Dana Ivey
Dana Ivey (born August 12, 1941) is an American actress. She is a five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, and won the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. She originated the title role in Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a Play. Her film appearances include The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), The Addams Family (1991), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Addams Family Values (1993), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Rush Hour 3 (2007), and The Help (2011).
Known for
Law & Order
Shore
Frasier
Ms. Langer
Homicide: Life on the Street
Margie Bolander
Monk
Mrs. Eels
Great Performances
Lady Ariadne Utterword
Great Performances
Gertrude
Sex and the City
Trudy Stork
The Practice
Boardwalk Empire
Mrs. McGarry
Oz
Patricia Nathan
Madam Secretary
Nelly Conlon
Ugly Betty
Roberta
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Mrs. Reed
The Beachcomber
Kahlana
Rush Hour 3
Sister Agnes
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Desk Clerk
The Help
Gracie Higginbotham
The Addams Family
Margaret Alford / Margaret Addams
Easy Street
Ocean's Eight
Diana
The Return of Jezebel James
Addams Family Values
Margaret Addams
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Congresswoman Libby Hauser
Sleepless in Seattle
Claire
Two Weeks Notice
Ruth Kelson
Sabrina
Mack
The Color Purple
Miss Millie
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Explorers
Mrs. Müller
The Kid
Dr. Alexander
Ghost Town
Marjorie Pickthall
Orange County
Vera Gantner
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Trish Pinger
Guilty as Sin
Judge Tompkins
The Scarlet Letter
Meredith Stonehall
Simon Birch
Grandmother Wenteworth
Heartburn
Wedding Speaker
The Leisure Seeker
Lillian
Postcards from the Edge
Wardrobe Mistress
Another Woman
Engagement Party Guest
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Widow Douglas
Broadway: The Next Generation
Self
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Mrs. Paige
We'll Never Have Paris
Francoise
The Impostors
Mrs. Essendine
Mumford
Mrs. Crisp
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
Lois Jurgens
Broken English
Elinor Gregory
Sunday in the Park with George
Yvonne / Naomi
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
Newscaster
Class of '61
Mrs. Julia Peyton
A Lesson Before Dying
Edna Guidry
Walking Across Egypt
Beatrice Vernon
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Gertrude
A Very Serious Person
Betty
Georgica
Dorothy
Professional Cuddler
Gloria