Kathleen Chalfant Biography (1945-)

Original name, Kathleen Palmer; born January 14, 1945, in San Francisco, CA;daughter of an officer for the Coast Guard and an owner of a boarding house;married Henry Chalfant (a documentary filmmaker). Addresses: Agent: Writers and Artists Agency, 924 Westwood Blvd., Suite 900, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupation: Actress
Birth Details: January 14, 1945; San Francisco, California, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
Title role, Eurydice, The Cubiculo, New York City, 1972
"B," Jealousy, Westside YWCA Clark Center, New York City, 1974
Cowboy Pictures, Playwrights Horizons, New York City, 1974
The Coroner's Plot, Playwrights Horizons, then Round House Company, Queens Theatre-in-the-Park, 1975
Mississippi Moonshine, Playwrights Horizons, 1975
Dance with Me, Broadway production, 1975
Paradise, Playwrights Horizons, 1976
The Body Parts of Magaret Fuller, Playwrights Horizons, 1976
Born Yesterday, Playwrights Horizons, 1976
Hold Me!, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1977
Signs of Life, American Place Theatre, 1979
Mavis, Killings on the Last Line, American Place Theatre, 1980
Understudy, The Actor's Nightmare and title role, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (double-bill), Playwrights Horizons, 1981
Emma Borden, Blood Relations, Hudson Guild Theatre, New York City,1983
Grace, Faith Healer, Vineyard Theatre, 1983
Lily Heegan, All the Nice People, Tomi Park Royal Theatre, 1984
Isabella, Joyce, and Mrs. Kidd, Top Girls, ACT/A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle, WA, 1984-1985
Sand Mountain, The Whole Theatre, Montclair, NJ, 1985-1986
Sissy Jupe, Mrs. Gradgrind, Mrs. Sparsit, Rachael, Mary Stokes, and Ensemble, Hard Times, American Theatre Exchange, Joyce Theatre, 1987
Alice, Suzanne Lachette, and Mary, Laughing Stock, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1987-1988
Understudy for the role of Helga, M. Butterfly, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City, 1988
Mrs. Potentate, Just Say No, WPA Theatre, New York City, 1988
Lidia, The Paper Gramophone, Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT,1988-1989
Lady Aitkin, The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador, New York Theatre Workshop, Perry Street Theatre, New York City, 1989
Mrs. Ann Putnam, The Crucible, Roundabout Theatre Company, Union Square Theatre, New York City, 1990
The Party, Sundays at the Itchey Foot, 1990-1991
Party Women, Lady Bracknell's Confinement and The Party (double-bill), Vineyard Theatre, 1992
Hannah Pitt, Angels in America: Part One, Millennium Approaches, and Part Two, Perestroika, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1992-1993, then Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 1993-1994
Clytemnestra, "Iphigenia in Aulis," Iphigenia and Other Daughters,Classic Stage Company, New York City, 1995
Jenny, Twelve Dreams, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, New York City, 1995
Clov, Endgame, Classic Stage Company Theatre, 1995
Heather Espy, Racing Demon, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York City, 1995
Ghosts, Hartford Stage Company, 1995-1996
Mistress Quickly/Queen Isabel, Henry V, Delacorte Theatre, 1996

Non/Marie, Nine Armenians, City Center Stage I, New York City, 1996
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., Wit, Long Wharf Theatre, 1997, then MCC Theatre, New York City, later Union Square Theatre, 1998
Phaedra, Phaedra in Delirium, Classic Stage Company, 1998
The Vagina Monologues, Westside Theatre Downstairs, 1999
True History and Real Adventures, Vineyard Theatre, 1999
Dragon Country (includes "The Gnadiges Fraulein" and "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow"), Hartford Stage Company, 2001
Also appeared in Jules Feiffer's Hold Me!, West Side Arts, Signs of Life, 3 Poets, Killings on the Last Line, Cowboy Pictures, and The Boor, all off-Broadway; also appeared in a Londonproduction of Wit.
Film Appearances
Mrs. Fitzgerald, Five Corners, Cineplex Odeon, 1987
Miss Lily, Miss Firecracker, Corsair, 1989
Dean, "Lot 249," Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, Paramount, 1990
Mom, Jumpin' at the Boneyard, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991
Ruth, Out of the Rain (also known as End of Innocence), Live Home Video, 1991
Constance Roberts, Bob Roberts, Paramount/Miramax, 1992
Denise's Mom, Fly by Night, Arrow Releasing, 1993
Casitas Madres receptionist, Junior, Universal, 1994
Grandmother, David Searching, Backpain Productions, 1996
Mildred, MURDER and Murder, Zeitgeist Films, 1996
Beggar Woman, A Price above Rubies, Miramax, 1998
Nanda Brookeham, Side Streets, 1998
Zenia, The Last Days of Disco, Gramercy, 1998
Shirley Magnuson, Random Hearts, Columbia, 1999
Dr. Ruth Fielding, QM, I Think I Call Her QM, 1999
Mother Quimp, Company Man, Paramount Classics, 2000
Woman, Woman Found Dead in Elevator, Big Telescope, 2000
The Pornographer: A Love Story, Blow Up, 2000
Nina, Book of Kings, 2002
Television Appearances
Series
Rae Ella, All My Children, ABC, 1994
Dr. Sands, One Life to Live, ABC, 1997
Laurie Solt, The Guardian, CBS, 2001-
Specials
Erna Hauser, The Hollow Boy, PBS, 1991
"In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway," American Playhouse,PBS, 1993
Voice, Echoes from the White House, PBS, 2001
Episodic
Marlene Branson, nun lawyer, "Zo Long," L.A. Law, NBC, 1992
"Blue Boy," New York Undercover, Fox, 1996
Sister Margaret/Mother Superior, "Hot in the City," Spin City, ABC, 1997
"God Bless America," Prince Street, 1997
Mrs. Waclawek, "Someone to Watch over Me," The Beat, UPN, 2000
Mrs. Nash, "Noncompliance," Law & Order: Special Victims Unit(also known as Law & Order: SVU), NBC, 2000
Ms. Cutler, "Phobia," Law & Order, NBC, 2001
Priscilla Van Acker, "Smothered," Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NBC, 2001
Also appeared in "Father and Sons," "Everyday People," "Drugs, Lies and Videotape," and "A Room without a View," all episodes of Prince Street.
Miniseries
Joanna Stanhope, Stephen King's Storm of the Century (also known as Storm of the Century), ABC, 1999
Movies
Anonymous female rancher, The Laramie Project, HBO, 2002
Aunt Hannah, A Death in the Family, PBS, 2002
Pilots
Laurie Solt, The Guardian, CBS, 2001

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

American Theatre, February, 1993, p. 28
Back Stage, February 6, 1998, p. 19

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