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Multitalented MARTHA PLIMPTON has achieved success on stage, screen, and television. Plimpton made her film debut in Alan J. Pakula's Rollover. She has gone on to star in over 30 films including The Goonies, The Mosquito Coast, Running on Empty, Beautiful Girls, Parenthood, 200 Cigarettes, and Pecker. Currently, Plimpton can be seen in Top Girls for the Manhattan Theater Club, opposite Marisa Tomei, Elizabeth Marvel, and Mary Catherine Garrison. Her standout performance has garnered Plimpton a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play, as well as a Drama League nomination. Just prior, Plimpton portrayed 'Imogen' in Lincoln Center Theater's production of William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, opposite Michael Cerveris and Jonathan Cake. Last year, Plimpton starred with Ethan Hawke, Brian O'Byrne, Billy Crudup and Jennifer Ehle in Tom Stoppard's three-play, nine-hour epic, The Coast of Utopia, produced by the Lincoln Center. Her performance garnered her, a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress, and wins at both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Featured Actress. She followed that playing 'Helena' in The Public's Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Daniel Sullivan. In 2006, Plimpton starred opposite Oliver Platt and Brian O'Byrne in Conor McPherson's Shining City for Manhattan Theatre Club. This production, which received a Tony nomination, re-teamed her with acclaimed director Robert Falls. In 2005, Plimpton received rave reviews for her turn in Classic Stage Company's False Servant. Her portrayal of 'Chevalier' landed her a Drama League Award Nomination for Distinguished Performance. Next, she co-starred opposite Ethan Hawke and Bobby Cannavale for director Scott Elliot in David Rabe's contemporary classic Hurlyburly. Other theater credits include Hobson's Choice, for which she won the Obie Award and earned a Lucille Lortel Award nomination. Additional theatre credits are Broadway's Sixteen Wounded, Second Hand Memory, and The Libertine. As a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts Award. On television, Plimpton's memorable guest star role on Law & Order: SVU, garnered her performance an Emmy nomination.
Bio as of June, 2008.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Working in the Theatre (video)
Performance - April, 2004 - Watch now.
Downstage Center (audio)
Martha Plimpton - June, 2006 - Listen Now.
SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2007, 2008
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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