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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 13, 1951
Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA
Also Known As
- Jean E. Smart
- Jean Elizabeth Smart
- 진 스마트
- ジーン･スマート
- ジーン・エリザベス・スマート
- Джин Смарт
- جین اسمارت
Jean Smart
3.1 Popularity
Biography
Jean Elizabeth Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress. She has received numerous accolades including five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, four Critics' Choice Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for a Tony Award and a Grammy Award. Smart first gained prominence for her leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, in which she starred from 1986 to 1991. She went on to win five Primetime Emmy Awards for her roles as Lana Gardner in the NBC series Frasier (2000–01), Regina Newley in the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–09), and Deborah Vance in the HBO Max comedy series Hacks (2021–present). She was Emmy-nominated for her roles in The District (2000–04), 24 (2006–07), Harry's Law (2011), Fargo (2015), Watchmen (2019) and Mare of Easttown (2021). She also acted in FX's Legion (2017–2019) and voiced Ann Possible in the Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible (2002–2007). On stage, she made her Broadway debut portraying Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf (1981). She returned to Broadway in the revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000) for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Smart's film credits include The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Garden State (2004), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Accountant (2016), A Simple Favor (2018), and Babylon (2022). She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Guinevere (1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Smart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
6.8
Narrator (voice)
E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
2025
10.0
Self - Presenter
Garden State - The 20th Anniversary Concert
2025
7.5
Self
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025
7.6
Jean Smart
The Studio
2025
2.0
Self
A Panoramic Canvas Called Babylon
2023
7.4
Peg
Wildflower
2023
7.4
Elinor St. John
Babylon
2022
9.5
Self
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022
7.5
Deborah Vance
Hacks
2021
8.2
Helen Fahey
Mare of Easttown
2021
Credits
E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
as Narrator (voice)
2025
6.8
Garden State - The 20th Anniversary Concert
as Self - Presenter
2025
10.0
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
as Self
2025
7.5
The Studio
as Jean Smart
2025
7.6
A Panoramic Canvas Called Babylon
as Self
2023
2.0
Wildflower
as Peg
2023
7.4
Babylon
as Elinor St. John
2022
7.4
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
as Self
2022
9.5
Hacks
as Deborah Vance
2021
7.5
Mare of Easttown
as Helen Fahey
2021
8.2
Senior Moment
as Caroline Summers
2021
5.7
Superintelligence
as President Monahan
2020
6.0
🎬
The 52nd Annual Emmy Awards
as Self - Presenter
2020
0.0
Mad About You
as Chelsea Stevens-Kobolakis
2019
8.0
Watchmen
as Laurie Blake
2019
7.6
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
A Shoe Addict's Christmas
as Charlie
2018
6.2
Dirty John
as Arlane Hart
2018
6.8
Brampton's Own
as Judy
2018
4.4
Life Itself
as Linda Dempsey
2018
7.2
A Simple Favor
as Margaret McLanden
2018
6.6
The Messenger
as The Woman
2018
0.0
Big Mouth
as Depression Kitty (voice)
2017
7.6
Big Mouth
2017
7.6
Awaken the Shadowman
as Evette
2017
3.7
Legion
as Melanie Bird
2017
7.5
The Accountant
as Rita Blackburn
2016
7.1
Bad Internet
as President Powers
2016
6.8
Getting Ed Laid
as The Hooker
2016
1.0
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
as Self
2016
0.0
Angie Tribeca
as Carnie
2016
6.4
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2015
5.3
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Miss Meadows
as Mother Meadows
2014
5.9
Halt and Catch Fire
as LouLu Lutherford
2014
7.9
Fargo
as Floyd Gerhardt
2014
8.3
Sirens
as Nora Farrell
2014
6.9
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
5.3
Warren
as Claire Cavanee
2014
5.0
Getting On
as Arlene Willy-Weller
2013
6.3
When Calls the Heart
as Frances Tunnecliffe
2013
6.6
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
as Claire
2013
6.9
Waking
as Dr. Hinton
2013
5.4
Hope Springs
as Eileen, Kay's Friend
2012
6.2
William & Catherine: A Royal Romance
as HRH Camilla
2012
5.4
Veep
as Imogene Walsh
2012
7.5
Harry's Law
as Roseanna Remmick
2011
7.3
Woke Up Dead
as Meryl Greene
2010
4.3
Life As We Know It
as Helen Berenson (uncredited)
2010
6.9
$#*! My Dad Says
as Rosemary Pernworth
2010
6.1
Hawaii Five-0
as Governor Pat Jameson
2010
7.8
Hot in Cleveland
as Bess
2010
7.3
Barry Munday
as Carol Munday
2010
5.7
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2010
6.6
Youth in Revolt
as Estelle Twisp
2009
6.2
Hero Wanted
as Melanie McQueen
2008
5.3
Samantha Who?
as Regina Newly
2007
6.5
Lucky You
as Michelle Carson
2007
5.6
Psych
as Gillian Tucker
2006
7.9
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
as Dr. Ann Possible (voice)
2005
6.9
A Very Married Christmas
as Ellen Griffin
2004
4.8
Center of the Universe
as Kate Barnett
2004
7.0
I ♥ Huckabees
as Mrs. Hooten
2004
6.3
Garden State
as Carol
2004
7.1
Balto III: Wings of Change
as Stella (voice)
2004
6.7
Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time
as Dr. Ann Possible (voice)
2003
6.7
Arrested Development
as Mimi
2003
7.9
Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong
as Agent Candice DeLong
2003
6.7
The Designing Women Reunion
2003
0.0
Audrey's Rain
as Audrey Walker
2003
3.3
Bringing Down the House
as Kate Sanderson
2003
6.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Sweet Home Alabama
as Stella Kay Perry
2002
6.4
In-Laws
as Marlene Pellet
2002
6.0
Kim Possible
as Dr. Ann Possible (voice)
2002
7.5
Kim Possible
as Dr. Ann Possible / Tutor Woman (voice)
2002
7.5
Kim Possible
as Dr. Anne Possible (voice)
2002
7.5
24
as Martha Logan
2001
7.8
The Oblongs
as Pickles Oblong (voice)
2001
7.3
The District
as Sherry Regan
2000
6.8
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Lorraine Sheldon
2000
10.0
Static Shock
as Richie's Mom (voice)
2000
8.1
The Kid
as Deirdre Lefever
2000
6.7
Snow Day
as Laura Brandston
2000
5.1
Forever Fabulous
as Loreli Daly
1999
3.5
Guinevere
as Deborah Sloane
1999
5.7
Change of Heart
as Elaine Marshall
1998
4.8
The Odd Couple II
as Holly
1998
6.3
Style & Substance
as Chelsea Stevens
1998
0.0
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.3
Hey Arnold!
as Phoebe's Mother (voice)
1996
8.0
Undue Influence
as Dana Colby
1996
5.5
Steve Martini's Undue Influence
1996
0.0
Edie & Pen
as Wendy the Waitress
1996
5.6
High Society
as Ellie Walker
1995
6.0
A Stranger in Town
as Rose
1995
6.0
The Brady Bunch Movie
as Mrs. Dena Dittmeyer
1995
6.1
Scarlett
as Sally Brewton
1994
6.5
The Yearling
as Ory Baxter
1994
5.5
The Yarn Princess
as Margaret Thomas
1994
6.4
Frasier
as Lorna Lynley
1993
7.7
Frasier
as Lana Gardner
1993
7.7
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
as Kate
1993
7.0
Just My Imagination
as Pally Thompson
1992
2.0
Batman: The Animated Series
as Helen Ventrix (voice)
1992
8.6
Mistress
as Patricia Riley
1992
5.5
Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story
as Aileen Wuornos
1992
2.2
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
as Cathy
1991
8.0
A Seduction in Travis County
as Karen
1991
1.0
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
🎬
A Place at the Table
as Susan Singer
1988
1.0
Project X
as Dr. Criswell
1987
6.3
A Fight for Jenny
as Valerie Thomas
1986
7.0
Designing Women
as Charlene Frazier Stillfield
1986
6.8
Fire with Fire
as Sister Maria
1986
6.2
Lime Street
1985
5.5
Protocol
as Ella
1984
5.5
Single Bars, Single Women
as Virge
1984
0.0
Piaf
as Marlene
1984
0.0
Flashpoint
as Doris
1984
6.2
Reggie
as Joan Reynolds
1983
0.0
Goodnight, Beantown
1983
5.5
Remington Steele
as Gloria Blyer
1982
7.1
Teachers Only
as Shari Kirkland
1982
5.0
Hoodlums
as Carol
1980
3.7
Before and After
as Woman Bather
1979
2.3
The Facts of Life
as Ellen Slater
1979
7.1
Alice
1976
7.1
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
The Emmy Awards
as Self - Winner
1949
7.9
The Emmy Awards
as Self
1949
7.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
🎬
Miss Macy
as Miss Macy
N/A
0.0
🎬
42.6 Years
N/A
0.0
Too Good
as God
N/A
0.0