Holland Virginia Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress. 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 (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). Taylor wrote and starred in the one-woman play, Ann, based on the life and work of Ann Richards. For this, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holland Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
74 movies · 48 shows
N/A
2026·0.0
Fantasy Life
2026·6.2
Motherland
2025·6.3
The Little Pageant That Could
2024·0.0
Quiz Lady
2023·6.7
Adele One Night Only
2021·7.8
The Stand In
2020·5.3
Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020·5.9
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
2020·6.8
Bombshell
2019·6.8
Gloria Bell
2019·6.0
Ann
2018·4.0
Kepler's Dream
2016·5.5
Divorce: The Greatest Hits
2016·0.0
Twinkle Toes
2011·6.0
The Chosen One
2010·4.4
Baby Mama
2008·6.0
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
2007·6.5
D.E.B.S.
2005·6.5
The Wedding Date
2005·6.8
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003·5.1
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002·5.7
Home Room
2002·6.8
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
2002·6.1
Fits and Starts
2002·8.0
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001·6.5
Legally Blonde
2001·6.8
Town & Country
2001·4.5
The Deadly Look of Love
2000·4.6
Keeping the Faith
2000·6.1
Mail to the Chief
2000·5.8
The Spiral Staircase
2000·5.4
Happy Accidents
2000·6.8
The Sex Monster
1999·5.2
The Unknown Cyclist
1998·4.7
Next Stop Wonderland
1998·5.9
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998·6.7
The Truman Show
1998·8.2
George of the Jungle
1997·5.7
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997·6.8
Just Write
1997·5.6
Betty
1997·4.0
One Fine Day
1996·6.5
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995·5.8
How to Make an American Quilt
1995·6.4
Steal Big Steal Little
1995·4.5
To Die For
1995·6.6
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
1995·7.4
Awake to Danger
1995·6.8
A Walton Wedding
1995·0.0
The Favor
1994·4.9
The Counterfeit Contessa
1994·5.8
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
1994·7.3
Betrayal of Trust
1994·6.5
With Hostile Intent
1993·8.0
Cop & ½
1993·4.6
The Rape of Doctor Willis
1991·6.3
Alice
1990·6.4
People Like Us
1990·5.8
She's Having a Baby
1988·5.9
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
1987·7.4
The Saint in Manhattan
1987·7.0
Perry Mason Returns
1985·7.2
Key Exchange
1985·5.0
The Jewel of the Nile
1985·6.2
Romancing the Stone
1984·6.8
I Was a Mail Order Bride
1982·6.0
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
1982·5.5
My Mother Was Never a Kid
1981·0.0
Fame
1980·6.4
O Youth and Beauty!
1979·9.0
The Sorrows of Gin
1979·10.0
The Next Man
1976·4.6
J.T.
1971·8.0