Beth Grant
Biography
Beth Grant (born September 18, 1949) is an American actress. She is known for often playing characters who are conservatives, religious zealots or sticklers for rules.
She has appeared in dozens of films, including Rain Man, Speed; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; Love Field; Donnie Darko; A Time to Kill; Little Miss Sunshine; Child's Play 2; Daltry Calhoun; City Slickers 2; Don't Tell Her It's Me; Matchstick Men; Factory Girl; The Wizard; Sordid Lives; The Rookie; All About Steve; No Country for Old Men, Crazy Heart, and Rango.
Grant has also appeared in many TV shows, including Everwood; Delta; The Golden Girls; Malcolm in the Middle; The X-Files; Friends; CSI; Six Feet Under; Wonderfalls; My Name Is Earl; Yes, Dear; King of the Hill; The Office; Angel; Judging Amy; Jericho; Sordid Lives: The Series; Criminal Minds, Sabrina The Teenage Witch; True Blood; How I Met Your Mother; and The Mentalist.
Grant was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and is an alumna of East Carolina University. She is married to actor Michael Chieffo with whom she has one child.
Grant played the same character, Marianne Marie Beetle, in the short-lived show Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, both created by Bryan Fuller.
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Acting (129 movies)
Donnie Darko
2001
Rain Man
1988
Desert Saints
2002
Speed
1994
A Time to Kill
1996
Hot Tamale
2006
Flags of Our Fathers
2006
Grave Intentions
2021
Southland Tales
2007
Child's Play 2
1990
Daltry Calhoun
2005
The Ungodly
2007
Evil Alien Conquerors
2003
No Country for Old Men
2007
All About Steve
2009
Matchstick Men
2003
Factory Girl
2006
Extract
2009
Hard Pill
2005
Henry Poole Is Here
2008
In My Sleep
2010
Operation: Endgame
2010
The Rookie
2002
Winged Creatures
2009
Hide
2008
Life of Lemon
2011
To Dance with Olivia
1997
Love Always
1997
Interruptions
1997
The Rising Place
2001
Hard Scrambled
2006
A Thousand Acres
1997
Love Field
1992
White Sands
1992
Sordid Lives
2000
Dear Lemon Lima
2009
Rocker
2006
Welcome to Paradise
2007
Our Very Own
2005
The House of Usher
2007
The Artist
2011
The Image
1990
Maximum Truth
2023
Polar Opposites
2008
Valley of the Sun
2011
As I Lay Dying
2013
Hollywood to Dollywood
2011
Blue Valley Songbird
1999
Sedona
2011
Bad Words
2013
Herpes Boy
2009
Miss Dial
2013
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001
Lieberman in Love
1995
Safe
1995
Blues for Willadean
2012
The Midnight Swim
2015
Out West
2013
Odyssea
2014
The Dark Half
1993
Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story
1992
Amsterdam
2022
The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer
2018
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1994
Faults
2014
Consumed
2015
Band of Robbers
2016
Addicted to Fresno
2015
Rock Star
2001
Spork
2010
Andover
2018
Great Plains
2016
Jackie
2016
Little Miss Sunshine
2006
Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996
Domain
2017
Actors Anonymous
2017
The Labyrinth
2016
Mississippi Requiem
2018
Heartland
2016
Pearl Harbor
2001
Sweet Dreams
2024
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1990
Lucky
2017
In Dubious Battle
2016
Just Before I Go
2015
Alex of Venice
2015
Rango
2011
Crazy Heart
2009
Stolen
2009
Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend
2005
A Thief Of Time
2004
Dance with Me
1998
Doctor Dolittle
1998
Under Cover
1987
The Wizard
1989
Flatliners
1990
Hold On
2019
Birdseye
2002
William
2019
Directing (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Girls! Girls! Girls! | 2011 | Writer |