Member Profiles
Laurie Metcalf
Biography
Laurie Metcalf is an original ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company. She has performed in dozens of Steppenwolf productions, and made her first appearance in New York in Steppenwolf’s acclaimed 1984 production of Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead at the Circle Rep Theater. She has had the pleasure of working on productions by amazing playwrights including Martin McDonagh, Terrence McNally, Don Dilillo, Caryl Churchill, Willy Russell, Alexandra Gerston, Beth Henley, Michael Weller, George Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Garry Marshall, Kaufman & Hart, Lynn Siefert, Bruce Norris, Sam Shepard, Alan Ayckbourn, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, Jane Anderson, Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Neil Simon. She was Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s 2015 “Women in the Arts” honoree for her extraordinary contribution to the field.
Metcalf received Tony Awards for her performances in Three Tall Women and A Doll's House, Part 2. Tony nominations include November, The Other Place, Misery and Hillary and Clinton. Metcalf received three Emmy Awards for her work on the television series Roseanne and also for her role on Hacks. Other Emmy nominations were for Third Rock from the Sun, Monk, Desperate Housewives, The Big Bang Theory, Horace and Pete and Getting On. Films include Lady Bird (National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress), Somewhere in Queens, Desperately Seeking Susan, Leaving Las Vegas, Uncle Buck, JFK, Internal Affairs and the Toy Story series.
Watch & Listen
Past Productions
- Absent Friends
- Action
- And A Nightingale Sang
- Arms and the Man
- Balm In Gilead
- Balm in Gilead (Remount at the Apollo Theater Center)
- Big Mother
- Cloud Nine
- Coyote Ugly
- Detroit
- Educating Rita
- Exit The King (at Hull House)
- Frank's Wild Years
- Frankie And Johnny In The Clair De Lune
- Home Free
- Killers
- Libra
- Little Egypt
- Loose Ends
- Love Letters
- Mack, Anything Goes Over the Rainbow
- My Thing Of Love
- Orphans
- Our Late Night
- Pot Mom
- Purple Heart
- Quiet Jeannie Green
- Rosencrantz And Guildenstern are Dead
- Sandbar Flatland
- Savages
- The Beauty Queen Of Leenane
- The Fifth of July (at St. Nicholas Theatre)
- The Glass Menagerie
- The Lover
- The Miss Firecracker Contest
- The Seahorse
- True West
- True West (Remount at the Apollo Theater Center)
- Voice Lessons
- Waiting For Lefty
- Waiting For The Parade
- Wrong Turn At Lungfish
- You Can't Take It With You
- Little Bear Ridge Road