Dana Ivey
Acting
Born: 1941-08-12 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Biography
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
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Desk Clerk
The Help
Gracie Higginbotham
Ocean's Eight
Diana
The Addams Family
Margaret Alford
Rush Hour 3
Sister Agnes
Addams Family Values
Margaret Addams
Sleepless in Seattle
Claire
Two Weeks Notice
Ruth Kelson
Sex and the City
Trudy Stork
The Color Purple
Miss Millie
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Libby Hauser
Boardwalk Empire
Mrs. McGarry
Monk
Mrs. Eels
The Kid
Dr. Alexander
Ghost Town
Marjorie Pickthall
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Mrs. Reed
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Trish Pinger
Frasier
Ms. Langer
Oz
Patricia Nathan
Law & Order
Shore
Sabrina
Mack
The Scarlet Letter
Meredith Stonehall
Explorers
Mrs. Müller
Orange County
Vera Gantner
The Leisure Seeker
Lillian
Madam Secretary
Nelly Conlon
Postcards from the Edge
Wardrobe Mistress
Another Woman
Engagement Party Guest
Ugly Betty
Roberta
Simon Birch
Grandmother Wenteworth
Heartburn
Wedding Speaker
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Widow Douglas
Guilty as Sin
Judge Tompkins
Homicide: Life on the Street
Margie Bolander
Mumford
Mrs. Crisp
The Practice
Natalie Brown
We'll Never Have Paris
Francoise
Broken English
Elinor Gregory
The Impostors
Mrs. Essendine
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Mrs. Paige