
Kathleen Quinlan
Department: Acting
Biography
Kathleen Denise Quinlan Abbott (born November 19, 1954) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1977 film of the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and her Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated role in the 1995 film Apollo 13, along with many roles in other feature films, television movies and series, in a career spanning almost five decades. She made her feature film debut in Mel Stuart's One Is a Lonely Number (1972) follwed by George Lucas' American Graffiti (1973) and made her definite breakthrough in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) as Deborah Blake.
Known For

Apollo 13
1995

Breakdown
1997

Made of Honor
2008

Lifeguard
1976

Picture Windows: Lightning
1995

Event Horizon
1997

Airport '77
1977

Hanky Panky
1982

A Civil Action
1998

Prison Break: The Final Break
2009

Warning Sign
1985

The Hills Have Eyes
2006

The Last Winter
1984

Zeus & Roxanne
1997

Harm's Way
2008

Sunset
1988

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977

My Giant
1998

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
2024

The Dead Will Tell
2004

Last Light
1993

Clara's Heart
1988

Elektra Luxx
2011

The Riverman
2004

Wild Thing
1987

Trapped
1989

An American Story
1992

Where Have All the People Gone
1974

Strays
1991

The Promise
1979

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996

The Runner Stumbles
1979

Humble Pie
2007

Perfect Romance
2004

Perfect Alibi
1995

Independence Day
1983

Blackout
1985

Life's an Itch
2012

Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983

After
2014

Cinema Verite
2011

Little Ladies of the Night
1977

Lucas Tanner
1974

Children of the Night
1985

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975

Breach
2007

Horns
2013

Sunday Lovers
1980

The Doors
1991

Can Ellen Be Saved?
1974

Stolen Babies
1993

The Operation
1990

Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
2003

American Graffiti
1973

Eagles in the Chicken Coop
2011

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010

Trial by Jury
1994

Dreams Lost, Dreams Found
1987

The Battle of Shaker Heights
2003

When She Says No
1984

The Missing Are Deadly
1975

Elizabeth Blue
2017

She's in the Army Now
1981

Chimera Strain
2018

The Dissection of Thanksgiving
2008

The Man Outside
1987

Blessings
2003

ADDicted
2017

Saving My Baby
2019

In the Lake of the Woods
1996

The Abduction of Saint Anne
1975

How Not to Propose
2015

The River Why
2010

The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998

The Devil Has a Name
2019

El padrino: The Latin Godfather
2004

The Stairs
2021

Walking with Herb
2021

The Doors: The Road of Excess
1997

Parallel
2018

Nightmare in Blood
1978

Lawn Dogs
1997

Holiday Hearts
—

Okay
2026

House
2004

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000

Kojak
1973

Emergency!
1972

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

The Waltons
1972

Ironside
1967

Police Woman
1974

Switch
1975

Family Law
1999

Lucas Tanner
1974

Where Are They Now?
1999

The Oscars
1953

Three for the Road
1975

Diagnosis: Murder
1993

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985

Mayans M.C.
2018

Stargate Universe
2009

Blue
2012

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999

How to Get Away with Murder
2014

Prison Break
2005

Glee
2009

Marvel's Runaways
2017

The Event
2010

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985

Hollywood Squares
1998

Joe Forrester
1975