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{{short description|American actress (
{{Infobox person
| name = Kim Hunter
| image = Kim Hunter
| caption = Hunter in 1956
| birth_name = Janet Cole
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|11|12|mf=yes}}
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| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1943–2001
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|William Baldwin|1944|1946|end=div}} * }}
| children = 2
}}
'''Kim Hunter''' (born '''Janet Cole'''; November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American theatre, film, and television [[actress]]. She achieved prominence for portraying [[Stella Kowalski]] in the original production of [[Tennessee Williams]]' ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'', which she reprised for the [[A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)|1951 film adaptation]], and won both an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] and a [[Golden Globe Award]] for Best Supporting Actress.
Decades later, she was nominated for a [[Daytime Emmy Award]] for
==Early life==
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==Career==
Hunter's first film role was in the 1943 [[
In 1952, Hunter became [[Humphrey Bogart]]'s leading lady in ''[[Deadline - U.S.A.|Deadline USA]].''<ref>{{cite book |last=McCarty |first=Clifford |title=Bogey: The Films of Humphrey Bogart |year=1965 |location=New York |publisher=Citadel Press |page=165 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i24c-Zjt7lUC&q=hunter |isbn=978-0-8065-0001-0 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
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Hunter was [[Hollywood blacklist|blacklist]]ed from film and television in the 1950s, amid suspicions of [[communism]] in Hollywood, during the era of the [[House Un-American Activities Committee|House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)]].<ref>{{cite news |title=THEATER; Blacklist: Memories of a Word That Marks an Era |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/31/arts/theater-blacklist-memories-of-a-word-that-marks-an-era.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 31, 1994 |access-date=September 21, 2015}}</ref>
In 1956, with the HUAC's influence subsiding, she co-starred in [[Rod Serling]]'s [[Peabody Award]]-winning teleplay on ''[[Playhouse 90]]'', "[[Requiem for a Heavyweight]]". The telecast won multiple [[Emmy Award]]s, including Best Single Program of the Year. She appeared opposite [[Mickey Rooney]] in the 1957 live CBS-TV broadcast of ''[[The Comedian (1957 TV drama)|The Comedian]],'' another drama written by Rod Serling and directed by [[John Frankenheimer]]. In 1959, she appeared in ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]'' in "Incident of the Misplaced Indians" as Amelia Spaulding
Hunter starred in the controversial [[television movie|TV movie]] ''[[Born Innocent (film)|Born Innocent]]'' (1974) playing the mother of [[Linda Blair]]'s character. She also starred in several episodes of the ''[[CBS Radio Mystery Theater]]'' during the mid-1970s. In 1971, she appeared in an episode of ''[[Cannon (TV series)|Cannon]].'' In the same year, she starred in a ''[[List of Columbo episodes#Season 1|Columbo]]'' episode "Suitable for Framing"
Hunter's last film role in a major motion picture was in [[Clint Eastwood]]'s 1997 film, [[Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (film)|''Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'']]. In it, Hunter portrayed Betty Harty, legal secretary for real-life [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]] lawyer [[Sonny Seiler]].<ref name=Collura/><ref name=guardian/>
==Personal life==
Hunter was married twice, first to William Baldwin, a [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps pilot]], in 1944. The couple had a daughter, Kathryn Deirdre (b. 1944), before divorcing two years later. She wed Robert Emmett in 1951. They had a son, Sean Robert, in 1954.<ref name=guardian/> Hunter and Emmett would occasionally perform together in stage plays; he died in 2000.<ref name=telegraph>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1407005/Kim-Hunter.html |title=Kim Hunter |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |date=September 12, 2002 |access-date=February 5, 2017}}</ref>
Hunter was a lifelong [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Lyman |first=Rick |date=September 12, 2002 |title=Kim Hunter, 79, an Actress Lauded as Stella in 'Streetcar' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/12/arts/kim-hunter-79-an-actress-lauded-as-stella-in-streetcar.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=May 28, 2018}}</ref>
==Death==
Hunter
==Legacy==
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| 1968
| ''[[The Swimmer (1968 film)|The Swimmer]]''
| Betty Graham
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| 1987
| ''[[The Kindred (1987 film)|The Kindred]]''
| Amanda Hollins
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| ''[[Actors Studio (TV series)|Actors Studio]]''
|
| Season 1 Episode 7: "The Ropes" (1948)<br>Season 1 Episode 17: "The Little Wife" (1949)<br>Season 2 Episode 6: "The Return to Kansas City" (1949)<br>Season 2 Episode 17: "The Little Wife" (1950)
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| 1949
| ''[[The Philco Television Playhouse]]''
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| Season 2 Episode 4: "The Lonely"<br>Season 2 Episode 11: "The Promise"
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| 1949
| ''[[The Silver Theatre]]''
|
| Season 1 Episode 3: "Rhapsody in Discord"
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| 1949
| ''[[Suspense (U.S. TV series)|Suspense]]''
| Emily
| Season 2 Episode 13: "Man in the House"
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| 1949
| ''[[Ford Theatre|The Ford Theatre Hour]]''
| Meg March
| Season 2 Episode 6: "Little Women"
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| 1952
| ''[[Robert Montgomery Presents]]''
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| Season 3 Episode 14: "Rise Up and Walk"
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| 1952
| ''[[Celanese Theatre]]''
| Gaby Maple
| Season 1 Episode 11: "The Petrified Forest"
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| 1953
| ''[[Gulf Playhouse]]''
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| Season 2 Episode 11: "A Gift from Cotton Mather"
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| 1954
| ''[[Janet Dean, Registered Nurse]]''
| Sylvia Peters
| Episode: "The Putnam Case"
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| ''[[Omnibus (U.S. TV series)|Omnibus]]''
| [[Joan of Arc]]
| Season 3 Episode 12 (Segment: "The Trial of St. Joan")
|-
| 1955
| ''Justice''
|
| Season 2 Episode 32: "The Blues Kill Me"
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| 1955
| ''Appointment with Adventure''
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| Season 1 Episode 12: "Race the Comet"
|-
| 1955
| ''[[Star Tonight]]''
|
| Season 1 Episode 21: "Cross-Words"
|-
| 1955
| ''[[Screen Directors Playhouse]]''
| Elizabeth
| Season 1 Episode 3: "A Midsummer Daydream"
|-
| 1955
| ''[[Lux Video Theatre]]''
| Lina
| Season 6 Episode 11: "Suspicion"
|-
| 1955
| ''[[Climax!]]''
|
| Season 2 Episode 11: "Portrait in Celluloid"
|-
| 1956
| ''[[Studio 57]]''
| Molly
| Season 3 Episode 4: "Perfect Likeness"
|-
| 1956
| ''[[The Joseph Cotten Show]]''
| Anita Wells
| Season 1 Episode 9: "The Person and Property of Margery Hay"
|-
| 1956
| ''[[General Electric Theater]]''
|
| Season 4 Episode 22: "Try to Remember"
|-
| 1956–1960
| ''[[Playhouse 90]]''
| (1) Grace Carney<br>(2) Julie Hogarth<br>(3) Anna Rojas<br>(4) Joyce McClure<br>(5) Shirl Cato<br>(6) Mrs. Anderson<br>(7) Maria<br>(8) Helen Bragg
| (1) Season 1 Episode 2: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (1956)<br>(2) Season 1 Episode 20: "The Comedian" (1957)<br>(3) Season 2 Episode 2: "The Dark Side of the Earth" (1957)<br>(4) Season 2 Episode 20: "Before I Die" (1958)<br>(5) Season 3 Episode 10: "Free Weekend" (1958)<br>(6) Season 4 Episode 2: "The Sounds of Eden" (1959)<br>(7) Season 4 Episode 13: "The Hiding Place" (1960)<br>(8) Season 4 Episode 14: "Alas, Babylon" (1960)
|-
| 1956
| ''[[The United States Steel Hour]]''
| Vivan
| Season 3 Episode 18: "Moment of Courage"
|-
| 1957
| ''[[The Kaiser Aluminum Hour]]''
| Louise Marden
| Season 1 Episode 17: "Whereabouts Unknown"
|-
| 1958
| ''[[Climax!]]''
| (1) Lynn Griffith<br>(2) Ann Brewster
| (1) Season 4 Episode 21: "So Deadly My Love"<br>(2) Season 4 Episode 34: "Cabin B-13"
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| 1958
| ''[[Studio One (U.S. TV series)|Studio One]]''
| Maggie Church
| Season 10 Episode 34: "Ticket to Tahiti"
|-
| 1958
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| ''[[Alcoa Theatre]]''
| Stephanie Heldman
| Season 2 Episode 7: "The Dark File"
|-
| 1958
| ''[[Schilling Playhouse|Rendezvous]]''
| Amanda 'Mandy' Sullivan Skowran
| Season 1 Episode 8: "In an Early Winter"
|-
| 1959
| ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]''
| Amelia Spaulding
| Season 1 Episode 16: "Incident of the Misplaced Indians"
|-
| 1959
| ''[[The Lineup (TV series)|The Lineup]]''
| Sister Angela
| Season 6 Episode 2: "The Strange Return of Army Armitage"
|-
| 1959
| ''[[Adventures in Paradise (TV series)|Adventures in Paradise]]''
| Vanessa Sutton Charles
| Season 1 Episode 11: "Haunted"
|-
| 1960
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| ''[[NBC Sunday Showcase]]''
|
| Season 1 Episode 24: "The Secret of Freedom"
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| 1960
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| Television film
|-
| 1960
| ''[[The Play of the Week]]''
| Norma Trahern
| Season 1 Episode 13: "The Closing Door"
|-
| 1961
| ''[[The Play of the Week]]''
|
| Season 2 Episode 21: "The Sound of Murder"
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| 1961
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| Mara
| Television film
|-
| 1962
| ''[[The United States Steel Hour]]''
|
| Season 10 Episode 4: "Wanted: Someone Innocent"
|-
| 1962
| ''[[Naked City (TV series)|Naked City]]''
| Edna Daggett
| Season 3 Episode 13: "The Face of the Enemy"
|-
| 1962
| ''[[The Dick Powell Show]]''
| Ruth Jacobs
| Season 2 Episode 2: "Tomorrow, the Man"
|-
| 1962
| ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]''
| Virginia Hunter
| Season 1 Episode 6: "Of Roses and Nightingales and Other Lovely Things"
|-
| 1963
| ''[[The Jackie Gleason Show|Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine]]''
| Guest / Sketches
|
|-
| 1963
| ''[[The Nurses (TV series)|The Nurses]]''
| Lora Stanton
| Season 1 Episode 32: "They Are as Lions"
|-
| 1963
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| ''[[Breaking Point (1963 TV series)|Breaking Point]]''
| Anita Anson
| Season 1 Episode 7: "Crack in an Image"
|-
| 1963
| ''[[Arrest and Trial]]''
| Geraldine Weston Saunders
| Season 1 Episode 13: "Some Weeks Are All Mondays"
|-
| 1964
| ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents|The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]''
| Adelaide Winters
| Season 2 Episode 16: "The Evil of Adelaide Winters"
|-
| 1965
| ''[[The Defenders (1961 TV series)|The Defenders]]''
| Eileen Rolf
| Season 4 Episode 18: "The Unwritten Law"
|-
| 1965
| ''[[Dr. Kildare (TV series)|Dr. Kildare]]''
| Emily Field
| Season 5 Episode 24: "Something Old, Something New"<br>Season 5 Episode 25: "To Visit One More Spring"
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| 1966
| ''Confidential for Women''
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| Season 1 Episode 1: "Love After Marriage"
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| 1966
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| ''[[Hawk (TV series)|Hawk]]''
| Mrs. Gilworth
| Season 1 Episode 16: "Wall of Silence"
|-
| 1967
| ''[[Mannix]]''
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| Season 1 Episode 1: "The Name Is Mannix"
|-
| 1968
| ''[[Bonanza]]''
| Ada Halle
| Season 9 Episode 19: "The Price of Salt"
|-
| 1968
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| ''[[Walt Disney anthology television series|Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color]]''
| Freda Williams
| Season 14 Episode 20: "The Young Loner: Part 1"<br>Season 14 Episode 21: "The Young Loner: Part 2"
|-
| 1968
| ''[[The Jackie Gleason Show]]''
| Miss Patterson
| Season 3 Episode 3: "The Honeymooners: The Boy Next Door"
|-
| 1968
| ''[[CBS Playhouse]]''
| Gerrie Mason
| Season 2 Episode 1: "The People Next Door"
|-
| 1969
| ''[[NET Playhouse]]''
| [[Clytemnestra]]
| Season 3 Episode 24: "The Prodigal"
|-
| 1970
| ''[[Mannix]]''
| Angela Warren
| Season 4 Episode 12: "Deja Vu"
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| 1970
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| ''[[The Young Lawyers]]''
| Miriam Hewitt
| Season 1 Episode 4: "The Alienation Kick"
|-
| 1970
| ''[[Bracken's World]]''
| Amy Dobie
| Season 2 Episode 8: "A Team of One-Legged Acrobats"
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| 1971
| ''[[The Bold Ones: The New Doctors]]''
| Elaine Miller
| Season 2 Episode 6: "A Matter of Priorities"
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| 1971
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| ''[[Gunsmoke]]''
| Bea Colter
| Season 17 Episode 6: "The Legend"
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| 1971
| ''[[Cannon (TV series)|Cannon]]''
| Liz Somers
| Season 1 Episode 7: "Girl in the Electric Coffin"
|-
| 1971
| ''[[Columbo]]''
| Edna Matthews
| Season 1 Episode 4: "Suitable for Framing"
|-
| 1971
| ''[[Medical Center (TV series)|Medical Center]]''
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| Season 3 Episode 3: "The Imposter"
|-
| 1972
| ''[[Night Gallery]]''
| Cora Peddington
| Season 2 Episode 16 (Segment: "The Late Mr. Peddington")
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| 1972
| ''[[Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law]]''
| Faye Danner
| Season 2 Episode 2: "Lines from an Angry Book"
|-
| 1972
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| ''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]''
| Hannah O'Connel
| Season 7 Episode 14: "Incarnate"
|-
| 1973
| ''[[Love, American Style]]''
| Ruth
| Season 4 Episode 21 (Segment: "Love and the Happy Family")
|-
| 1973
| ''[[The Magician (U.S. TV series)|The Magician]]''
| Nora Coogan
| Season 1 Episode: "Pilot"
|-
| 1973
| ''[[Marcus Welby, M.D.]]''
| Vera Pulaski
| Season 5 Episode 3: "For Services Rendered"
|-
| 1973
| ''[[Griff (TV series)|Griff]]''
| Dr. Martha Reed
| Season 1 Episode 6: "The Last Ballad"
|-
| 1973
| ''[[Police Story (1973 TV series)|Police Story]]''
| Rose Koster
| Season 1 Episode 9: "Man on a Rack"
|-
| 1973
| ''[[Hec Ramsey]]''
| Annie Kirby
| Season 2 Episode 2: "The Detroit Connection"
|-
| 1973
| ''[[The Evil Touch]]''
|
| Season 1 Episode 3: "Dr. McDermitt's New Patients"
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| 1974
| ''[[The Evil Touch]]''
| Emily Webber
| Season 1 Episode 26: "Wings of Death"
|-
| 1974
| ''[[Medical Center (TV series)|Medical Center]]''
| Marion Troy
| Season 6 Episode 13: "Kiss and Kill"
|-
| 1974
| ''[[Ironside (1967 TV series)|Ironside]]''
| (1) Joanna Portman<br>(2) Athena Champion
| (1) Season 7 Episode 18: "The Taste of Ashes"<br>(2) Season 8 Episode 7: "The Last Cotillion"
|-
| 1974
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| 1975
| ''[[Insight (American TV series)|Insight]]''
| Ann Hinds
| Episode 385: "The Last of the Great Male Chauvinists"
|-
| 1975
| ''[[Lucas Tanner]]''
| Bess Reiter
| Season 1 Episode 16: "Collision"
|-
| 1975
| ''[[Ellery Queen (TV series)|Ellery Queen]]''
| Marion McKell
| Season 1 Pilot Episode: "Too Many Suspects"
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| 1975
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| ''[[Baretta]]''
| Crazy Annie
| Season 3 Episode 9: "Crazy Annie"
|-
| 1976
| ''[[Once an Eagle (miniseries)|Once an Eagle]]''
| Kitty Damon
| Television miniseries<br>Season 1 Episode 1: "Part 1"<br>Season 1 Episode 4: "Part 4"
|-
| 1977
| ''[[The Oregon Trail (TV series)|The Oregon Trail]]''
| Liz Webster
| Season 1 Episode 3: "The Waterhole"
|-
| 1977
| ''[[Hunter (1977 TV series)|Hunter]]''
| Mrs. Lovejoy
| Season 1 Episode 12: "The Lovejoy File"
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| 1978
| ''[[Project U.F.O.]]''
| Samantha
| Season 2 Episode 3: "Sighting 4017: The Devilish Davidson Lights Incident"
|-
| 1978
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| ''[[Backstairs at the White House]]''
| [[Ellen Axson Wilson|Mrs. Ellen Wilson]]
| Television miniseries (Season 1 Episode 1)
|-
| 1979
| ''[[The Rockford Files]]''
|
| Season 5 Episode 19: "Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job"
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| 1979
| ''[[The Golden Gate Murders]]''
| Sister Superior
| Television film
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| 1979–1980
| ''[[The Edge of Night]]''
| [[Nola Madison]]
| 113 episodes<br />Nominated—[[Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series]] <small>(1980)</small>
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| ''Scene of the Crime''
| Helen Hollander
| Season 1 Episode: "Pilot"
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| 1985
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| 1985
| ''[[American Playhouse]]''
| (1) Mary Easty<br>(2) Samuel Nurse
| (1) Season 4 Episode 18: "Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part I"<br>(2) Season 4 Episode 20: "Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part III"
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| 1988
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| ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''
| Beatrice Vitello
| Season 7 Episode 1: "Trials and Tribulations"
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| 1993
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| ''[[Mad About You]]''
| Millie Barton
| Season 2 Episode 19: "Love Letters"
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| 1994
| ''[[L.A. Law]]''
| Natalie Schoen
| Season 8 Episode 22: "Finish Line"
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| 1997
| ''[[As the World Turns]]''
|
| (1) Episode dated May 5, 1997<br>(2) Episode dated May 6, 1997<br>(3) Episode dated September 29, 1997
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| 1999
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| ''[[The Education of Max Bickford]]''
| Adelle Aldrich
| Season 1 Episode 3: "Who Is Breckenridge Long?"
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| [[24th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
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| {{won}}
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| [[Golden Globe Award]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture]]
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