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Birth Place: New York, NY, USA

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BIO

Jessica Walter received Emmy nominations for her roles in Trapper John M..D., Streets of San Francisco, and Arrested Development, for which she also received two SAG nominations. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the series Amy Prentiss.



Walter began her career in Broadway productions including Advise and Consent, Neil Simon's Rumors, A Severed Head, Nightlife and Photo Finish. Her most recent Broadway appearance was in the revival of Anything Goes.

Walter was married to the late Emmy and Tony-winner Ron Leibman. She is survived by daughter Brooke Bowman and grandson Micah Heymann.

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STAGE CREDITS

Show Boat Show Boat
[Regional (US)]
World-premiere Concert Adaptation, 2018
Parthy
Anything Goes Anything Goes
[Broadway]
Roundabout Revival, 2011
Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt
A Connecticut Yankee
[Off-Broadway]
Encores! Concert, 2001
Performer
The Vagina Monologues
[Off-Broadway]
Original Off-Broadway Production, 1999
[Replacement]
[Replacement]
[Replacement]
[Replacement]
Rumors
[Broadway]
1988
Claire Ganz
Fighting International Fat
[Off-Broadway]
1985
Performer
A Severed Head
[Broadway]
1964
Photo Finish
[Broadway]
1963
Clarice
Ada Cooney
Clarice
Ada Cooney
Night Life
[Broadway]
1962
Cigarette Girl
Anna (Understudy)
(Unknown)
(Unknown)
(Unknown)
(Unknown)
(Unknown)
(Unknown)
Advise and Consent
[Broadway]
1960
Performer [Replacement]
[Replacement]

Movies

Lilith
[ 1964 ] Laura
The Group
[ 1966 ] Libby
Grand Prix
[ 1966 ] Pat
Bye Bye Braverman
[ 1968 ] Inez Braverman
Number One
[ 1969 ] Julie Catlan
Play Misty for Me
[ 1971 ] Evelyn
Going Ape!
[ 1981 ] Fiona
Spring Fever
[ 1982 ] Celia Berryman
The Flamingo Kid
[ 1984 ] Phyllis Brody
Tapeheads
[ 1988 ] Kay Mart
Ghost in the Machine
[ 1993 ] Elaine
PCU
[ 1994 ] President Garcia-Thompson
Temptress
[ 1995 ] Dr. Phyllis Evergreen
Slums of Beverly Hills
[ 1998 ] Doris
My Best Friend's Wife
[ 2001 ] Mrs. Epstein
The Dummy
[ 2002 ] Fern
Unaccompanied Minors
[ 2006 ] Cindi
Bending the Rules
[ 2012 ] Lena Gold
Keep the Change
[ 2017 ] Carrie
Undercover Grandpa
[ 2017 ] Maddie Harcourt
The Mimic
[ 2020 ] The Editor

TV Shows

90210
Tabitha Wilson
Amy Prentiss
Amy Prentiss
Archer
Malory Archer
Arrested Development
Lucille Bluth
Dinosaurs
Fran Sinclair
Good Girls
Judith
Jack & Jill
Mrs. Louise Zane
Mannix
Laura Danford, Althea Blake, Kathy Graves
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Marian Lawrence, Jenny Alquist
Medical Center
Phoebe, Susan, Dr. Carrie Benson
Murder, She Wrote
Gwen Noble, Jane Dawson, Joan Fulton
NCIS
Judith McKnight
Oh Baby
Celia Calloway
One Life to Live
Eleanor Armitage
Retired at 35
Elaine Robbins
Saving Grace
Betty Hanadarko
The F.B.I.
Carla Payne, Gillian Norberry, Eleanor Prior
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
Demoness, Cordoth's Daughter
The Love Boat
Holly Hartman, Marcia Farnsworth, Louise Hastings
The Name of the Game
Rita Mason, Allie Chambers, Linda Ramsey
The Streets of San Francisco
Maggie Jarris, Glen Williams, Glen Conway
Three's a Crowd
Claudia Bradford
Trapper John, M.D.
Melanie Townsend McIntyre

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