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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 14, 1943
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Holland Virginia Taylor
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Holland Taylor
3.5 Popularity
Biography
Holland Virginia Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress. She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC's The Practice (1998–2003). For her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–15), she received a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Taylor's other notable television credits include starring roles on the sitcoms Bosom Buddies (1980–82), The Powers That Be (1992–93) and The Naked Truth (1995–98). She also appeared as Jill Ollinger on the soap opera All My Children (1981–83), as Peggy Peabody on The L Word (2004–08), and as Ida Silver on Mr. Mercedes (2017–19). In 2020, she received critical praise and her eighth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ellen Kincaid in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood. Taylor's feature film credits include Romancing the Stone (1984) and its sequel (1985), Alice (1990), To Die For (1995), One Fine Day (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), The Truman Show (1998), Happy Accidents (2000), Keeping the Faith (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), The Wedding Date (2005), Baby Mama (2008), Gloria Bell (2018), Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), and The Stand In (2020). Taylor wrote and starred in the one-woman play, Ann, based on the life and work of Ann Richards. For this, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holland Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
6.5
Toni
Motherland
2025
🎬
1.0
Fantasy Life
2025
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Little Pageant That Could
2024
6.7
Francine
Quiz Lady
2023
7.8
Self
Adele One Night Only
2021
6.5
Joan Hambling
The Chair
2021
7.0
Goldie (voice)
The Great North
2021
5.3
Barbara Cox
The Stand In
2020
5.9
The Great Leader
Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020
7.2
Ellen Kincaid
Hollywood
2020
Credits
Motherland
as Toni
2025
6.5
🎬
Fantasy Life
2025
1.0
The Little Pageant That Could
as Self (archive footage)
2024
0.0
Quiz Lady
as Francine
2023
6.7
Adele One Night Only
as Self
2021
7.8
The Chair
as Joan Hambling
2021
6.5
The Great North
as Goldie (voice)
2021
7.0
The Stand In
as Barbara Cox
2020
5.3
Bill & Ted Face the Music
as The Great Leader
2020
5.9
Hollywood
as Ellen Kincaid
2020
7.2
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
0.0
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
as Stormy
2020
6.8
Bombshell
as Faye (uncredited)
2019
6.8
The Morning Show
as Cybil Richards
2019
7.7
Gloria Bell
as Hillary Bell
2019
6.0
Ann
as Ann Richards
2018
4.0
The Orville
as Jeannie Mercer
2017
7.6
Mr. Mercedes
as Ida Silver
2017
7.1
Kepler's Dream
as Violet von Stern
2016
5.0
Speechless
as Andrea
2016
7.0
🎬
Divorce: The Greatest Hits
2016
0.0
The New Yorker Presents
as Truman's Moher
2016
6.8
Billions
as Dr. Eleanor Mayer
2016
7.8
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Electric City
as Voice Actor (voice)
2012
6.5
Twinkle Toes
as Principal Garfield (voice)
2011
6.0
The Chosen One
as Ruth
2010
4.4
Baby Mama
as Rose
2008
6.0
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
as Prudence (voice)
2007
6.5
D.E.B.S.
as Ms. Petrie
2005
6.5
American Dad!
as Mrs. Dawson (voice)
2005
7.0
The Wedding Date
as Bunny
2005
6.8
The L Word
as Peggy Peabody
2004
7.6
Two and a Half Men
as Evelyn Harper
2003
7.4
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
as Grandmother
2003
5.1
🎬
E!'s 101
as Self
2003
0.0
Fillmore!
as Mrs. Cornwall (voice)
2002
7.4
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
as Grandmother
2002
5.7
Monk
as Peggy Davenport
2002
8.0
Home Room
as Dr. Hollander
2002
6.8
Baby Bob
as Madeline Collins
2002
10.0
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
as Prudence (voice)
2002
6.1
🎬
Fits and Starts
2002
0.0
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Nancy Reagan
2001
6.4
Legally Blonde
as Professor Stromwell
2001
6.8
Town & Country
as Mistress of Ceremonies
2001
4.4
DAG
as Kathering Twigg
2000
7.0
Strong Medicine
as Lillian Pynchon
2000
7.3
The Deadly Look of Love
as Evelyn McGinnis
2000
3.7
Big Brother
as Self - Actress, 'Two & a ½ Men'
2000
4.9
Keeping the Faith
as Bonnie Rose
2000
6.1
Mail to the Chief
as Katherine Horner
2000
5.7
The Spiral Staircase
as Emma
2000
5.1
Happy Accidents
as Therapist
2000
6.8
The Lot
as Letitia DeVine
1999
0.5
The Sex Monster
as Muriel
1999
5.2
The Unknown Cyclist
as Celia (uncredited)
1998
4.3
Hercules
as Queen Myrrha (voice)
1998
6.9
Next Stop Wonderland
as Piper Castleton
1998
5.9
The Truman Show
as Angela Montclair / Alanis Montclair
1998
8.2
🎬
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
as Alanis Montclair
1998
6.7
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
6.7
Veronica's Closet
as Millicent
1997
5.2
Ally McBeal
as Judge Roberta Kittleson
1997
6.6
George of the Jungle
as Beatrice Stanhope
1997
5.6
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as Self
1997
6.6
The Practice
as Judge Roberta Kittleson
1997
7.6
Just Write
as Emma Jeffreys
1997
5.2
Betty
as Crystal Ball
1997
2.0
One Fine Day
as Rita
1996
6.4
Last Summer in the Hamptons
as Davis Mora Axelrod
1995
5.5
How to Make an American Quilt
as Mrs. Rubens
1995
6.4
Steal Big Steal Little
as Mona Rowland-Downey
1995
4.3
To Die For
as Carol Stone
1995
6.6
The Naked Truth
as Camilla Dane
1995
6.4
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
as Janice
1995
7.5
Awake to Danger
as Dr. Joyce Lindley
1995
6.0
A Walton Wedding
as Aunt Flo
1995
0.0
ER
as Phyllis Farr
1994
7.8
The Favor
as Maggie Sand
1994
4.8
The Counterfeit Contessa
as Wallace Everett
1994
5.6
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
as Florence Newsom
1994
6.5
Betrayal of Trust
as Mary Shelton
1994
6.0
Diagnosis: Murder
as Agent Gretchen McCord
1993
7.1
Saved by the Bell: The College Years
as Dean Susan McMann
1993
6.8
🎬
With Hostile Intent
as Lois Baxter
1993
6.0
Cop & ½
as Captain Rubio
1993
4.5
The Powers That Be
as Margaret Powers
1992
8.3
The Rape of Doctor Willis
as Dr. Greenway
1991
4.5
Alice
as Helen
1990
6.3
Going Places
1990
5.5
People Like Us
as Dolly
1990
4.3
She's Having a Baby
as Sarah Briggs
1988
5.9
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
as Ernestine King
1987
6.8
Wiseguy
1987
6.5
CBS Summer Playhouse
as Fran Grogan
1987
6.3
The Saint in Manhattan
as Fran Grogan
1987
0.0
🎬
Harry
1987
5.0
Perry Mason Returns
as Paula Gordon
1985
7.0
Key Exchange
as Mrs. Fanshaw
1985
4.2
The Jewel of the Nile
as Gloria
1985
6.2
🎬
Me & Mom
1985
5.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Winifred Thayer
1984
7.5
Romancing the Stone
as Gloria
1984
6.8
Kate & Allie
1984
5.9
I Was a Mail Order Bride
as Dottie Birmingham
1982
5.6
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
as Frances Shand Kydd
1982
4.7
My Mother Was Never a Kid
as Felicia Martin
1981
0.0
Bosom Buddies
as Ruth Dunbar
1980
6.4
Fame
as Claudia van Doren (uncredited)
1980
6.4
O Youth and Beauty!
as Beverly Trencher
1979
10.0
The Sorrows of Gin
as Beverly Trencher
1979
10.0
The Love Boat
as Kathy Brighton
1977
6.3
The Next Man
as TV Interviewer
1976
4.4
Beacon Hill
as Marilyn Gardiner
1975
5.0
Kojak
as Elizabeth
1973
7.0
ABC Afterschool Special
as Felicia Martin
1972
6.4
J.T.
as Mrs. Arnold
1971
0.0
Great Performances
as Ernestine King
1971
5.8
The Edge of Night
1956
6.1
🎬
Brothers
as Ma Mac
N/A
0.0