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Dana Robins Ivey is an American actress. She is a five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, and won the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Her film appearances include The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), The Addams Family (1991), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Rush Hour 3 (2007), and The Help (2011).
Birth Name
Dana Robins Ivey
Born
Tuesday, 12 August 1941
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021 |
| Ocean's Eight | Diana | 2018 |
| The Leisure Seeker | Lillian | 2018 |
| Odd Mom Out | Mrs. Hardwick | 2015 |
| We'll Never Have Paris | Francoise | 2014 |
| Madam Secretary | Nelly Conlon | 2014 |
| Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | Mrs. Paige | 2013 |
| The Help | Gracie Higginbotham | 2011 |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Miss Prism | 2011 |
| Boardwalk Empire | Mrs. McGarry | 2010 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021 |
| Ocean's Eight | Diana | 2018 |
| The Leisure Seeker | Lillian | 2018 |
| Odd Mom Out | Mrs. Hardwick | 2015 |
| We'll Never Have Paris | Francoise | 2014 |
| Madam Secretary | Nelly Conlon | 2014 |
| Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | Mrs. Paige | 2013 |
| The Help | Gracie Higginbotham | 2011 |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Miss Prism | 2011 |
| Boardwalk Empire | Mrs. McGarry | 2010 |
| The Big C | Nan | 2010 |
| Did You Hear About the Morgans? | Trish Pinger | 2009 |
| Ghost Town | Marjorie Pickthall | 2008 |
| The Return of Jezebel James | Molly | 2008 |
| Rush Hour 3 | Sister Agnes | 2007 |
| Broken English | Elinor Gregory | 2007 |
| The 61st Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 2007 |
| Ugly Betty | Roberta | 2006 |
| A Very Serious Person | Betty | 2006 |
| The 59th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 2005 |
| Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Congresswoman Libby Hauser / Libby Hauser | 2003 |
| Two Weeks Notice | Ruth Kelson | 2002 |
| Monk | Mrs. Eels | 2002 |
| Orange County | Vera Gantner | 2002 |
| 100 Centre Street | Dr. Camille Willoughby | 2001 |
| The Kid | Dr. Alexander | 2000 |
| Mumford | Mrs. Crisp | 1999 |
| A Lesson Before Dying | Edna Guidry | 1999 |
| Walking Across Egypt | Beatrice Vernon | 1999 |
| The Impostors | Mrs. Essendine | 1998 |
| Simon Birch | Grandmother Wenteworth | 1998 |
| Sex and the City | Trudy Stork | 1998 |
| Oz | Patricia Nathan | 1997 |
| The 51st Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1997 |
| The Practice | Judge Natalie Brown | 1997 |
| Theater Talk | Self - Guest | 1996 |
| Sabrina | Mack | 1995 |
| The Scarlet Letter | Meredith Stonehall | 1995 |
| Addams Family Values | Margaret Addams | 1993 |
| Frasier | Ms. Langer | 1993 |
| Sleepless in Seattle | Claire | 1993 |
| Guilty as Sin | Judge D. Tompkins / Judge Tompkins | 1993 |
| Class of '61 | Mrs. Julia Peyton | 1993 |
| The Adventures of Huck Finn | Widow Douglas | 1993 |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | Margie Bolander | 1993 |
| Home Alone 2: Lost in New York | Desk Clerk | 1992 |
| A Child Lost Forever: the Jerry Sherwood Story | Lois Jurgens | 1992 |
| HBO First Look | Self | 1992 |
| The Addams Family | Margaret Alford / Margaret Addams | 1991 |
| Postcards from the Edge | Wardrobe Mistress | 1990 |
| Law & Order | Ms. Shore | 1990 |
| B.L. Stryker | Gabrielle Harwood | 1989 |
| Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Mrs. Reed | 1988 |
| Another Woman | Engagement Party Guest | 1988 |
| American Experience | Quaker Woman | 1988 |
| The Appointments of Dennis Jennings | Newscaster | 1988 |
| Easy Street | Eleanor Standard | 1986 |
| Heartburn | Wedding Speaker | 1986 |
| The Color Purple | Miss Millie | 1985 |
| Explorers | Mrs. Müller | 1985 |
| The 38th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1984 |
| Little Gloria... Happy at Last | 1982 | |
| American Playhouse | Yvonne / Naomi Eisen | 1982 |
| Working in the Theatre | Self | 1976 |
| The Beachcomber | Kahlana | 1962 |
