Holland Taylor
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
122
Gender
Female
Birthday
1943-01-14 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Holland Taylor
Biography
Holland Virginia Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress. She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC's The Practice (1998–2003). For her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–15), she received a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Taylor's other notable television credits include starring roles on the sitcoms Bosom Buddies (1980–82), The Powers That Be (1992–93) and The Naked Truth (1995–98). She also appeared as Jill Ollinger on the soap opera All My Children (1981–83), as Peggy Peabody on The L Word (2004–08), and as Ida Silver on Mr. Mercedes (2017–19). In 2020, she received critical praise and her eighth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ellen Kincaid in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood. Taylor's feature film credits include Romancing the Stone (1984) and its sequel (1985), Alice (1990), To Die For (1995), One Fine Day (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), The Truman Show (1998), Happy Accidents (2000), Keeping the Faith (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), The Wedding Date (2005), Baby Mama (2008), Gloria Bell (2018), Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), and The Stand In (2020). Taylor wrote and starred in the one-woman play, Ann, based on the life and work of Ann Richards. For this, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holland Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Two and a Half Men
American Dad!
Monk
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Mr. Mercedes
Murder, She Wrote
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Billions
ER
Diagnosis: Murder
The Love Boat
The Practice
The Morning Show
Big Brother
Great Performances
Strong Medicine
The Orville
The L Word
Stars in the House
The Truman Show
Hercules
Kojak
Wiseguy
The Great North
ABC Afterschool Special
The Wonderful World of Disney
Legally Blonde
Speechless
Ally McBeal
The Naked Truth
Motherland
Kate & Allie
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
Cop & ½
Fame
Romancing the Stone
CBS Summer Playhouse
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Veronica's Closet
Fillmore!
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
Hollywood
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
George of the Jungle
How to Make an American Quilt
The Jewel of the Nile
Bombshell
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
Saved by the Bell: The College Years
Twinkle Toes
Alice
Gloria Bell
Home Room
Bosom Buddies
Betty
D.E.B.S.
Town & Country
Electric City
The Wedding Date
E!'s 101
Key Exchange
The Favor
J.T.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
Just Write
Fantasy Life
The Chair
To Die For
Happy Accidents
The Sex Monster
One Fine Day
Ann
Quiz Lady
The Day Reagan Was Shot
The Next Man
A Walton Wedding
Baby Bob
The Stand In
DAG
Bill & Ted Face the Music
Perry Mason Returns
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
Adele One Night Only
She's Having a Baby
The Chosen One
The Powers That Be
Next Stop Wonderland
Keeping the Faith
My Mother Was Never a Kid
Baby Mama
The Saint in Manhattan
Beacon Hill
Divorce: The Greatest Hits
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
The Edge of Night
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
The Lot
The New Yorker Presents
Mail to the Chief
Awake to Danger
Fits and Starts
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
With Hostile Intent
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
Kepler's Dream
The Counterfeit Contessa
The Spiral Staircase
Last Summer in the Hamptons
Betrayal of Trust
Brothers
Going Places
The Rape of Doctor Willis
Steal Big Steal Little
The Sorrows of Gin
People Like Us
I Was a Mail Order Bride
The Little Pageant That Could
Harry
Me & Mom
The Deadly Look of Love
The Unknown Cyclist
O Youth and Beauty!
