Lindsay Crouse

Lindsay Ann Crouse (born May 12, 1948)<ref name="NotT: L&FGP">Template:Cite news</ref> is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the 1972 revival of Much Ado About Nothing and appeared in her first film in 1976 in All the President's Men. For her role in the 1984 film Places in the Heart, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Slap Shot (1977), Between the Lines (1977), The Verdict (1982), Prefontaine (1997), and The Insider (1999). She also had a leading role in the 1987 film House of Games, which was directed by her then-husband David Mamet. In 1996, she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for "Between Mother and Daughter", a CBS Schoolbreak Special episode. She is also a Grammy Award nominee.

Early life

Crouse was born at Le Roy Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side,<ref name="NotT: L&FGP"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> the daughter of Anna (née Erskine)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Russel Crouse, the playwright and librettist.<ref name="NotT: L&FGP"/> Her maternal grandparents were author and educator John Erskine and his wife Pauline Ives.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Lindsay Ann Crouse's full name is an intentional tribute to the Broadway writing partnership of Lindsay and Crouse, which consisted of her father and his writing partner, Howard Lindsay. The two wrote much of The Sound of Music.<ref>Killeen, Wendy. "Crouse plays the belle." Boston Globe. July 22, 2007</ref> Their 1946 play State of the Union won that year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Their last collaboration was Mr. President in 1962. As Crouse has said: "In our family, the work ethic was held up as some kind of byword ... At any hour, somebody's typewriter was going."<ref name=PCOLNYT1>"Lindsay Crouse keeps up a Family Stage Tradition." New York Times. January 2, 1981.</ref>

Career

After graduating from the Chapin School in 1966<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and Radcliffe College in 1970,<ref name=PCOLNYT1/> Crouse began her performing career as a modern and jazz dancer, but she soon switched to acting and made her Broadway debut in Much Ado About Nothing in 1972.<ref>Zucker, Carole (1995). Figures of Light: Actors and Directors Illuminate the Art of Film Acting. Springer Science + Business Media, LLC. p. 12. Template:ISBN.</ref> She received her acting training at HB Studio<ref>HB Studio Alumni</ref> in New York City.

Crouse's film career began in 1976, with small roles in television and theatrical movies. In 1977, she appeared as Lily Braden, the discontented wife of hockey player Ned Braden in Slap Shot. In 1982 she appeared as the decisive witness in The Verdict. Crouse was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1984 movie Places in the Heart. Among her films was a starring role in House of Games, the 1987 film directed and written by her then-husband David Mamet, in which she plays Margaret Ford, a psychiatrist who is intrigued by the art of the con. "It's always hard to be directed by someone who's close to you," Crouse says. "Because everybody needs to go home and complain about the director. Everybody."<ref>Clements, Warren. "A Master in the Art of the Con." The Globe and Mail. August 31, 2007</ref>

Crouse has appeared in featured and guest roles in a number of television series. Notable roles include a recurring portrayal of Kate McBride, a lesbian police officer on Hill Street Blues during its sixth season in 1986. This was the first lesbian recurring character on a major network.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Crouse is also known for her role in the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where she was a recurring supporting cast member playing Professor Maggie Walsh. Crouse has also guest-starred on Alias, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Columbo, Criminal Minds, Law & Order, ER, Millennium, and NYPD Blue.

In recent years, Crouse has concentrated on the theater. "Once you get your driver's license, you end your film career," says Crouse. "Look at my generation. Great actresses like Glenn Close and Susan Sarandon—there's nothing written for anyone over a certain age."<ref>Beggy, Carol and Mark Shanahan. "Crouse: No complaints." Boston Globe. July 20, 2007.</ref> In 2007, Crouse opened a revival of The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman show about the life of poet Emily Dickinson, at the Gloucester Stage in Gloucester, Massachusetts. "You can't stop and recite something," says Crouse. "You have to keep the poetry very, very active, which is pretty easy with Dickinson. She was striving so hard to understand what life was about. It's very dramatic poetry in that way.<ref>"The 'belle' of Gloucester." Template:Webarchive Innews Weekly. July 25, 2007.</ref>

Crouse appeared in Lee Blessing's Going to St. Ives with the Gloucester Stage Company during the summer of 2008<ref>Pope, Jeff. "Gloucester Stage Company plans five plays, Sunday readings for 29th season." Template:Webarchive Gloucester Times. April 18, 2008.]</ref> and provided the narration for Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place, a documentary film about Virginia Lee Burton.<ref name=PCOLWicked>"North Shore Film Festival wraps up on May 8 and 9." Template:Webarchive Wicked Local Manchester. May 7, 2008.]</ref> In 2021, she appeared in a limited engagement of Mornings at Seven at Broadway's Theatre at St. Clements.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

After a relationship with Robert Duvall,<ref name=stevenson19770905>Template:Cite news</ref> Crouse married playwright David Mamet in 1977. The two had met during the production on Slap Shot.<ref name=PCOLNYT2>"For Mamet and Crouse, A Movie is a Family Affair." New York Times. October 11, 1987.</ref> John Lahr writes in his book Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles that when Mamet married Crouse in 1977, he "married into show business aristocracy". Lahr also writes that Mamet received his first screenwriting assignment through Crouse. Crouse was on her way to audition for Bob Rafelson's 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice, and jokingly Mamet told Crouse to tell Rafelson that "he was a fool if he didn't hire me to write the screenplay." But Crouse said this to Rafelson, who called Mamet; when the director asked why he should hire him for the screenplay, Mamet replied, "Because I'll give you a good screenplay or a sincere apology." Mamet received the job.<ref name=PCOLShownadtell>Template:Cite book</ref> She and Mamet divorced in 1990.<ref name=PCOLTheatredatabase>"David Mamet (1947–)." Theatre Database.</ref> Their marriage produced two daughters, Willa and Zosia Mamet.

Crouse's brother is Timothy Crouse, author of The Boys on the Bus about political journalism during the 1972 presidential campaign.

Buddhist beliefs

Crouse is a Buddhist. In 2005, she organized an annual Buddhist educational program, originally held at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts in Rockport, Massachusetts,<ref>McCarthy, Gail. "Actress brings third annual Buddhist retreat to Rockport." Template:Webarchive Gloucester Daily Times. July 23, 2007.</ref> and then in 2010 moved to The Governor's Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web

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[Buddhism] is not an exclusive club. It has something to offer everyone at all levels ... Buddhism is dynamic and has captured the interests of Americans. Even our quantum physics validate[s] ideas the Buddha taught 2,500 years ago.<ref>McCarthy, Gail. McCarthy. "Actress brings Buddhist retreat to Windhover." Glouster Daily Times. August 25, 2005.</ref>{{#if:|{{#if:|}}

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Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	All the President's Men	Kay Eddy
1977	Slap Shot	Lily Braden
1977	Between the Lines	Abbie
1981	Prince of the City	Carla Ciello
1982	Template:Sortname	Kaitlin Costello
1983	Krull	Princess Lyssa (voice)
1983	Daniel	Rochelle Isaacson
1984	Iceman	Dr. Diane Brady
1984	Places in the Heart	Margaret Lomax
1987	House of Games	Margaret Ford
1989	Brave Irene	Narrator (voice)	Short subject
1989	Communion	Anne Strieber
1990	Desperate Hours	Brenda Chandler
1994	Being Human	Janet
1995	Bye Bye Love	Grace Damico
1995	Template:Sortname	Jane
1996	Template:Sortname	Tallow
1996	Template:Sortname	Ilana Green
1997	Prefontaine	Elfriede Prefontaine
1998	Progeny	Dr. Susan Lamarche
1999	Stranger in My House	Patti Young
1999	Template:Sortname	Sharon Tiller
2000	One Hell of a Guy	Judge Davis
2001	Almost Salinas	Allie
2001	Impostor	Chancellor
2002	Cherish	Therapist
2007	Mr. Brooks	Captain Lister
2013	Somewhere Slow	Katherine Franklin
2023	Chantilly Bridge	Rheza

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Eleanor and Franklin	Marjorie Bennett	TV film
1976	Template:Sortname	Karen	TV film
1977	Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years	Marjorie Bennett	TV film
1980	Paul's Case	First Actress	TV film
1981	Summer Solstice	Young Maggie Burnside	TV film
1982	Kennedy's Children	Rona	TV film
1985	ABC Afterschool Special	Louise Sanders	Episode: "I Want to Go Home"
1986–1987	Hill Street Blues	Kate McBride	Recurring role (5 episodes)
1987	Template:Sortname	Sarah McGee	Episode: "Solo"
1988	American Playhouse	Ronnie	Episode: "Lemon Sky"
1989	Columbo	Dr. Joan Allenby	Episode: "Sex and the Married Detective"
1989	CBS Summer Playhouse	Annie Holscher	Episode: "American Nuclear"
1990	Everyday Heroes	Janet Florine	TV film
1990	Lifestories	Rebecca McManus	Episode: "Rebecca McManus and Steve Arnold"
1990	L.A. Law	Sharon Cummings	Episode: "Outward Bound"
1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Mrs. Grant (voice)	Episode: "I've Got Batman in My Basement"
1993	Murder, She Wrote	Louise Anderson-Crowe	Episode: "Killer Radio"
1993	Civil Wars	Dianne Ralston	Episodes: "Captain Kangaroo Court", "A Liver Runs Through It"
1993	Chantilly Lace	Rheza	TV film
1993	Final Appeal	Dana Cartier	TV film
1993	Law & Order	Diane Meade	Episode: "Promises to Keep"
1993	Template:Sortname	Additional Voices	TV film
1994	Out of Darkness	Kim Donaldson	TV film
1994	Traps	Laura Parkhurst	Recurring role (5 episodes)
1994	L.A. Law	Sharon Cummings	Episode: "Finish Line"
1994	Parallel Lives	Una Pace	TV film
1995	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Anna Leone	Episode: "Between Mother and Daughter"
1996	ER	Dr. Anna Castiglioni	Episode: "Baby Shower"
1996	Norma Jean & Marilyn	Natasha Lytess	TV film
1996	If These Walls Could Talk	Frances White	Segment, "1996"
1996	Millennium	Ardis Cohen	Episode: "Kingdom Come"
1996–1997	NYPD Blue	Jane Wallace	Episodes: "Ted and Carey's Bogus Adventure", "Alice Doesn't Fit Here Anymore"
1998	Brimstone	Dr. Julia Martin	Episode: "Heat"
1999	Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Caroline Ingalls	TV film
1999	Template:Sortname	Gwen Sawyer	Episode: "Tribunal"
1999	Touched by an Angel	Kate	Episode: "Such a Time as This"
1999	Law & Order	Judge Denise Grobman	Episode: "DNR"
1999–2000	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Prof. Maggie Walsh	Recurring role (9 episodes)
2001	Template:Sortname	Maureen Redmond	TV film
2001-2002	Providence	Lauren MacKenzie	Recurring role (4 episodes)
2002	Frasier	Peg	Episodes: "Juvenilia", "The Proposal"
2002	Template:Sortname	Donna B. / Julie M.	Episode: "Forgive Me, Father"
2002	Alias	Dr. Carson Evans	Episode: "The Prophecy"
2002	Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Caroline Ingalls	TV film
2002	Arliss	Sharon 'Sydney' Perelli	Episode: "The Immortal"
2003	Hack	Beth Kulvicki	Episodes: "Forgive, But Don't Forget", "Black Eye", "Sinners and Saints", "All Others Pay Cash"
2003	Dragnet	Captain Ruth Hagermann	Recurring role (6 episodes)
2004	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Dr. Mona Lavelle	Episode: "Ch-Ch-Changes"
2005	Law & Order	Judge Deirdre Hellstrom	Episode: "Red Ball"
2005	Criminal Minds	Mary Mays	Episode: "Blood Hungry"
2007	Drive	The Boss	Episode: "Rearview"
2009–2011	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Judge Andrews	Recurring role (7 episodes)
2010	FlashForward	Mrs. Kirby	Episodes: "Revelation Zero: Parts 1 & 2"

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• Lindsay Crouse brings third annual Buddhist retreat to Rockport
• Lindsay Crouse Summer Retreat in Massachusetts web site
• Lindsay Crouse web site
• Lindsay Crouse's Buddhist Teachings posted online at ACI-LA
• Lindsay Crouse's additional Buddhist teachings posted online