Hallie Foote
Foote in 2014
Born
Barbara Hallie Foote

(1950-03-31) March 31, 1950
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
OccupationActress
SpouseDevon Abner

Barbara Hallie Foote (born March 31, 1950)[1] is an American actress.

Life and career

Born Barbara Hallie Foote in Manhattan, the daughter of Lillian Vallish Foote and writer and director Horton Foote, she was raised in Nyack, New York and New Hampshire.[2]

Foote began her stage career in 1982, when she was cast in the role of "Sophia" in A Little Family Business on Broadway, starring Angela Lansbury. Foote also understudied two roles in that production.[3] In 1986 she played the title role of her father's off-Broadway play The Widow Claire, which featured Matthew Broderick, Dan Butler, and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Father and daughter later collaborated on Talking Pictures, Night Seasons, Laura Dennis, When They Speak of Rita, The Last of the Thorntons, The Carpetbagger's Children, The Day Emily Married, The Trip to Bountiful, for which she won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress and was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, and Dividing the Estate, for which she won the 2008 Richard Seff Award and was nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. She was appearing in the Hartford Stage production of her father's theatrical adaptation of the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird when he died.[4]

Foote appeared in The Orphans' Home Cycle off-Broadway in 2009, receiving an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. In 2012, Foote appeared as Dolores and Mrs. Crawford in the off-Broadway production of Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote with Primary Stages. She then appeared as Pauline in the Primary Stages production of Him. Foote also played Rosalynn Carter in the 2014 production of Camp David at Arena Stage, the performance was attended by Rosalynn Carter herself, as well as President Jimmy Carter.[5]

Foote also won the Obie Award in 1993 and the Drama League Award in 2000 and 2002 and was nominated for the 1995 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for The Horton Foote Plays.

Foote's movie career has been limited to small roles in C.H.U.D., Walking to the Waterline, Friends with Money, and Paranormal Activity 3, among others. Her television appearances include Miami Vice, Murder, She Wrote, and Law & Order and the television movies The Habitation of Dragons and Alone, both written by her father.

Personal life

Foote is married to actor/screenwriter Devon Abner and is the sister of playwright/screenwriter Daisy Foote.[2]

Filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes
1984 C.H.U.D. Waitress
1985 1918 Elizabeth Robedaux
1986 On Valentine's Day
1987 Courtship Elizabeth Vaughn
1998 Walking to the Waterline Lucy Bammer
2006 Friends with Money Woman
2011 Paranormal Activity 3 Grandma Lois
2014 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Uncredited
2015 Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

Television

Year Show Role Notes
1979 Orphan Train Nellie TV movie
1986 American Playhouse Agnes Wood Roanoak: Part I
Miami Vice Laura Kaplan 1 episode
1987 Little Match Girl Mary-Margaret Dutton TV movie
1988 Hothouse Rose 3 episodes
1991 Separate but Equal Julia Davis TV movie
1992 The Habitation of Dragons Margaret Tolliver
1992–1993 Murder, She Wrote Margaret Johnson / Sylvia Moffett 2 episodes
1994 Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice Hannah Miller TV movie
1995 The Client Caroline Hutchinson 1 episode
1995–2002 Law & Order Marjorie Durban, Margaret Chapman 2 episodes
1996 Relativity 1 episode
Sliders Lady Mary
1997 Alone Agnes TV movie
1998 Promised Land Olivia Milner 1 episode
1999 Strange World

References

  1. ↑ Horton Foote (2004). Marion Castleberry (ed.). Genesis of an American Playwright. Baylor University Press. p. 12. ISBN 0-918954-91-6.
  2. 1 2 Haun, Harry (December 24, 2008). "All Hail Hallie Foote". Playbill.
  3. ↑ "Hallie Foote" Internet Broadway Database
  4. ↑ Hampton, Wilborn (March 5, 2009). "Horton Foote, Chronicler of America in Plays and Film, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
  5. ↑ Gay Stolberg, Sheryl (April 2, 2014). "Carters Return to Capital, Onstage". The New York Times. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
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