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Elizabeth Perkins (born November 18, 1960) is a well-known American movie,
television and theater actress.
She was born in Queens, New York, and was raised in Vermont. After finishing
high school she spent three years in Chicago taking acting lessons at the
famous Goodman School of Drama. Back in New York in 1984, she did her first
theater performance. Thereafter she worked in several ensembles and has
since then considered theater playing as a priority of her career.
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She was listed as one of the twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John
Willis' Screen World. The actress of Greek origin since then has landed
numerious well known roles in big production movies.
As a movie actress she made her film debut in 1986 in Edward Zwick's About
Last Night.... She then had her breakthrough starring with Tom Hanks in Big.
She then received critical acclaim for her performance in Barry Levinson's
Avalon. Of all the films she has acted in, her biggest success so far has
been however The Flintstones, starring also John Goodman, in which she plays
the long-suffering Wilma Flintstone.
In 1993 Perkins made her television debut in For Their Own Good. She starred
thereafter in the comedy series Battery Park and If These Walls Could Talk,
and has since then played roles in television films on a regular basis.
Recently, Perkins appeared as a psychiatrist in the 2005 suspense thriller,
The Ring Two, starring Naomi Watts. Perkins currently plays Celia Hodges,
upstanding PTA mother, alongside Mary-Louise Parker and Justin Kirk on the
new Showtime series Weeds. Thanks to her work on Weeds, Perkins has received
a 2006 Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series,
Miniseries or Made for TV Motion Picture.
Perkins' first husband was Terry Kinney, from whom she divorced. In 2000 she
married her present husband, Julio Macat. |
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