Grace Zabriskie Movies and Career Information

Grace Zabriskie (born May 17, 1941) is an American actress. She has appeared in many popular American films and television series such as The Grudge and Child's Play 2. Zabriskie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her father founded Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop and Lafitte's in Exile, a cafe and bar on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, and Zabriskie has said that her family was visited by Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote during her childhood. After making her major film debut in 1979's Norma Rae, Zabriskie went on to appear in dozens of other works, including the 1981 miniseries adaptation of John Steinbeck's East of Eden, 1981's The Private Eyes, as the nanny; as Paula's mother in An Officer and A Gentleman; as Paul Le Mat's mother in 1984's The Burning Bed starring Farrah Fawcett; in 1989's Drugstore Cowboy; as the ill-fated orphanage owner Grace Poole in Child's Play 2, the 1991 film adaptation Fried Green Tomatoes; and in Philip Ridley's 1995 film The Passion of Darkly Noon. Zabriskie is perhaps most familiar, however, for her television work. After appearing in a recurring role on the soap opera Santa Barbara, she played a major role on the David Lynch series Twin