Elizabeth Marvel
Department: Acting
Biography
Elizabeth Marvel (born November 27, 1969) is an American actress. Her most prominent roles include Det. Nancy Parras on The District, Solicitor General Heather Dunbar on House of Cards, and President Elizabeth Keane on Homeland. Film roles include Burn After Reading; Synecdoche, New York; True Grit; Lincoln; and The Meyerowitz Stories.
Known For
Burn After Reading
2008
A Dog Year
2009
True Grit
2010
The Bourne Legacy
2012
Lincoln
2012
Somewhere Tonight
2011
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012
The Color Purple
2023
A Most Violent Year
2014
G20
2025
Consumed
2015
Aloha
2015
The Dying Gaul
2005
The Other Woman
2010
Pretty Bird
2008
The Guitar
2008
Synecdoche, New York
2008
Holy Rollers
2010
The Phenom
2016
Easy Living
2017
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017
The Land of Steady Habits
2018
Gifted
2017
The Congressman
2016
Goldstar, Ohio
2010
Native Son
2019
Swallow
2020
All the Little Things We Kill
2021
Dark Waters
2019
News of the World
2020
Being Dead
2021
With/In Volume 2
2021
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
2008
Devoted
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Run Amok
2026
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd
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Disclosure Day
2026
Law & Order
1990
Person of Interest
2011
Kidnapped
2006
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Love & Death
2023
Mrs. Davis
2023
Elementary
2012
The District
2000
White Collar
2009
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Manifest
2018
The Good Wife
2009
King & Maxwell
2013
Fargo
2014
A Will of their Own
1998
Homeland
2011
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The Dropout
2022
House of Cards
2013
30 Rock
2006
Helstrom
2020
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Unbelievable
2019
Presumed Innocent
2024
The Newsroom
2012
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016
Law & Order
1990
Past Life
2010
Nurse Jackie
2009