Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is an award-winning American actor and singer known for a wide variety of roles across theatre, television, and film. She was born in Big Spring, Texas, the oldest of four children.
Her first acting role was in 1969, when she played Martha Jefferson in 1776, and she subsequently broke into television and film in Eight is Enough and Carrie (1976), respectively. She's been cast twice in the last of these, playing teacher Miss Collins in the 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma and Margaret White in the 1988 Broadway production of the musical adaptation.
Works she's appeared in with TV Tropes pages:
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Theatre
- 1776 as Martha Jefferson
- Arsenic and Old Lace as Martha Brewster
- Carrie as Margaret White
- Cats as Grizabellanote
- Drood as Edwin Drood / Miss Alice Nutting
- Follies as Carlotta Campion
- Gypsy as Mama Rose
- Hello, Dolly! as Dolly Gallagher Levi
- Pippin as Catherine
- Promises, Promises as Fran Kubelik
- Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond
- The Threepenny Opera as Jenny Diver
Television
- Brothers & Sisters as Iva Marchnote
- Cagney & Lacey as Marci Bruckman
- The Chicago Code as Sister Paul
- Chicago Med as Olga Barlow
- Eight is Enough as Abby Bradford
- L.A. Law as Elisa Chandler
- Law & Order: SVU as Attorney Walsh
- The Leftovers as Jane
- Melrose Place as Bernadette Reese
- Monk as Mrs. Fleming
- Oz as Suzanne Fitzgerald
- The Pacific as Marion Leckie
- Preacher (2016) as Madame Marie L'Angelle
- Pretty Little Liars as Regina Marin
- Remember WENN as Gloria Redmond
- Ryan's Hope as Divorced Lady
- Square One TV as Sally Storm
- Supergirl (2015) as Patricia Arias
- Without a Trace as Catherine Ryder
Film
- Carrie (1976) as Miss Collins
- Frantic as Sondra Walker
- The Happening as Mrs. Jones
- Imaginary
- Split as Dr. Karen Fletcher
- Tender Mercies as Dixie
- Wild Thing as Leah
- Wyatt Earp as Virginia Earp
