Louise Lasser

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win See more awards »

Known For

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Bananas (1971)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

Happiness (1998)

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Actress (57 titles)

2012 Driving Me Crazy
Shelly Petterson

2010 Horses Eat Each Other (short)
Irma

2009 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV series)
Convention Attendee

– A Space Oddity (2009) … Convention Attendee (uncredited)

2009 Number Nine (short)
Nurse Jane

2008 Broadway Bound (short)
Dorthy Palmer

2003 National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
Doris Mundt

2002 Wolves of Wall Street
Landlady

2001 Queenie in Love
Martha

2001 Club Land (TV movie)
Frieda Barber

2000 Fast Food Fast Women
Emily

2000 Requiem for a Dream
Ada

1999 Mystery Men
Violet

1998 Happiness
Mona Jordan

1996 Sudden Manhattan
Dominga

1996 Layin' Low
Mrs. Muckler

1993 The Night We Never Met
Mrs. Winkler

1992 Empty Nest (TV series)
Louise Polsky

– Good Neighbor Harry (1992) … Louise Polsky

1990 Frankenhooker
Jeffreys Mother

1990 Modern Love
Greg's Mom

1989 Rude Awakening
Ronnie Summers

1989 Sing
Rosie

1987 Surrender
Joyce

1987 Blood Rage
Maddy

1986 The Perils of P.K.

1985 Crimewave
Helene Trend

1984 St. Elsewhere (TV series)
Aunt Charise

– Cramming (1984) … Aunt Charise

– In Sickness and in Health (1984) … Aunt Charise

1984 Bedrooms (TV movie)
Betty/Loretta

1983 Laverne & Shirley (TV series)
Sister Margaret

– The Monastery Show (1983) … Sister Margaret

1980-1982 Taxi (TV series)
Phyllis Bornstein Consuelos / Phyllis Reiger

– Get Me Through the Holidays (1982) … Phyllis Bornstein Consuelos

– Take My Ex-Wife, Please (1982) … Phyllis Reiger

– Fathers of the Bride (1980) … Phyllis Bornstein Consuelos

1981-1982 It's a Living (TV series)
Maggie McBurney

– A Farewell to Arm (1982) … Maggie McBurney

– Strange Bedfellows (1982) … Maggie McBurney

– Horsing Around (1982) … Maggie McBurney

– Falling in Love Again (1982) … Maggie McBurney

– The Garden of Countess Natasha (1982) … Maggie McBurney

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1981 For Ladies Only (TV movie)
Beth Doyle

1980 Stardust Memories
Sandy's Secretary (uncredited)

1980 In God We Tru$t
Mary

1980 Simon
Doris the Computer (voice) (uncredited)

1978 Just Me and You (TV movie)
Jane Alofsin

1976-1977 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV series)
Mary Hartman

– Episode #1.76 (1977) … Mary Hartman

– Episode #1.43 (1976) … Mary Hartman

– Episode #1.25 (1976) … Mary Hartman

– Episode #1.24 (1976) … Mary Hartman

– Episode #1.23 (1976) … Mary Hartman

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1975 Medical Center (TV series)
Esther Kornblum

– The Price of a Child (1975) … Esther Kornblum

1974 Moe and Joe (TV movie)
Mo Lambert

1974 McCloud (TV series)
Sgt. Maggie Philbin

– A Cowboy in Paradise (1974) … Sgt. Maggie Philbin

1973 Love Story (TV series)
Elaine Kaplan

– The Roller Coaster Stops Here (1973) … Elaine Kaplan

1973 Isn't It Shocking? (TV movie)
Blanche

1973 Coffee, Tea or Me? (TV movie)
Susan Edmonds

1973 Slither
Mary Fenaka

1973 Mary Tyler Moore (TV series)
Anne Adams

– Mary Richards and the Incredible Plant Lady (1973) … Anne Adams

1973 The Lie (TV movie)

1972 The Bob Newhart Show (TV series)
Mrs. Radford

– P-I-L-O-T (1972) … Mrs. Radford

1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
Gina

1972 Class of '55 (TV movie)
Christine

1971 Such Good Friends
Marcy

1971 Love, American Style (TV series)
(segment "Love and the Plumber")

– Love and the College Professor/Love and the Eyewitness/Love and the Lady Barber/Love and the Plumber (1971) … (segment "Love and the Plumber")

1971 Bananas
Nancy

1971 Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (TV short)

1969 Take the Money and Run
Kay Lewis

1966 What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Dubbed voice (voice)

1965 What's New Pussycat
Masseuse (uncredited)

1964 The Doctors (TV series)
Jackie

1962 The Laughmakers (TV short)

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Personal Details

Other Works:

In 1972 she starred opposite Alan Alda in an unsold comedy anthology pilot called "The Class of '55" which would show what happened to the graduates of a fictional college seventeen years after the fact.

Publicity Listings:

1 Magazine Cover Photo | See more »

Height:

5' 7" (1.70 m)

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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

Mary (Hartman) is me - I mean, she's who I would be if I had grown up in a small town and married my high school sweetheart and become a housewife instead of growing up in the big city and becoming an actress and marrying a genius. See more »

Trivia:

Class of 1961 at Brandeis where she starred in a succession of college musicals with Margo Howard (born Margo Lederer) and Stuart Damon (of the soap General Hospital). See more »

Star Sign:

Aries

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