Phyllis Somerville

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Phyllis Somerville is an American stage, screen and television actress. Her most prominent role to date, for which she garnered excellent reviews and for which some critics viewed her as a candidate for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination was as the mother of the sexual predator played by Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children.

She made her debut in the musical Over Here on Broadway, which starred Janie Sell, and the then-surviving Andrews Sisters (Maxene, who has since passed on, and Patty).

[edit] Filmography

Capers (2007)
Lucky You (2007)
Broken English (2007)
Little Children (2006)
Just Like the Son (2006)
If I Didn't Care (2006)
As the World Turns (1956)
Messengers (2004)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Chappelle's Show
Swimfan (2002)
Anatomy of a Breakup (2002)
Revolution #9 (2001)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Sleepy Time Gal (2001)
Third Watch
The Sopranos
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Curtain Call (1999)
Simply Irresistible (1999)
The Guiding Light (1998)
Better Living (1998)
Homicide: Life on the Street
Above Freezing (1998)
Sex and the City (1998)
The Impostors (1998)
Montana (1998)
One Life to Live (1997-1998)
Trouble on the Corner (1997)
NYPD Blue (1995-1996)
New York News (199?)
Leap of Faith (1992)
Law & Order (1990-1991)
Arthur (1981)

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[edit] Theater history

She has a long history of appearing both on and off-Broadway and outside New York; most recently in 2003 as "Emily Dickinson/Vera" in The Psychic Life of Savages, a play by Amy Freed (Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, Connecticut). Her Broadway roles (as per Internet Broadway Database) include: