Dana Ivey
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA — Aug 12 1941
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Biography
Dana Ivey (born August 12, 1941) is an American actress. She is a five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, and won the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. She originated the title role in Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a Play. Her film appearances include The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), The Addams Family (1991), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Sleepless in Seattle…
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Dana Ivey's Credits
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Law & Order
Shore
Frasier
Ms. Langer
Monk
Mrs. Eels
Great Performances
Lady Ariadne Utterword
The Practice
Judge Natalie Brown
Sex and the City
Trudy Stork
Homicide: Life on the Street
Margie Bolander
Oz
Patricia Nathan
Boardwalk Empire
Mrs. McGarry
Ugly Betty
Roberta
Madam Secretary
Nelly Conlon
The Help
Gracie Higginbotham
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Desk Clerk
Ocean's Eight
Diana
Rush Hour 3
Sister Agnes
The Addams Family
Margaret Alford
Sleepless in Seattle
Claire
Sabrina
Mack
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Libby Hauser
Addams Family Values
Margaret Addams
The Color Purple
Miss Millie
Explorers
Mrs. Müller
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Mrs. Reed
The Beachcomber
Kahlana
Ghost Town
Marjorie Pickthall
Easy Street
The Kid
Dr. Alexander
Guilty as Sin
Judge Tompkins
Two Weeks Notice
Ruth Kelson
The Return of Jezebel James
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Orange County
Vera Gantner
Mumford
Mrs. Crisp
The Scarlet Letter
Meredith Stonehall
Heartburn
Wedding Speaker
Simon Birch
Grandmother Wenteworth
The Leisure Seeker
Lillian
Another Woman
Engagement Party Guest
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Widow Douglas
Broken English
Elinor Gregory
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Trish Pinger
The Impostors
Mrs. Essendine
Postcards from the Edge
Wardrobe Mistress
Broadway: The Next Generation
Self
We'll Never Have Paris
Francoise
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
Newscaster
Class of '61
Mrs. Julia Peyton
A Lesson Before Dying
Edna Guidry
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
Lois Jurgens
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Mrs. Paige
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Gertrude
Sunday in the Park with George
Yvonne / Naomi
Walking Across Egypt
Beatrice Vernon
Georgica
Dorothy
A Very Serious Person
Betty
The Importance of Being Earnest
Miss Prism
Professional Cuddler
Gloria