Education
She attended Middlebury College in Vermont and acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Early in life, her interest was in riding and tending to horses on the East Coast and in Ireland.
She attended Middlebury College in Vermont and acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Early in life, her interest was in riding and tending to horses on the East Coast and in Ireland.
Plummer began appearing in small to mid size roles in television and films in the early 1980s. Her first movie was Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981), followed by The World According to Garp (1982), Daniel (1983), and The Hotel New Hampshire (1984). However, Plummer's major first successes came from her stage work. She made her Broadway debut as Josephine in the 1981 revival of A Taste of Honey. She won a Tony Award nomination and Theatre World Award for her portrayal. The following year, she won a Tony Award for Featured Actress and a Drama Desk Award for her portrayal of Sister Agnes in the play Agnes of God. In 1983 she portrayed Laura Wingfield opposite Jessica Tandy's Amanda Wingfield in the Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie. Her other Broadway performances include Dolly Clandon in You Never Can Tell (1986) and Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (1987), for the latter of which she received a third Tony Award nomination.
Filmography
Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)
The World According to Garp (1982)
Daniel (1983)
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
The Dollmaker (1984)
Static (1986)
Courtship (1987)
Made in Heaven (1987)
Prisoners of Inertia (1989)
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
The Fisher King (1991)
Freejack (1992)
Miss Rose White (1992)
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
Needful Things (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Butterfly Kiss (1995)
Nostradamus (1995)
The Final Cut (1995)
The Prophecy (1995)
Drunks (1995)
Dead Girl (1996)
Freeway (1996)
The Right To Remain Silent (1996)
Don't Look Back (1996)
American Perfekt (1997)
Hercules (1997) (voice) - (The Fates)
A Simple Wish (1997)
You Can Thank Me Later (1998)
L.A. Without a Map (1998)
Hysteria (1998)
October 22 (1998)
8½ Women (1999)
The Apartment Complex (1999)
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
Seven Days to Live (2000)
The Gray in Between (2002)
Triggermen (2002)
Get a Clue (2002)
Ken Park (2002)
My Life Without Me (2003)
Mimic 3: Sentinel (2003)
Satan's Little Helper (2004)
WordGirl (2007) (voice)
Inconceivable (2008)
Red (2008)
Affinity (2008)
45 R.P.M. (2008)
The Making of Plus One (2009)
Sophomore (2009)
Following her successes on the stage, she began appearing on television and in feature films. She appeared on Los Angeles Law as Alice Hackett, a developmentally disabled girlfriend of Benny Stulwitz (played by Larry Drake), for which she received an Emmy Award nomination. In 1996 she won an Emmy for her guest appearance on the episode "Stitch in Time" of the Outer Limits,[4] In 2005, she also won an Emmy for her role as Miranda Cole in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode Weak, in which she played a schizophrenic. Two other well-known roles were Yolanda (a.k.a. "Honey Bunny") in Pulp Fiction and Rose in So I Married An Axe Murderer. In 1988, she played an eccentric school teacher in Gryphon, an especially memorable episode of the Public Broadcasting Service series WonderWorks.
Plummer was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of actors Tammy Grimes and Christopher Plummer
