Laurie Metcalf Biography, Age, Husband, Feet, Lesbian, TV Shows, News.

Biography

Laurie Metcalf born Laura Elizabeth Metcalf is an American actress.The receiver of several acting awards and nominations, she has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and has been nominated at the Golden Globe Awards and Academy Awards in her four-decade career.

Laurie Metcalf Age

She was born June 16, 1955 in Carbondale, Illinois. She is 68 years old as of 2023.

Laurie Metcalf Family

She is the oldest of three children of Libby (Mars), a librarian, and James Metcalf, a budget director.

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Husband | Jeff Perry |Kids |Zoe Perry

She has been married twice. Her first marriage was with Jeff Perry who is an actor and co- founding member of Steppenwolf Theater Company.

Their relationship lasted for just nine years from 1983-1992. Had one daughter, Zoe Perry who is an actress and featured in many movies and TV series like Young Sheldon, The Family, and Roseann.

Laurie Metcalf Children

 She has four children: Zoe Perry, Mae Akins Roth, Will Theron Roth, Donovan Roth

Career

Mecalf attended Illinois State University and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theater in 1976. while at the university she met fellow students and went ahead to establish Chicago’s famed Steppenwolf Theater Company.

She then stated her professional career at Steepenwolf, of which she was a charter member.

Metcalf went to New York to appear in an off-Broadway Steppenwolf production of Balm in Gilead for which she received Obie Award Actress in 1984. later on she relocated to New York City and started to work in both film and theater.

2009

Through June 2009, Metcalf starred with French Stewart in Justin Tanner’s play, Voice Lessons, in Hollywood before beginning rehearsals to play Kate Jerome in the Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound.

The former production’s run, however, lasted for 9 performances in October 2009, while the latter was canceled prior to opening.
voice Lessons, went on to three more runs- one Off-Broadway in May 2010, another in Hollywood in May 2011 and another in Chicago in May 2016.

In September 2010, Metcalf returned to Steppenwolf and starred in Lisa D’Amours;s play, Detroit.
March 2011, she appeared Off-Broadway in The Other Place by Sharr White .

She won the 2011 Lucille Lortel Award, outstanding Lead Actress and the 2011 Obie Award, Performance for The Other Place.
In 2012, Metcalf joined David Suchet in a West End production of Eufene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, for which she was nominated for the Evening Standard Theater Award for Best Actress.

In October 2013, Metcalf performed with Jeff Goldblum in Domesticated, she was nominated for the 2014 Lucille Lortel Award,outstanding Lead Actress in a play.

Metcalf returned to Broadway in A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath, which opened in April 2017.she received critical acclaim for her performance and earned nominations for the Tony Award for Actress in a Play, the Drama Desk Award, the Drama League Award for her distinguished performance, and the outer Critics Circle Actress, winning the Tony award.

She returned to Broadway in the 2018 revival of Three Tall Women. she won her consecutive Tony time for Best Featured Actress in a play.

Laurie Metcalf Movies

Laurie Metcalf TV Shows

Net Worth

Metcalf has an estimated  net worth of $14 million dollars as of 2023.

Laurie Metcalf Roseanne

Roseanne is an American television sitcom starring Roseanne Barr. It revolves around the fictional Conner family. Metcalf is starred as Jackie Harris.

Laurie Metcalf Awards

Metcalf played the role of Jackie Harris On Roseann for which she won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a comedy series.

Laurie Metcalf Big Bang Theory

She starred in the film as Mary Cooper.

Mensa-fied best friends and roommates Leonard and Sheldon, physicists who work at the California Institute of Technology, may be able to tell everybody more than they want to know about quantum physics, but getting through most basic social situations, especially ones involving women, totally baffles them.

How lucky, then, that babe-alicious waitress/aspiring actress Penny moves in next door. Frequently seen hanging out with Leonard and Sheldon are friends and fellow Caltech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. Will worlds collide? Does Einstein theorize in the woods?
First episode date: 24 September 2007
Theme song: Big Bang Theory Theme

Laurie Metcalf Young

She plays this poor young thing that comes to the big city and hangs out at this greasy spoon diner where the play is set—is talking about her once boyfriend who is an albino.

Laurie Metcalf Uncle Buck

It is a comedy film, Laurie starrs as Marcie Dahlgren-Frost in it.
When Cindy (Elaine Bromka) and her husband, Bob (Garrett M. Brown), have to leave town for a family emergency, there is only one person available to babysit for their three kids: Bob’s lazy, carefree brother, Buck (John Candy).

While he immediately gets along with the two younger children (Gaby Hoffman, Macaulay Culkin), Buck must change his bachelor lifestyle if he wants to be a responsible caregiver for the angst-filled teenager, Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly).
Initial release: 16 August 1989 (USA)
Director: John Hughes

Laurie Metcalf Desperate Housewives

She portrayed the role of Carolyn Bigsby on Desperate Housewives.

Laurie Metcalf Grey’s Anatomy

She played the role of Beatrice, a woman who lies to her daughter about the severity of her cancer diagnosis.

Plastic Surgery

She did her plastic surgery and looked much more younger than her age. She looked like a 15-18 year old yet she was in her 60’s.

Laurie Metcalf Mae Akins Roth

Mae Akins Roth, Laurie Metcalf and Zoe Perry attended Miscast 2018 Honors Laurie Metcalf at Hammerstein Ballroom on March 26, 2018 in New York City.

Lesbian

She played a role of a lesbian in the film Lady Bird. Starred as Marion McPherson.

Laurie Metcalf Snl

she was featured on the Aril 11 1981 episode this makes her the shortest-tenured actor to appear in the SNL cast, except for Emily Prager, who was also credited for that episode but did not appear at all.

Laurie Metcalf Instagram

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News

Laurie Metcalf On “Lady Bird,” Lesbian Roles, And What You Won’t See In The “Roseanne” Revival 

Update: 1/12/2018

Lady Bird has been lavished with accolades. You’ve won numerous critics’ awards, and you’ve been nominated for a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for your performance. Has it all gone straight to your head?
It’s made me a completely different person. [Laughs] No, but I couldn’t be happier, because it was such a personal movie for everyone involved. Greta really set the tone and made it feel like it belonged to all of us.

You’re primarily recognized as a television and theater actress. How does it feel to be lauded for a film role?
It does feel different. I feel like I’m sitting at the adult table all of a sudden, and I’m just trying to soak it all in.

Odds

What are the odds, the first time you stick your toe back into film after quite a few years, that it’s received in such a magnificent way? I’ve been lucky many times in my career to be in the right place at the right time.

Marion in Lady Bird is memorably described by another character as simultaneously warm and scary. Is that a fair assessment?
I wasn’t necessarily going for that, but that’s how Greta envisioned and wrote the character, so I think the audience sees that line as a pretty apt description.

The mother-daughter scenes are very antagonistic, because they’re both stubborn and they know how to push each other’s buttons. But there are also moments of heart layered throughout the movie, and a little of that softness goes a long way.

Passion

Could you relate to that complicated and contentious mother-daughter relationship?
Yeah, I related to the passion of some of those mother-daughter fights, because I’ve had teenagers in my house at different times.

It was really jarring when I watched the movie, hearing my character say certain things to her daughter that I knew were meant to be supportive and kind, but they came out as the antitheses of that.

It’s shocking how that can happen with your kids in the heat of battle.

The audience gets to know Lady Bird as she makes the transition from high school to college. What were you like when you headed off to Illinois State University?

Auditions

I wasn’t as rebellious or ambitious as Lady Bird, and I didn’t have her wanderlust. I was content to stay in Illinois for college, just venturing about 150 miles north of where I grew up in Edwardsville.

Am very shy and a bit of a hermit, so getting up the nerve to audition for theater was always the crack in the door that helped me meet people and be more social.

Sounds like you were a snooze.
[Laughs] Yeah, I was extremely boring. Even still, if I had my druthers, I would just stay home wearing pajamas all day long.

Among Lady Bird’s rites of passage, she falls for a boy who turns out to be gay. Did that ever happen to you?
Oh, sure. When you’re in the arts, I think that’s probably a given. Because you meet these guys who are funny, caring, passionate, and actually want to hang out with you. What could be better than that?

LGBT

What was your introduction to the LGBT community?
In my little theater group at ISU, and then certainly as I expanded into Steppenwolf in Chicago, my eyes were opened up to all different kinds of people that just weren’t available to me while growing up in my tiny Southern Illinois town.

I was a fish out of water, so it was a real learning experience.

In the 1990 thriller Internal Affairs you played Sgt. Amy Wallace, a lesbian character that film critics and historians have praised as remarkably sympathetic and respectful for the era. Did it feel revolutionary at the time?
I don’t remember it being a big deal because I was on the inside looking out, just doing an interesting role. The backstory is that the part was written for a man, but then I met with the director, Mike Figgis, who wonderfully decided to give it to a woman.

It would’ve been a throwaway part otherwise, but by changing the sex and sexuality, suddenly it became crucial and unique. I was thrilled to do it.

Prescient

You also played a lesbian speechwriter in David Mamet’s November, which opened on Broadway in 2008, opposite Nathan Lane as a president who’s a racist, sexist, dimwitted homophobe. That was rather prescient, wasn’t it?
Oh, I’d love to see that revived now. Isn’t it time? I got such a kick out of playing that character—she was really the heart of the play.

Speaking of revivals, you’re returning to the role of Jackie Harris for the upcoming 10th season of Roseanne.

In the 1997 series finale, Roseanne, who has two gay siblings in real life, revealed in a voiceover that she’d fictionalized much of the story and that Jackie was actually a lesbian. Did that surprise you?

No, not at all. People ultimately like Jackie and wish her well, but she was always flip-flopping, struggling to find herself, struggling to find a job, and struggling to find a relationship that worked. So it made sense in the finale that Roseanne would see Jackie the way she did.

There were hints, of course, like the scene in which Roseanne describes lesbians as wearing flannel shirts and faded jeans, and that’s exactly what Jackie has on.
[Laughs] I remember that. I loved that scene.

Revelations

Did those finale revelations influence your performance when you revisited the character?
In the pilot of the new season, we had to address everything that happened during that last season—winning the lottery, Dan dying, Jackie coming out.

The challenge was finding a way to justify all that and then move on. What we’re doing now is a throwback to the old family dynamics.

So no girlfriends for Jackie.
No. But we’re lucky to have Sandra Bernhard back, so there’s still LGBT representation on the show.

You’ve been involved with other LGBT-inclusive projects, like when you played the mom of a gay son in the short-lived sitcom The McCarthys.

Unhinged

But when my friends and I dissect your career over cocktails, the characters most often discussed are Mrs. Loomis in Scream 2, Carolyn Bigsby in Desperate Housewives, and your Annie Wilkes in Broadway’s Misery. I guess we like you unhinged.
I know, right? When you listed those characters, all I could picture was me wide-eyed and wielding a weapon, half-cocked and set loose! I have so much fun playing mad, unpredictable women, so I’m thrilled to know those characters come up in conversation.

The support from the LGBT audience is really comforting to me. To be chosen by them is very flattering, because it’s such a discerning group.

You’ve won a Tony and three Emmys. If you were to win an Oscar for Lady Bird, how would you earn a Grammy to achieve EGOT status?
I don’t know! I’ve always wished that I could sing. I’d love to do a musical, because I just want to know that feeling, that rush of having the orchestra behind me as I interpret a song and belt it. But I can’t sing. I guess I’ll have to skim the list of categories to see how I can get a Grammy without singing.

There’s always the Best Spoken Word Album category.
I’ll take it.

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