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Beth Grant
Known for: ActingBeth Grant (born September 18, 1949) is an American actress. She is known for often playing characters who are conservatives, religious zealots or sticklers for rules. She has appeared in dozens of films, including Rain Man, Speed; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; Love Field; Donnie Darko; A Time to Kill; Little Miss Sunshine; Child's Play 2; Daltry Calhoun; City Slickers 2; Don't Tell Her It's Me; Matchstick Men; Factory Girl; The Wizard; Sordid Lives; The Rookie; All About Steve; No Country for Old Men, Crazy Heart, and Rango. Grant has also appeared in many TV shows, including Everwood; Delta; The Golden Girls; Malcolm in the Middle; The X-Files; Friends; CSI; Six Feet Under; Wonderfalls; My Name Is Earl; Yes, Dear; King of the Hill; The Office; Angel; Judging Amy; Jericho; Sordid Lives: The Series; Criminal Minds, Sabrina The Teenage Witch; True Blood; How I Met Your Mother; and The Mentalist. Grant was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and is an alumna of East Carolina University. She is married to actor Michael Chieffo with whom she has one child. Grant played the same character, Marianne Marie Beetle, in the short-lived show Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, both created by Bryan Fuller. Description above from the Wikipedia article Beth Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography 82
The Mindy Project
as Beverly 
The Bondsman
as Kitty Halloran 
No Country for Old Men
as Carla Jean's Mother 
Donnie Darko
as Kitty Farmer 
Speed
as Helen 
Remarkably Bright Creatures
as Barb Vanderhoof 
Jackie
as Lady Bird Johnson 
Little Miss Sunshine
as Nancy Jenkins 
A Time to Kill
as Cora Mae Cobb 
Rain Man
as Mother at Farm House 
The Artist
as Peppy's Maid 
Child's Play 2
as Miss Kettlewell 
Flatliners
as Housewife 
A Thousand Acres
as Roberta 
Hot Tamale
as Dori Woodriff 
All About Steve
as Mrs. Horowitz 
Matchstick Men
as Laundry Lady 
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Sister Catherine 
Willy's Wonderland
as Sheriff Eloise Lund 
Crazy Heart
as Jo Ann 
The Rookie
as Olline 
Rock Star
as Mrs. Cole 
The Dark Half
as Shayla Beaumont 
Southland Tales
as Dr. Inga Von Westphalen 
Wander Darkly
as Patty 
Extract
as Mary 
Bad Words
as Bedazzled Judge 
Sordid Lives: The Series
as Sissy Hickey 
As I Lay Dying
as Addie Bundren 
Dance with Me
as Lovejoy 
Love Field
as Hazel 
Henry Poole Is Here
as Josie 
White Sands
as Roz Kincaid 
Just Before I Go
as Mrs. Lawrence 
Desert Saints
as Lou 
Lucky
as Elaine 
Factory Girl
as Julia Warhol 
Operation: Endgame
as Susan 
Hover
as Joanna 
Andover
as Rebecca 
Lawn Dogs
as Trent's Mother 
Stolen
as Older Edvena 
Alex of Venice
as Teacher 
Maximum Truth
as Mary Jo Nackserson 
Miss Dial
as Mrs. Wojiechowski 
Consumed
as Kristin Kessler 
Birdseye
as Ruth Betters 
Don't Tell Her It's Me
as Babette 
I Do... Until I Don't
as Phyllis 
Out West
as Tiffany Alcott 
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
as Louisa Ashland 
Valley of the Sun
as Marva 
The House of Usher
as Mrs. Thatcher 
Faults
as Evelyn 
Domain
as Nadine 
Nostalgia
as Anna O'Bryan 
Addicted to Fresno
as Tilda 
Doc of Chucky
as Self 
In My Sleep
as Evelyn 
Sordid Lives
as Sissy Hickey 
Hide
as Candy 
Six L.A. Love Stories
as Meg Albright 
William
as Dr. Thomas 
Eating
as Carla 
Blue Valley Songbird
as Ruby 
Our Very Own
as Virginia Kendal 
Band of Robbers
as Widow Douglas 
The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer
as Ms. Dobbins 
Dear Lemon Lima
as Principal Applebomb 
The Midnight Swim
as Amelia Brooks / Great Aunt 
Polar Opposites
as General Railen 
Spork
as Principal Tulip 
Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend
as Angela 
Interruptions
as Peggy, The Mistress 
Sedona
as Deb 
Welcome to Paradise
as Frances Loren 
Hard Scrambled
as Alice 
Great Plains
as Tess 
Blues for Willadean
as Willadean Winkler