Holland Taylor
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
122
Gender
Female
Birthday
1943-01-14 (83 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
American Dad!
Two and a Half Men
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Monk
ER
Murder, She Wrote
Billions
Mr. Mercedes
Big Brother
The Love Boat
Great Performances
The Orville
Diagnosis: Murder
The Practice
Strong Medicine
The Morning Show
The Great North
The Truman Show
The L Word
Hercules
ABC Afterschool Special
Ally McBeal
The Wonderful World of Disney
Kojak
Legally Blonde
Wiseguy
Stars in the House
Ann
Speechless
Alice
The Favor
The Naked Truth
J.T.
Romancing the Stone
Happy Accidents
Just Write
Motherland
Adele One Night Only
D.E.B.S.
Betty
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
Veronica's Closet
Bombshell
Fantasy Life
People Like Us
Fillmore!
Saved by the Bell: The College Years
Fits and Starts
Bosom Buddies
Kate & Allie
The Jewel of the Nile
Town & Country
Home Room
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
George of the Jungle
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
Hollywood
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
A Walton Wedding
I Was a Mail Order Bride
E!'s 101
The Chair
CBS Summer Playhouse
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
The Sex Monster
DAG
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
One Fine Day
Fame
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
Bill & Ted Face the Music
The Powers That Be
Baby Bob
The Wedding Date
To Die For
The Lot
Baby Mama
Gloria Bell
Quiz Lady
How to Make an American Quilt
She's Having a Baby
Key Exchange
Going Places
Brothers
The Stand In
Keeping the Faith
Beacon Hill
The Edge of Night
The New Yorker Presents
Cop & ½
Perry Mason Returns
Harry
Next Stop Wonderland
The Counterfeit Contessa
The Chosen One
The Next Man
Me & Mom
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
Mail to the Chief
Electric City
Betrayal of Trust
Divorce: The Greatest Hits
Kepler's Dream
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
The Sorrows of Gin
Twinkle Toes
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
Steal Big Steal Little
The Day Reagan Was Shot
The Spiral Staircase
The Saint in Manhattan
The Deadly Look of Love
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
Last Summer in the Hamptons
The Unknown Cyclist
The Rape of Doctor Willis
The Little Pageant That Could
Awake to Danger
With Hostile Intent
O Youth and Beauty!
My Mother Was Never a Kid
