Laurie Metcalf

I LOVE her as Carolyn Bigsby in Desperate Housewives.

Carolyn's rant

I never thought much of her until I saw her onstage. Couldn’t the my eyes off her. I was looking forward to seeing her in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf the week when everything shut down.

She was great as the asshole doctor on Getting On.

I didn’t know about SNL. What’s the story with that?

R5 It was in the crazy 1980-1981 season when Lorne Michaels left and Dick Ebersol took over.

Jean Doumanian was fired from SNL in the middle of the 1980-81 season, and the show was retooled. Dick Ebersol was hired and he produced one episode that season-the finale. He introduced a bunch of new cast members, and Metcalf was one of them.

Then there was a protracted actors strike in 1980, and the show didn’t return for months. She didn’t come back.

Balm...

Love her!

She is my absolute favorite stage actress alive right now. She’s magnetic to see live, so natural. I just adore her.

I saw her in the play Detroit at the Steppenwolf theater in Chicago. She’s always a delight.

Wonderful in Making Mr. Right...

She was also great in Scream 2!

She is Laurie Metcalf.

She's fantastic on stage. I've seen her in a couple things that weren't that great but she was better than the material and made it work.

I had the privilege of seeing her in Three Tall Women opposite Glenda Jackson and also the play where she and John Lithgow played Hillary and Bill. How lucky am I.

R14 You mean.....

She IS Laurie Metcalf!

She and Cynthia Stevenson are the same person in my head.

Totally different people. Besides different faces, also different accents--Metcalf is an obvious Midwesterner. Stevenson is obviously from california.

I always confuse Cynthia Stevenson with both Cynthia Gibb and/or Joely Fisher.

She guest starred on “Absolutely Fabulous”. So did everyone else, but I noticed she was on an episode.

First saw her in Desperately Seeking Susan and she was hilarious. I thought her work in Lady Bird was Oscar worthy. I never liked her on Roseanne/The Connors.

She also played Frasier's first wife, a kinky hippy

Laurie is a national treasure, I love everything she does. Glenn Headly was a very sad loss.

[quote]She also played Frasier's first wife, a kinky hippy

I did it first, r23.

For a while, she looked like Patty Lu Pone with a soul.

R12—there, looking exactly like her Zoe Perry.

I saw her in Misery on Broadway. She was far better than Bruce Willis, who I think had an earpiece in feeding him his lines. She was no Kathy Bates though. She did the Annie Wilkes role in a very understated way. The real star of that show was the set.

I lost respect for her on Roseanne when the Jackie character morphed into Gilligan. She should have left then.

[quote]I lost respect for her on Roseanne when the Jackie character morphed into Gilligan. She should have left then.

A girl’s gotta eat.

R28. I think Misery was the beginning of the end for Bruce. Very sad.

I like her, but her acting is overly broad like she's playing to a sitcom audience. Especially Scream 2.

I loved her in Scream 2. Most of the character was meant to be zany, then she is serious at the big reveal.

She was most recently on Broadway is that crappy GREY HOUSE. She wasn't the lead and couldn't save it.

R23- She did not play a hippie. She played a children’s performer.

Her daughter Zoe Perry who plays Mary the mother on Young Sheldon - is uncanny in her resemblance.....here is Laurie in Making Mr. Right.....

R35 did you read the thread? This has been covered here, and many times on other threads.

Love her, but OP Roseanne was an ABC sitcom, not an NBC. After Disney bought ABC one of the first things that happened was the Conners randomly flew to Disney World.

Laurie is so good in everything she's done. Especially liked her on Big Bang Theory and in Scream 2, where that reveal at the end about 'Debbie Salt' was a true shock. The bubbly inept reporter facade falling away and the psychotic, angry mother coming through is probably the best acting moment in that franchise.

[quote]After Disney bought ABC one of the first things that happened was the Conners randomly flew to Disney World.

Yes, ABC pushed Disney in several shows. I’m surprised they didn’t create a sitcom around the theme park.

[quote]I lost respect for her on Roseanne when the Jackie character morphed into Gilligan. She should have left then.

Would you have paid her mortgage? Stupid statement.

Starting the autograph shows.

Loved her as Sandy in Making Mr. Right

I'm not R28 but I was disappointed in some of the changes to Jackie since Roseanne/Conners came back.

It's been better in more recent shows, but the writers didn't give her much in those earlier reboot seasons, and it was just weird that Fred and her kid are all but forgotten.

Some of the episodes with Laurie and Estelle Parsons, though, are fantastic.

Lesbian?

I didn't see it upthread: she was also terrific as Sheldon's mom on Big Bang Theory.

She is a great-niece of Zoe Akins.

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We saw her in Long Day’s Journey into Night and she was so enthralling.

Metcalf just has stage presence.

She needs to be the nasty matriarch in a show, i.e., Susan Sullivan, Kelly Bishop, Jessica Walter, etc.

She did 10 years of that: Mary Cooper. Don’t you watch TV?

That was a pretty good scene, Jackie slapping Darlene. But why was Jackie so horrified, afterwards.

Also, why is everybody lit so badly, especially Becky? She's got Baby Jane (overhead) lighting on her.

Because jackie is a victim of domestic violence R51. She should know better than to be smacking ppl around.

Loved her in Uncle Buck

Didn't they do that same thing on Roseanne? DJ goes joyriding and the car ends up in a ditch, so Roseanne spanks him lightly and she feels horrible?

Her shining moment.

Metcalf v Baranski. I love Big Bang Theory and these scenes are the cherry on top.

R54 yup, and Roseanne was mad at herself because she said she’d never hit her kids since her dad used to hit her.

DJ was a little shit who needed a slap or two.

I love her in JFK, she would have been a supporting actress nominee for me. She has a monologue that is totally gripping.

r50 Mary Cooper was not a regular character. Her daughter playing Mary Cooper is a regular character.

R58 I agree

R59 which is irrelevant, as I replied to a post that made no mention of regular, recurring, featured or guest status. Take a hike.

[quote]Some of the episodes with Laurie and Estelle Parsons, though, are fantastic.

And for the last couple of years they aren't even in the same state when filming.

Thanks R45 I didn't know that!

Loved her crazy huge bulging eyes on Scream 2.

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She *is*...Mettie Laurcalf.

The Vivian Vance of the 90s. Metcalf is good no doubt, but she is never gonna be the lead or the center of a story. Her career has gone very well considering she has no it factor.

Way bigger than Vivian Vance. She regularly works in the Legitimate Theater, as well as turning up in films and regular or recurring roles on TV. More like Lois Nettleton or Janice Rule, but with a bigger career.

I am big - it's the pictures that got small.

R67 she has 2 Tony Awards and 4 Emmys. An Oscar nomination too.

She has played many leads in theatre.

Don’t be condescending, she’s a great actress and an even better human.

Can’t say the same for you.

[quote]Then take a Valium like a normal person.

I didn't know what this meant when I was a kid but now it's my favorite line from the movie.

I have the windowcard (poster0 signed by Rosie, Euan Morton who played George and Raúl Esparza who signed it at the Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS Flea Market. Never got Boy George because he snuck in a secret door, not the stage door or front door, or just came in after the show started because he wasn't on right away but they said he doesn't interact. Wonder if he signs at "Moulin Rouge" now?

Sorry wrong thread

Very, very wrong