Martha Plimpton
Biography
Martha Campbell Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American singer, stage and screen actress, best known for playing the lead role of Virginia Chance on the television sitcom "Raising Hope", and for guest starring as Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife".
Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Grey's Anatomy
The Blacklist
Family Guy
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Good Wife
All Movies (54)
- This Ordinary Thing2025 · as Self (voice)
- Sovereign2025 · as Lesley Anne
- Sardinia2024 · as Judith
- Mass2021 · as Gail
- Pitch Black Panacea2020 · as Amy (voice)
- Frozen II2019 · as Yelena (voice)
- Honey Bee2018 · as Louise
- Hello Again2017 · as Ruth
- Company2011 · as Sarah
- Adventures in Plymptoons!2011 · as Self
- Small Town Murder Songs2010 · as Sam
- Remember Me2010 · as Alyssa Craig's Mom (uncredited)
- Marvelous2008 · as Gwen
- Dante's Inferno2007 · as Celia / Lobbyist Singer / Lizzie Borden (voice)
- Hair High2004 · as Miss Crumbles (voice)
- Searching for Debra Winger2002 · as Self
- The Sleepy Time Gal2001 · as Rebecca
- 200 Cigarettes1999 · as Monica
- The Defenders: Taking the First1998 · as MJ Preston
- Pecker1998 · as Tina
- Music from Another Room1998 · as Karen Swan
- The Defenders: Choice of Evils1998 · as Mary Jane Preston
- Independent's Day1998 · as Self
- Eye of God1997 · as Ainsley DuPree
- The Defenders: Payback1997 · as M.J. Preston
- Who Is Henry Jaglom?1997 · as Self
- Colin Fitz1997 · as Ann
- I'm Not Rappaport1996 · as Laurie Campbell
- I Shot Andy Warhol1996 · as Stevie
- Beautiful Girls1996 · as Jan
- Last Summer in the Hamptons1995 · as Chloe Garfield
- The Beans of Egypt, Maine1994 · as Earlene Pomerleau
- Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle1994 · as Jane Grant
- My Life's in Turnaround1994 · as Herself
- Josh & S.A.M.1993 · as Alison (The Liberty Maid)
- The Perfect Woman1993
- Chantilly Lace1993 · as Ann
- Daybreak1993 · as Laurie
- Samantha1992 · as Samantha
- Inside Monkey Zetterland1992 · as Sofie
- A Blink of Paradise1992 · as Mother
- A Woman at War1991 · as Helene Moszkiewiez
- Stanley & Iris1990 · as Kelly King
- Parenthood1989 · as Julie Buckman-Lampkin Higgins
- Silence Like Glass1989 · as Claudia Jacoby
- Another Woman1988 · as Laura
- Running on Empty1988 · as Lorna Phillips
- Stars & Bars1988 · as Bryant
- Shy People1987 · as Grace
- The Mosquito Coast1986 · as Emily Spellgood
- The Goonies1985 · as Stef
- The River Rat1984 · as Jonsy
- Rollover1981 · as Fewster's Older Daughter
- The Custom of the Country—
All TV Shows (40)
- Task2025 · as Kathleen McGinty
- Prime Target2025 · as Jane Torres
- A Town Called Malice2023 · as Mint Ma Lord
- Sprung2022 · as Barb
- The Man Who Fell to Earth2022 · as Intake Officer K. Faraday
- Genera+ion2021 · as Megan
- Reunited Apart2020 · as Self
- Flack2019 · as Clara
- The Shivering Truth2018 · as (voice)
- Minecraft: Story Mode2018 · as Olivia (voice)
- The Guest Book2017 · as Shelley
- Brockmire2017 · as Shirley
- Baroness von Sketch Show2016 · as Margo
- To Tell the Truth2016 · as Self - Panelist
- The Real O'Neals2016 · as Eileen O'Neal
- Younger2015 · as Cheryl Sussman
- The Blacklist2013 · as Dr. Sharon Fulton
- Raising Hope2010 · as Virginia Chance
- How to Make It in America2010
- The Good Wife2009 · as Patti Nyholm
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
- Fringe2008 · as Sheriff Ann Mathis
- Surface2005 · as Mr. Big
- Grey's Anatomy2005 · as Pam Michaelson
- Medium2005 · as Rosemary Widdick
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson2005 · as Self
- Karen Sisco2003
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show2003 · as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
- Hack2002 · as Louise O'Connor
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Jo Gage
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Claire Rinato
- Family Guy1999 · as Stephanie (voice)
- 7th Heaven1996 · as Venus
- ER1994 · as Meg Corwin
- Family Ties1982 · as Jessie Blake
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
- Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Nominee
- Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Performer
- East of Eden— · as Faye