Awards and Recognition
Plimpton has garnered three consecutive Tony Award nominations: In 2007 for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Top Girls, in the same category in 2008 for Coast of Utopia, and for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 2009 for Pal Joey. In 2002, she received an Emmy Award nomination for her performance in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She received another Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2011 for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy for her work in the first season of Raising Hope. She submitted the episode "Say Cheese." Plimpton won the 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her work as Patti Nyholm on CBS's The Good Wife.
Plimpton won the 2001 Obie Award for Outstanding Performance for Hobson's Choice. She also won the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critic's Circle Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2008 for her role in Coast of Utopia, and was nominated again for a Drama Desk Award in 2009 for Pal Joey.
In film, Plimpton has been nominated for three Young Artist Awards: Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress for Goonies, Best Young Female Superstar in Motion Pictures for The Mosquito Coast, and Best Young Actress in a Motion Picture for Running on Empty. She was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in the Best Supporting Female category for her performance in Shy People.
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