Lindsay Crouse


Actor

About

Also Known As
Lindsay Ann Crouse
Birth Place
New York City, New York, USA
Born
May 12, 1948

Biography

An excellent character actress of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, Crouse had established herself as an outstanding off-Broadway actress in such roles as Ophelia opposite William Hurt's "Hamlet" and Viola in "Twelfth Night; she won an Obie in her then-husband David Mamet's "Reunion" in 1980. After a strong cameo in "The Verdict" (1982), a moving performance as an Ethel Rosenberg-inspired characte...

Family & Companions

Robert Duvall
Companion
Actor. Was living with Crouse when she met Mamet.
David Mamet
Husband
Playwright, screenwriter, director. Married on December 21, 1977; divorced in 1990.

Bibliography

"The Owl"
Lindsay Crouse and David Mamet

Biography

An excellent character actress of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, Crouse had established herself as an outstanding off-Broadway actress in such roles as Ophelia opposite William Hurt's "Hamlet" and Viola in "Twelfth Night; she won an Obie in her then-husband David Mamet's "Reunion" in 1980. After a strong cameo in "The Verdict" (1982), a moving performance as an Ethel Rosenberg-inspired character in "Daniel" (1983) and an Oscar-nominated turn in "Places in the Heart" (1984), Crouse played a cool, impressive lead in "House of Games" (1987), written and directed by Mamet. Her film career picked up in the mid-1990s with turns as Randy Quaid's ex-wife in "Bye Bye, Love" (1994), as the boy's mother in "The Indian in the Cupboard" (1995) and in support of Charlie Sheen in sci-fi actioner "The Arrival" (1996). Crouse also appeared briefly as Marilyn Monroe's acting coach in "Norma Jean and Marilyn" (HBO, 1996). She is the daughter of playwright/producer Russel Crouse.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Somewhere Slow (2013)
Anchor
Mr. Brooks (2007)
Impostor (2002)
Beyond the Prairie II: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues (2002)
Caroline Ingalls
Cherish (2002)
Almost Salinas (2001)
Allie
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (2000)
Caroline Ingalls
The Insider (1999)
Total Stranger (1999)
Patti Young
Progeny (1998)
Dr Susan Lamarche
Prefontaine (1997)
The Arrival (1996)
The Juror (1996)
Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)
The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
Bye, Bye Love (1995)
Grace
Out of Darkness (1994)
Being Human (1994)
Parallel Lives (1994)
Chantilly Lace (1993)
Rheza
Final Appeal (1993)
Dana Cartier
Desperate Hours (1990)
Communion (1989)
Sex and the Married Detective (1989)
House of Games (1987)
Places In The Heart (1984)
Iceman (1984)
Dr Diane Brady
Daniel (1983)
The Verdict (1982)
Prince of the City (1981)
Slap Shot (1977)
Between The Lines (1977)
All The President's Men (1976)

Music (Feature Film)

Parallel Lives (1994)
Song Performer

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Somewhere Slow (2013)
Off Screen Anchor

Cast (Special)

Between Mother and Daughter (1995)
Anna Leone
Campus Culture Wars: Five Stories About P.C. (1993)
Narration
Made in America? (1992)
Living Against the Odds (1991)
Voice
Local Heroes, Global Change (1990)
Narrator
American Nuclear (1989)
Annie Holscher
Lemon Sky (1988)
I Want to Go Home (1985)
Louise Sanders
Summer Solstice (1981)
Young Margaret

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

One Hell of a Guy (1998)
If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
Frances White ("1996")
Eleanor and Franklin (1976)

Life Events

1972

Made first Broadway appearance in the acclaimed New York Shakespeare Festival revival of "Much Ado About Nothing"

1976

TV-movie debut in "Eleanor and Franklin" (ABC)

1976

Screen acting debut in "All the President's Men"

1977

Featured in the ensemble of "Between the Lines", a low-budget comedy-drama about the staff of an underground Boston newspaper

1977

Had featured role as the wealthy wife of a hockey player (Michael Ontkean) in "Slap Shot"; first film with Paul Newman

1979

Member of the Circle Repertory Company; acted in such acclaimed productions as "Reunion" (1979) and "Childe Byron" (1981)

1981

Played the lead character of Margaret (essayed by Myrna Loy) in flashbacks in the ABC drama "Summer Solstice"

1982

Second movie with Paul Newman, "The Verdict"; scripted by Mamet

1984

Co-starred with Timothy Hutton in "Iceman"

1984

Received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as a married woman whose husband is having an affair in a small Texas town in "Places in the Heart"

1987

Moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts (date approximate)

1987

Had starring role in then-husband David Mamet's film "House of Games"; portrayed a psychiatrist who agrees to help a patient get out of his gambling debt

1989

Played the wife of a man convinced he had been abducted by aliens in "Communion"

1991

Returned to Broadway in revival of Harold Pinter's play "The Homecoming"

1993

Acted in the ensemble of the improved TV-movie "Chantilly Lace", a Showtime comedy-drama directed by Linda Yellen

1994

Was a regular on the short-lived CBS police drama "Traps"

1994

Reteamed with Yellen for the similarly improved "Parallel Lives" (Showtime)

1995

Cast as Randy Quaid's bitter ex-wife in "Bye Bye, Love"

1996

Portrayed Marilyn Monroe's acting coach in the HBO movie "Norma Jean and Marilyn"

1997

Acted in "Prefontaine", portraying the runner's mom

1999

Offered fine turn as Lowell Bergman's wife in the Oscar-nominated Best Picture "The Insider"

2001

Appeared alongside Ally Sheedy in the TNT drama "The Warden"

2001

Co-starred with John Mahoney in the L.A. premiere of stage play "The Weir"

Family

Russel Crouse
Father
Playwright. Born in 1889; died in 1966; collaborated with Howard Lindsay on such plays and musicals as "Life With Father", "The State of the Union", "Call Me Madam" and "The Sound of Music".
Anna Crouse
Mother
Board member of Lincoln Center Theater.
Willa Mamet
Daughter
Born c. 1982.
Zosia Mamet
Daughter
Born February 2, 1988 in Randolph, Vermont.

Companions

Robert Duvall
Companion
Actor. Was living with Crouse when she met Mamet.
David Mamet
Husband
Playwright, screenwriter, director. Married on December 21, 1977; divorced in 1990.

Bibliography

"The Owl"
Lindsay Crouse and David Mamet