
Marcia Jean Kurtz
Department: Acting
Biography
Marcia Jean Kurtz is an American film, stage, and television actress and director. She has appeared in such films as The Panic in Needle Park, In Her Shoes, Dog Day Afternoon and Big Fan. Kurtz won an Obie Award for her performance as Doris in Donald Margulies' The Loman Family Picnic. She was also nominated for both an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for her role in Martin Sherman's When She Danced. Kurtz also directed Matty Selman's Uncle Phillip's Coat and Evan Handler's Time of Fire. She has appeared several times on the television series Law & Order.
Known For

Dog Day Afternoon
1975

Requiem for a Dream
2000

In Her Shoes
2005

One True Thing
1998

The Panic in Needle Park
1971

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
1983

Big Fan
2009

Ex-Husbands
2024

Black Swan
2010

Believe in Me
1971

Tower Heist
2011

Armageddon Time
2022

Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside
1973

Downtown Express
2012

Death Wish
1974

The Day the Ponies Come Back
2001

Born to Win
1971

Inside Man
2006

The Good Nurse
2022

Ass Backwards
2013

Date Rape
1988

The Wrestler
2008

Cold Feet
1984

mother!
2017

Miracle at St. Anna
2008

From Other Worlds
2004

Cry Uncle!
1971

Center Stage
2000

The Stoolie
1972

Find Me Guilty
2006

The Marconi Bros
2008

Once Upon a Time in America
1984

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007

Running on Empty
1988

The Giraffe
1998

Arranged
2007

Night Falls on Manhattan
1997

If Beale Street Could Talk
2018

Recount
2008

Pleasantville
1977

Loser
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Law & Order
1990

Kate & Allie
1984

Hope & Faith
2003

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Against the Law
1990

The Blacklist
2013

Law & Order
1990

Blue Bloods
2010

Sex and the City
1998

Law & Order
1990

100 Centre Street
2001