Best known for her Emmy-nominated role as Celia Hodes on Showtime’s dark comedy “Weeds” (2005- ), Elizabeth... (Learn more)
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Elizabeth Perkins’s Milestones
| Moved to NYC | |
| Raised on her maternal grandmother's 600-acre farm in Guilford, Vermont near Brattleboro | |
| When mother lost farm, lived in a motel in Bernardston, Massachusetts | |
| 1981 - 1982 | Performed at Chicago's Goodman (in "A Christmas Carol") and North Light (in "Les Belles Soeurs") theaters |
| 1983 | Landed a role in the touring company of "Brighton Beach Memoirs"; made Broadway debut the following year in the same part |
| 1983 | Off-off Broadway debut, "The Arbor" at La Mama ETC |
| 1985 | Appeared in the New York Shakespeare Festival summer staging of "Measure for Measure" in NYC's Central Park |
| 1986 | Film acting debut, "About Last Night . . ." |
| 1988 | Breakthrough feature role as the toy company co-worker of Tom Hanks in "Big" |
| 1989 | Acted in the sci-fi short "Teach 109"; aired on PBS' "American Playhouse" in 1990 |
| 1990 | Appeared in the short film "Between Cars" (aired on Ha! TV Comedy Network) |
| 1990 | Cast as Aidan Quinn's wife in Barry Levinson's "Avalon" |
| 1991 | Portrayed a cancer patient who forms a bond with William Hurt's title character in "The Doctor" |
| 1993 | Co-starred in the warm, nostalgic "Indian Summer"; first film opposite Diane Lane |
| 1993 | TV-movie debut in the ABC based-on-fact drama "For Their Own Good" |
| 1994 | Played Wilma to John Goodman's Fred in the live-action version of "The Flintstones" |
| 1995 | Acted onstage in Los Angeles production of John Patrick Shanley's "Four Dogs and a Bone", helmed by film director Larry Kasdan |
| 1995 | Had featured role in the female-driven "Moonlight and Valentino" |
| 1997 | Had leading role of a Catholic woman who adopted her former employer's son to protect him from the Holocaust in the "Mamusha" segment of Showtime's "Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women" |
| 1997 | Starred in the NBC movie "Cloned", as a woman who discovers her late son has been cloned |
| 1998 | Portrayed astronaut wife Marilyn Lovell in "The Original Wives Club" episode (directed by Sally Field) of the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" |
| 1999 | Appeared in "Crazy in Alabama", directed by Antonio Banderas |
| 1999 | Offered a convincing turn as a committed AIDS activist in the grim "I'm Losing You", adapted by first-time director Bruce Wagner from his novel |
| 2000 | Cast as Sandra Bullock's beleaguered older sister Lily in "28 Days" |
| 2000 | Played the wife of a man whose lesbian aunt has died in the "1961" segment of HBO's "If These Walls Could Talk 2" |
| 2000 | TV series debut as regular, portraying the captain of a police precinct in the NBC sitcom "Battery Park" |
| 2001 | Starred opposite Jeff Goldblum in the live-action/animated "Cats & Dogs" |
| 2003 | Cast as the voice of Coral in the animated hit "Finding Nemo" |
| 2004 | Starred as a drunken mother in the indie film "Kids in America" |
| 2005 - 0 | Cast as Celia Hodes, upstanding PTA mother on the Showtime series "Weeds"; earned Golden Globe (2006, 2007) and Emmy (2006, 2007) nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series |
| 2005 | Played a Psychologist in the thriller "The Ring 2" |
| 2005 | Starred as Diane Lane's sister in the romantic comedy "Must Love Dogs" |
| 2007 | Once again starred opposite Diane Lane in Griffin Dunne's "Fierce People" |
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