'Safe'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Jane Addams
Lois Smith
Alice Drummond
Addams played the ex-wife in Sideways and has been in a lot of indie films or tiny roles in larger movies. Lois Smith is older and has been in EVERYTHING. She was the wise older woman Tom Cruise visits in Minority Report. Alice Drummond often plays older, slightly batty women.
I forgot Eve Arden! Amazing in movies from Mildred Pierce to Grease!
Joan Blondell is in Grease , too!!
Shirley Henderson
David Straitharn
Martin Donovan
Timothy Spall
Jim Broadbent
I ADORE all of Sue's list.
What else has Shirley Henderson been in other than the Harry Potter films and the ShakespeaRetold of Taming of the Shrew (in which she was great, btw)?
I was going to add Kelly Macdonald, but she's on the cusp of leading/character actor.
What else has Shirley Henderson been in other than the Harry Potter films
Topsy Turvy, the Bridget Jones movies, Marie Antoinette
I forgot about Topsy Turvy! (And I haven't seen the others.) She's distinctive all right, with that voice and her tiny size (which was really startling in the Taming update).
Shirley Henderson
I can recommend Dirty, Filthy Love and Trainspotting.