Martha Plimpton

AKA: Martha Campbell Plimpton
1.6809

1970-11-16

New York City, New York, USA

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".

Crew Roles

Hair High
Associate Producer
Sparrows Dance
Thanks
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {91}

Julie Buckman-Lampkin Higgins

1989-07-31 6.7

Parenthood

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, t ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Emily Spellgood

1986-11-26 6.355

The Mosquito Coast

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Laura

1988-10-13 6.8

Another Woman

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the nex ...
Genre :Drama

Jane Grant

1994-09-07 5.8

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair. ...
Genre :Drama

Tina

1998-09-25 6.059

Pecker

A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful choice between his life and his art. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Stevie

1996-05-01 6.1

I Shot Andy Warhol

Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he ...
Genre :Drama

Stef

1985-06-07 7.512

The Goonies

Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demolition. However, on their quest to find the treasure, they r ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Family

Monica

1999-02-26 5.793

200 Cigarettes

In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ainsley DuPree

1997-10-17 5.7

Eye of God

A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff embarks on a quest to uncover the roots ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Fewster's Older Daughter

1981-10-11 5.1

Rollover

The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of his new bank stumble upon an international financial scheme that could lead to global economic collaps ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Laurie

1993-05-08 5.2

Daybreak

When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, TV Movie

Jonsy

1984-09-28 6.2

The River Rat

On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the whereabouts of the stolen loot, and those who come looking ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Family, Drama

Karen Swan

1998-04-24 5.6

Music from Another Room

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his n ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Lorna Phillips

1988-09-09 7.442

Running on Empty

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Crime

Alison (The Liberty Maid)

1993-11-24 4.7

Josh & S.A.M.

Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile, Josh tells Sam that he is a "S ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Comedy

Grace

1987-12-04 6.292

Shy People

A Cosmo Magazine journalist and her daughter leave New York City to visit their distant relatives deep in the bayous of Louisiana. ...
Genre :Drama

Sam

2010-09-14 5.269

Small Town Murder Songs

A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama

Herself

1994-06-17 4

My Life's in Turnaround

Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Mart ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Ann

1997-01-19 5

Colin Fitz

Two security guards, Paul and Grady, are hired to guard the grave of dead rock legend, Colin Fitz. Through the course of one bizarre night, these two opposites learn a lot about life, death, and the m ...
Genre :Comedy

Alyssa Craig's Mom (uncredited)

2010-03-11 7.099

Remember Me

Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mothe ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Sarah

2011-06-15 6.909

Company

Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slig ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Rebecca

2001-01-24 5.1

The Sleepy Time Gal

A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to find her birth mother. ...
Genre :Drama

Bryant

1988-03-18 4.275

Stars & Bars

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric. ...
Genre :Comedy

Samantha

1992-11-20 4

Samantha

A young woman sets out to find her birth parents when she finds out that she is adopted. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sofie

1992-09-12 2.95

Inside Monkey Zetterland

An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay. ...
Genre :Comedy

Chloe Garfield

1995-11-22 5.5

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Before she completes the sale, she wants to have one ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ann

1993-07-18 10

Chantilly Lace

A group of middle-aged women get together at a secluded house to learn about themselves. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

M.J. Preston

1997-10-12 2.7

The Defenders: Payback

Television movie remake of the 1960s courtroom drama series, "The Defenders." After the death of his eldest son and his partner in the law firm of Preston and Preston, senior partner, Lawrence Preston ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Helene Moszkiewiez

1991-08-10 4

A Woman at War

Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents arrested and her life destroyed. To fight back, Regine ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, War

Earlene Pomerleau

1994-11-23 5

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, ...
Genre :Drama

Claudia Jacoby

1989-07-06 6.6

Silence Like Glass

True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness. ...
Genre :Drama

1993-10-16 0

The Perfect Woman

The camera focuses up close on a series of unnamed women as they talk to their men. In every case, even though we don't hear what the men are saying, we know exactly what line and lie they're pitching ...
Genre :

Miss Crumbles (voice)

2004-04-17 6.4

Hair High

Rod and Cherri are the unmistakable king and queen of Echo High. When new kid Spud arrives, he makes a faux pas so bad that Rod forces him to be his girl's slave. What unfolds is the tale of Cherri an ...
Genre :Horror, Animation, Comedy, Music

Mary Jane Preston

1998-01-18 3.4

The Defenders: Choice of Evils

The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle - the accused is innocent untill proven guilty. This time, they defend a man wrongly convicted of murder. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Kelly King

1990-02-09 6.497

Stanley & Iris

An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Self

2011-05-30 2

Adventures in Plymptoons!

A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, critics, and fans. ...
Genre :Documentary

Mother

1992-01-17 0

A Blink of Paradise

"A Blink of Paradise" is a twelve minute investigation into the event that caused one woman's first memory. Obsessed by past images of herself as a baby in a carriage, she uncovers a simple fact conce ...
Genre :Drama

Jan

1996-02-09 6.636

Beautiful Girls

During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dream ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Lesley Anne

2025-07-11 6.8

Sovereign

Struggling single father Jerry indoctrinates his son Joe into the sovereign citizen movement, teaching him that laws are mere illusions and freedom is something you take. But, as Jerry’s ideology cons ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Gwen

2008-02-08 0

Marvelous

After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has suddenly acquired a special gift that enables her to make mechanical objects work again and also hea ...
Genre :

Ruth

2017-11-08 5.917

Hello Again

Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another's arms in a daisy-chained musical exploration of love's bittersweet embrace. A film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa's celebrated musical, originally b ...
Genre :Music, Drama, Romance

Self

1998-01-15 5

Independent's Day

Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them. ...
Genre :Documentary

Louise

2018-11-28 4.75

Honey Bee

Follows the journey of Natalie "Honey Bee" Sorensen, an underage truck stop prostitute trapped in a human trafficking ring until she is transplanted into foster care in remote Northern Ontario and for ...
Genre :Drama

Celia / Lobbyist Singer / Lizzie Borden (voice)

2007-01-18 6.288

Dante's Inferno

A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary ...
Genre :Animation, Comedy

Laurie Campbell

1996-12-24 5.6

I'm Not Rappaport

Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threat ...
Genre :Comedy

Yelena (voice)

2019-11-20 7.235

Frozen II

Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf head far into the forest to learn the truth about an ancient mystery of their kingdom. ...
Genre :Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

MJ Preston

1998-10-25 4.7

The Defenders: Taking the First

A racist provokes four teens into beating a Latino youth to death after one of his fiery speeches on a college campus. The Prestons are first called upon to defend one of the youths who gives testimon ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Amy (voice)

2020-05-04 6.182

Pitch Black Panacea

Amy and Carl both have lazy eyes. Amy’s left and Carl’s right. They are strangers, volunteers for an unusual, life-altering treatment in which they will enter a completely dark room together for ten d ...
Genre :Animation, Comedy

Self

2002-07-13 6.3

Searching for Debra Winger

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry. ...
Genre :Documentary

Gail

2021-10-08 7.4

Mass

Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy. ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1997-07-08 6.6

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively con ...
Genre :Documentary

Judith

2024-08-10 7.7

Sardinia

A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Horror

Self (voice)

2025-12-05 0

This Ordinary Thing

A film about non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust. ...
Genre :Documentary

Rosemary Widdick

2005-01-03 7.453

Medium

Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Jessie Blake

1982-09-22 7.237

Family Ties

Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Family

2003-10-01 7

Karen Sisco

As a U.S. Deputy Marshal, based on Miami, Florida's Gold Coast, Karen must deal with the underbelly of South Beach nightlife and Palm Beach high life while tracking down fugitives. She also struggles ...
Genre :Drama

Claire Rinato

1999-09-20 7.9

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squ ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mr. Big

2005-09-19 7.071

Surface

A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teenage boy find their lives changed when a new and often dangerous sea life species emerges, while the government tries to keep the affair under wraps. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Megan

2021-03-11 7.2

Genera+ion

A group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community. ...
Genre :Drama

Jo Gage

2001-09-30 7.591

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crim ...
Genre :Drama

Venus

1996-08-26 6.4

7th Heaven

Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven children, not to mention the friends, sweethearts and spouses that continually come and go in the Camden house ...
Genre :Family, Drama, Comedy

Meg Corwin

1994-09-19 7.8

ER

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. ...
Genre :Drama

Louise O'Connor

2002-09-27 7.65

Hack

When corruption charges strip him of his job, his family and his pride, former cop Mike Olshansky forges a new identity as a Philadelphia cab driver, patrolling the city as a roving vigilante who work ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Shirley

2017-04-05 6.8

Brockmire

A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife's serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and lo ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2010-02-14 7.4

How to Make It in America

Trying to make a name for themselves in New York's competitive fashion scene, Ben Epstein and his friend and business partner Cam Calderon use their street knowledge and connections to bring their amb ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Virginia Chance

2010-09-21 7.416

Raising Hope

James "Jimmy" Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his odd ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Stephanie (voice)

1999-01-31 7.392

Family Guy

Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids. Stewie (a ...
Genre :Animation, Comedy

Cheryl Sussman

2015-03-31 6.808

Younger

Liza Miller, a suddenly single stay-at-home mother, tries to get back into the working world, only to find it’s nearly impossible to start at the bottom at 40-year old. When a chance encounter convinc ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Eileen O'Neal

2016-03-02 7.181

The Real O'Neals

A contemporary take on a seemingly perfect Catholic family, whose lives take an unexpected turn when surprising truths are revealed. Instead of ruining their family, the honesty triggers a new, messie ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

2005-01-03 6.712

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follow ...
Genre :Comedy, Talk

Pam Michaelson

2005-03-27 8.21

Grey's Anatomy

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. ...
Genre :Drama

Olivia (voice)

2018-11-27 8.2

Minecraft: Story Mode

Take control of an adventure set in the Minecraft universe. The future of the world is at stake, and your decisions shape the story -- so choose wisely! ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family

Patti Nyholm

2009-09-22 7.584

The Good Wife

Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. ...
Genre :Drama

Mint Ma Lord

2023-03-16 5.7

A Town Called Malice

Set amongst the beach clubs and palm trees of the Costa del Sol in the early 80s, A Town Called Malice follows the Lords, a crime family of petty thieves from South London, as they decamp from London ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Sheriff Ann Mathis

2008-09-09 8.134

Fringe

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable even ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery

Intake Officer K. Faraday

2022-04-24 7.418

The Man Who Fell to Earth

An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy

(voice)

2018-12-09 7.462

The Shivering Truth

A miniature propulsive omnibus clusterbomb of painfully riotous daymares all dripping with the orange goo of dream logic. A series of loosely linked emotional parables about stories within tales that ...
Genre :Comedy, Animation

Barb

2022-08-18 7.728

Sprung

A convicted criminal is determined to turn his life around after serving more than two decades in prison. When he is released unexpectedly from prison due to the pandemic with no place to live and the ...
Genre :Comedy

Shelley

2017-08-03 6.946

The Guest Book

Guests bring their baggage and own special brand of crazy to a vacation cottage and record their confessions, alibis and farewells in the cottage’s guest book. Each season features a new town, and alo ...
Genre :Comedy

Clara

2019-02-21 6.757

Flack

Robyn, the sharp and witty publicity maven, is an expert at her craft but a complete self-saboteur when it comes to her personal life. Robyn’s work as a crisis PR strategist is fast-paced and unpredic ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Jane Torres

2025-01-22 6.81

Prime Target

A brilliant math student is on the verge of a major breakthrough when a shadowy enemy tries to stop him. Fighting for answers—and his life—he teams up with a government agent to unravel a high-stakes ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Margo

2016-06-14 7.2

Baroness von Sketch Show

This all-female comedy satirizes modern life's everyday concerns, from the pretentiousness of ordering a fancy coffee to office and sexual politics. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self - Panelist

2016-06-14 5.7

To Tell the Truth

A modern reimagination of the classic game show. In each round, a celebrity panel will be presented with three people who all claim to be the same person with the same incredible talent, job or achiev ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

2020-04-27 5.5

Reunited Apart

Josh Gad reunites the cast and crews of various classic movies, and discusses the the films in hilarious yet heartfelt conversations. ...
Genre :Talk

Self - Guest

2009-07-16 5.031

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities. ...
Genre :Talk, Comedy

Dr. Sharon Fulton

2013-09-23 7.634

The Blacklist

Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dang ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Faye

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East of Eden

In the farmlands of the Salinas Valley in California, successive generations of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, are destined to reenact the fateful story of Cain and Abel. ...
Genre :Drama

Kathleen McGinty

2025-09-07 6.806

Task

In the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, an FBI agent heads a task force assembled to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Self

2003-01-26 5.415

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC. ...
Genre :Talk, Comedy

Self

2003-09-08 5.6

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres. ...
Genre :Comedy, Talk

Self

1962-10-01 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carso ...
Genre :Talk