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