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Elizabeth Perkins


Elizabeth Perkins (born November 18, 1960) is a
well-known United States|American film|movie,
television and theater actress. She was born in
Queens, New York, and was raised in Vermont. After
finishing high school she spent three years in
Chicago taking acting lessons at the famous
Goodman School of Drama. Back in New York in 1984,
she did her first theater performance. Thereafter
she worked in several ensembles and has since then
considered theater playing as a priority of her
career.

As a movie actress she made her film-debut in 1986
in Edward Zwicks "About Last Night..."   She then
had her breakthrough starring with Tom Hanks in
Big. She then received critical acclaim for her
performance in Barry Levinson's Avalon. Of all the
films she has acted in, her biggest success so far
has been however The Flintstones, starring also
John Goodman, in which she plays the
long-suffering Wilma Flinstone.

In 1993 Perkins made her television debut in For
Their Own Good.  She starred thereafter in the
comedy series Battery Park and If These Walls
Could Talk, and has since then played roles in
television films on a regular basis.

Perkins' first husband was Terry Kinney, from whom
she divorced. In 2000 she married her present
husband, Julio Macat.  

Perkins currently plays Celia Hodges, upstanding
PTA mother, alongside Mary-Louise Parker and
Justin Kirk on  the new Showtime series Weeds
(television)|Weeds. 

==Selected Filmography==
*Must Love Dogs (2005 in film|2005) 
*The Ring Two (2005 in film|2005)  
*Weeds (television)|Weeds (2005 in
television|2005) (TV series)
*Speak (movie)|Speak (2004 in film|2004)
*Finding Nemo (2003 in film|2003) 
*All I Want (movie)|Try Seventeen (2002 in
film|2002)
*Cats & Dogs (2001 in film|2001)
*Miracle on 34th Street (1994 in film|1994)
*The Flintstones (movie)|The Flintstones (1994 in
film|1994)
*He Said, She Said (1991 in film|1991)
*Avalon (film)|Avalon (1990 in film|1990) 
*Big (1988 in film|1988)
*About Last Night (movie)|About Last Night (1986
in film|1986)

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0001610|name=Elizabeth Perkins