Holland Taylor

Holland Taylor

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Holland Taylor

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Holland Taylor

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January 14

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Holland Taylor is an American actress and playwright.

She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC's The Practice (1998–2003). For her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–15), she received a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Taylor's other notable television credits include starring roles on the sitcoms Bosom Buddies (1980–82), The Powers That Be (1992–93) and The Naked Truth (1995–98). She also appeared as Jill Ollinger on the soap opera All My Children (1981–83), as Peggy Peabody on The L Word (2004–08), and as Ida Silver on Mr. Mercedes (2017–19). In 2020, she received critical praise and her eighth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ellen Kincaid in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood.

Taylor's feature film credits include Romancing the Stone (1984) and its sequel, The Jewel of the Nile (1985), Alice (1990), To Die For (1995), One Fine Day (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), The Truman Show (1998), Happy Accidents (2000), Keeping the Faith (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), The Wedding Date (2005), Baby Mama (2008), Gloria Bell (2018), Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), and The Stand In (2020).

9 Nominations
1 Emmy
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Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series - 2024
Holland Taylor, as Cybil Richards
Apple TV+
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Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series - 2010
Holland Taylor, as Evelyn Harper
CBS
Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc., The Tannenbaum Company in association with Warner Bros. Television
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Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series - 2008
Holland Taylor, as Evelyn Harper
CBS
Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc., The Tannenbaum Company in association with Warner Bros. Television
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Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series - 2007
Holland Taylor, as Evelyn Harper
CBS
Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc., The Tannenbaum Company in association with Warner Bros. Television
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Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series - 2005
Holland Taylor, as Evelyn Harper
CBS
Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc., The Tannenbaum Company in association with Warner Bros. Television
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series - 2000
Holland Taylor, as Judge Roberta Kittleson
ABC
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Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series - 1999
Holland Taylor, as Judge Roberta Kittleson
ABC
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