
Holland Taylor
Born: 1943-01-14
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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

The Truman Show

Legally Blonde

Bill & Ted Face the Music

The Favor

Motherland

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True

George of the Jungle

Fame

Bombshell

To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Alice

Romancing the Stone

D.E.B.S.

J.T.

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

The Jewel of the Nile

Just Write

Happy Accidents

Cinderella III: A Twist in Time

The Wedding Date

To Die For

Key Exchange

Town & Country

The Saint in Manhattan

Baby Mama

Home Room

Ann

Twinkle Toes

One Fine Day

Betty

Quiz Lady

She's Having a Baby

The Sex Monster

The Sorrows of Gin

Keeping the Faith

Gloria Bell

The Spiral Staircase

Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson

A Walton Wedding

How to Make an American Quilt

The Rape of Doctor Willis

The Stand In

The Chosen One

Adele One Night Only

Next Stop Wonderland

I Was a Mail Order Bride

Cop & ½

Perry Mason Returns

Electric City

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

The Little Pageant That Could

The Next Man

Awake to Danger

The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana

People Like Us

The Counterfeit Contessa

Mail to the Chief

Steal Big Steal Little

Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester

In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness

Last Summer in the Hamptons

The Unknown Cyclist

Betrayal of Trust

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Kepler's Dream

The Deadly Look of Love

O Youth and Beauty!
