Martha Plimpton
Acting
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Acting Credits
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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Claire Rinato
Family Guy
Stephanie (voice)
Grey's Anatomy
Pam Michaelson
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Jo Gage
The Blacklist
Dr. Sharon Fulton
Filmography
East of Eden
2026
as Faye
Sovereign
2025
as Lesley Anne
This Ordinary Thing
2025
as Self (voice)
Prime Target
2025
as Jane Torres
Task
2025
as Kathleen McGinty
Sardinia
2024
as Judith
A Town Called Malice
2023
as Mint Ma Lord
The Man Who Fell to Earth
2022
as Intake Officer K. Faraday
Sprung
2022
as Barb
Mass
2021
as Gail
Genera+ion
2021
as Megan
Pitch Black Panacea
2020
as Amy (voice)
Reunited Apart
2020
as Self
Frozen II
2019
as Yelena (voice)
Flack
2019
as Clara
Honey Bee
2018
as Louise
Minecraft: Story Mode
2018
as Olivia (voice)
The Shivering Truth
2018
as (voice)
Hello Again
2017
as Ruth
Brockmire
2017
as Shirley
The Guest Book
2017
as Shelley
The Real O'Neals
2016
as Eileen O'Neal
Baroness von Sketch Show
2016
as Margo
To Tell the Truth
2016
as Self - Panelist
Younger
2015
as Cheryl Sussman
The Blacklist
2013
as Dr. Sharon Fulton
Company
2011
as Sarah
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
as Self
Small Town Murder Songs
2010
as Sam
Remember Me
2010
as Alyssa Craig's Mom (uncredited)
How to Make It in America
2010
Raising Hope
2010
as Virginia Chance
The Good Wife
2009
as Patti Nyholm
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
Marvelous
2008
as Gwen
Fringe
2008
as Sheriff Ann Mathis
Dante's Inferno
2007
as Celia / Lobbyist Singer / Lizzie Borden (voice)
Medium
2005
as Rosemary Widdick
Surface
2005
as Mr. Big
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
Grey's Anatomy
2005
as Pam Michaelson
Hair High
2004
as Miss Crumbles (voice)
Karen Sisco
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
Hack
2002
as Louise O'Connor
The Sleepy Time Gal
2001
as Rebecca
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Jo Gage
200 Cigarettes
1999
as Monica
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Claire Rinato
Family Guy
1999
as Stephanie (voice)
Pecker
1998
as Tina
Music from Another Room
1998
as Karen Swan
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
1998
as Mary Jane Preston
Independent's Day
1998
as Self
The Defenders: Taking the First
1998
as MJ Preston
Eye of God
1997
as Ainsley DuPree
Colin Fitz
1997
as Ann
The Defenders: Payback
1997
as M.J. Preston
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
as Self
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
as Stevie
Beautiful Girls
1996
as Jan
I'm Not Rappaport
1996
as Laurie Campbell
7th Heaven
1996
as Venus
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995
as Chloe Garfield
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
as Jane Grant
My Life's in Turnaround
1994
as Herself
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994
as Earlene Pomerleau
ER
1994
as Meg Corwin
Daybreak
1993
as Laurie
Josh & S.A.M.
1993
as Alison (The Liberty Maid)
Chantilly Lace
1993
as Ann
The Perfect Woman
1993
Samantha
1992
as Samantha
Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992
as Sofie
A Blink of Paradise
1992
as Mother
A Woman at War
1991
as Helene Moszkiewiez
Stanley & Iris
1990
as Kelly King
Parenthood
1989
as Julie Buckman-Lampkin Higgins
Silence Like Glass
1989
as Claudia Jacoby
Another Woman
1988
as Laura
Running on Empty
1988
as Lorna Phillips
Stars & Bars
1988
as Bryant
Shy People
1987
as Grace
The Mosquito Coast
1986
as Emily Spellgood
The Goonies
1985
as Stef
The River Rat
1984
as Jonsy
Family Ties
1982
as Jessie Blake
American Playhouse
1982
as Earlene Pomerleau
Rollover
1981
as Fewster's Older Daughter
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Performer