Ann Dowd

Q: Has Ann Dowd won any awards?

Yes, Ann Dowd has received several awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in 'The Handmaid's Tale'.

Q: What was Ann Dowd's first film?

Ann Dowd's film debut was in 'The Acolyte' in 1994, where she began to establish her presence in the film industry.

Q: How many children does Ann Dowd have?

Ann Dowd has three children, although their names are not publicly disclosed.

Q: What is Ann Dowd's net worth?

Ann Dowd's estimated net worth is around $4 million, reflecting her successful career in acting.

Q: What are some of Ann Dowd's notable theater performances?

Ann Dowd has performed in several notable theater productions, including 'The Seagull' and 'The Crucible', showcasing her strong stage presence.

Q: In which film did Ann Dowd play a significant role in 2024?

In 2024, Ann Dowd starred in 'The Wild Robot', where she contributed to a story that blends adventure and emotion.

Q: What is Ann Dowd's acting style known for?

Ann Dowd's acting style is known for its depth and authenticity, often bringing a nuanced approach to her characters, allowing audiences to connect with their complexities.

Known for

Hereditary (2018)

IMDb 7.3 / 10

2018 / Drama, Horror / 127 min

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)

IMDb 6.0 / 10

1990 / Drama, Romance / 108 min

In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

Compliance (2012)

IMDb 6.4 / 10

2012 / Crime, Drama / 90 min

On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that...

Name

Ann Dowd

Height

5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)

Born

30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA

Spouses

Matthew Chapman (1995–present)

Children

3 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Robert Dowd, Mary Dowd

Estimated Net Worth

$4 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	TV The Testaments Growing up in Gilead is all they have ever known. As a new generation of young women grapple with the...	Aunt Lydia Clements	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2025	Movie The Friend New York City writer Iris finds her comfortable, solitary life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor bequeaths...	Marjorie	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2023	Movie The Exorcist: Believer Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day...	Nurse Ann Brooks	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2022	Movie The Independent It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first...	Patricia Turnball	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2022	Movie Family Squares The Worth Family has been divided for years but when the matriarch, Grandma Mabel, dies suddenly, the family has to...	Judith	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2021	Movie Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes The live special event features reenactments of episodes from “The Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Strokes”.	Edna Garrett	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2021	Movie Mass Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.	Linda	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2021	TV Teenage Euthanasia A former runaway teen mom is accidentally resurrected in her family's funeral home.	Unknown character	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2021	Movie Enemy of the People Enemy of the People centers on a small former manufacturing town that has been revitalized as a resort destination due...	Unknown character	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2021	TV Hacks Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.	Alien	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2020	Movie Rebecca After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the...	Mrs. Van Hopper	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2020	Movie Cowboys Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with...	Faith	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2020	Movie Speed of Life The film follows a woman who has a chance to reflect on her life when a wormhole opens upon David...	June	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2019	TV Lambs of God A dark, gothic tale about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and...	Sister Margarita	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2019	Movie Henrietta Bulkowski A determined young woman, crippled with a severe hunchback, will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream of seeing the...	Narrator	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2019	TV The Other Two A former professional dancer, Brooke, and her brother Cary, an aspiring actor, try to find their place in the world...	Paula Davies	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	Movie Nancy Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty...	Betty	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2018	Movie Hereditary Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily...	Joan	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2018	Movie American Animals Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of...	Betty Jean 'BJ' Gooch	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2018	Movie A Kid Like Jake On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for...	Catherine	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie Tyrel Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t...	Silvia	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2017	Movie Hedgehog The daughter of a late comic is forced to confront her fears of performing.	Joan	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2017	TV The Handmaid's Tale Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.	Aunt Lydia Clements	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2016	Movie Collateral Beauty Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected...	Sally Price	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2016	TV Search Party A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly...	Paula Jo	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2016	TV Quarry The story of Mac Conway, a Marine who returns home to Memphis from Vietnam in 1972 and finds himself shunned...	Naomi	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2016	Movie Captain Fantastic Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical...	Abigail Bertrang	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2016	Movie Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the...	Carol Raskin	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2016	Movie The Great & The Small Twenty-six year old Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on...	Dupre	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2015	Movie Wildlike Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The...	Jeanie	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2015	Movie Our Brand Is Crisis Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in...	Nell	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2015	TV The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late...	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2014	TV Olive Kitteridge A look at a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all...	Bonnie Newton	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2014	Movie Big Driver Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on...	Ramona	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2014	Movie St. Vincent A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran...	Shirley	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2014	Movie The Drop Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep...	Dottie	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2014	TV The Leftovers When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to...	Patti Levin	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2014	Movie The Discoverers Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in...	Patti	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2014	TV True Detective An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of...	Betty Childress	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2013	Movie Gimme Shelter After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when...	Kathy	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2013	TV Masters of Sex William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual...	Estabrooks Masters	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2013	Movie Side Effects A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.	Mrs. Taylor	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2012	Movie Compliance On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a...	Sandra	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2012	Movie Bachelorette Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high...	Victoria Archer	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2011	Movie Coming Up Roses A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed small towns, money...	Lynne	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2011	Movie The Art of Getting By George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done...	Mrs. Grimes	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2011	Movie Lost Revolution Set in the late 1990's, a Puerto Rican former revolutionary is forced to confront his past after the murder of...	Glenn	Not rated
2010	TV Louie Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in...	Sister Carson	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2009	Movie Taking Chance Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in...	Gretchen	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2009	Movie The Informant! A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his...	Kate Medford	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2009	TV Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2009	Movie The Toe Tactic Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching - she...	Honey Woman	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2008	Movie Marley & Me A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving...	Dr. Platt	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2008	Movie Familiar Strangers "Familiar Strangers" asks the question. "Is it really possible to relate to ones parents and siblings after being replaced by...	Dottie Worthington	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2008	Movie The Babysitters Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night...	Tammy Lyner	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2007	Movie Alice Upside Down Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, Alice McKinley finds her life seriously disrupted when her...	Aunt Sally	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2007	Movie I Believe in America Three generations of one family, all involved at different levels with the Puerto Rican underground movement for independence, struggle with...	Glenn	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2007	Movie The Living Wake A dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to...	Librarian	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2007	Movie Gardener of Eden When a young deli-counter clerk and general slacker in New Jersey accidentally saves a young woman from a serial rapist,...	Ma Harris	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2007	Movie Goodbye Baby An ambitious young woman who can't afford to pay for college throws caution to the wind by moving to New...	Terri	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2006	Movie Flags of Our Fathers There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on...	Mrs. Strank	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2006	Movie The Notorious Bettie Page Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New...	Edna Page	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2006	Movie Saving Shiloh In this third movie about Shiloh, Judd Travers is accused of killing a man he once fought in a bar....	Louise Preston	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	Movie The Thing About My Folks Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she...	Linda	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	TV Law & Order: Trial by Jury The inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the prosecutors' complicated process of building...	Karen Ames	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2005	TV American Dad! The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and...	Miss Macadoo (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	TV House Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital...	Mother Superior	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2004	Movie The Forgotten Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when...	Eileen the Accountant	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2004	Movie The Manchurian Candidate Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins...	Congresswoman Beckett	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	Movie Garden State Andrew returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral, a journey that reconnects him with old friends. The trip coincides...	Olivia	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2004	TV The Jury Set in New York City, the series brings the viewer into the jury room to watch the deliberators try to...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2004	Movie Homework Sara, a young ballet dancer, drifts through boredom as a constrained classical dancer until she meets Jean, a West African...	Mother	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2003	Movie Lucy MOW about the life of Lucille Ball, focusing on the loving yet tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz.	DeDe	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2003	TV Jimmy Kimmel Live! Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2001	TV Law & Order: Criminal Intent The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following...	Laurie Manotti	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2001	Movie Amy & Isabelle In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her...	Lenora	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2001	TV The Division The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series...	Sarah	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2000	Movie Baby A couple finds a baby on their doorstep with a note asking them to temporarily keep it. They take the...	Ms. Minifred	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	TV Freaks and Geeks High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother...	Cookie Kelly	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1999	TV Third Watch The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen,...	Sgt. Beth Markham	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1999	TV Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...	Sally Wilkens	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1999	TV Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...	Louise Durning	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1999	TV Family Law Family attorney and mom, Lynn Holt, has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together, since...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1999	TV Judging Amy Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV....	Mrs. Schleewee	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1999	Movie Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season When Shiloh's abusive previous owner, Judd Travers, tries to retake Shiloh again, Ray tries to find a way to end...	Louise Preston	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1999	TV Providence Providence is an American television drama series.	Mary	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1998	Movie Apt Pupil One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an...	Monica Bowden	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1997	TV Nothing Sacred Father Ray, a card-playing, cocktail-sipping, blues-loving priest, ministers to his parishioners at St. Thomas, a large urban church in an...	Sister Mo	TMDB 9.5 / 10
1997	Movie All Over Me Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture...	Anne	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1996	Movie Shiloh An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home....	Louise Preston	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1995	Movie Bushwhacked A inept courier realises he has been used by criminals to deliver money. On the run from both the criminals...	Mrs. Patterson	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1995	Movie Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression.	Rose Long	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1994	TV Touched by an Angel Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads...	Paula Dardenne	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1994	TV Chicago Hope Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1994	TV Chicago Hope Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September...	Eleanor Robertson	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1994	Movie It Could Happen to You Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress...	Carol	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1993	Movie Philadelphia Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their...	Jill Beckett	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1993	TV The X-Files The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena....	Mrs. Reed	TMDB 8.4 / 10
1992	Movie Lorenzo's Oil Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so...	Pediatrician	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1990	Movie Green Card Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to...	Peggy	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Patricia Smith	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Dr. Beth Allison	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Teresa Franz	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Dorothy Baxter	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1987	TV The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely...	Nurse Courtney	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1985	TV North and South The story of the enduring friendship between Orry Main of South Carolina and George Hazard of Pennsylvania, who become best...	Maureen	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1985	Movie First Steps Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life....	Debby	TMDB 8.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Poor Boy After a near fatal accident on his seventh birthday, a boy awakens from his coma, only to claim to be...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Undertaker's Children Inspired by real events, a reclusive undertaker is forced to take in the children of a deceased distant relative. When...	Johanna Hall	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2026	TV The Testaments Growing up in Gilead is all they have ever known. As a new generation of young women grapple with the...	Producer Production	TMDB 8.2 / 10

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2025 / TMDB 6.6

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2023 / TMDB 5.8

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2022 / TMDB 6.6

Family Squares

2022 / TMDB 4.3

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes

2021 / TMDB 7.5

Mass

2021 / TMDB 7.3

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Got a question about Ann Dowd?

What are Ann Dowd's most famous roles?

Ann Dowd is best known for her roles in 'The Handmaid's Tale', where she plays Aunt Lydia, and in 'Compliance', where she portrays a complex character involved in a disturbing situation.

Has Ann Dowd won any awards?

What was Ann Dowd's first film?

How many children does Ann Dowd have?

What is Ann Dowd's net worth?

What are some of Ann Dowd's notable theater performances?

In which film did Ann Dowd play a significant role in 2024?

What is Ann Dowd's acting style known for?