Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Goin' South | Julia Tate / Moon | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress |
| 1979 | Time After Time | Amy Robbins | Won – Saturn Award for Best Actress |
| 1980 | Melvin and Howard | Lynda Dummar | Won: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 1981 | Ragtime | Mother | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture |
| 1982 | A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy | Adrian | |
| 1983 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Mary / Little Red Riding Hood | Little Red Riding Hood |
| Cross Creek | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | ||
| Romantic Comedy | Phoebe Craddock | ||
| 1985 | One Magic Christmas | Ginny Hanks Grainger | Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
| Tender Is the Night | Nicole Warren Diver | Nominated: British Academy Television Award for Best Actress CableACE Award for Actress in a Movie or Miniseries |
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| 1987 | The Whales of August | Young Sarah | |
| Dead of Winter | Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn | ||
| 1988 | The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank | Miep Gies | Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
| End of the Line | Rose Pickett | ||
| 1989 | Parenthood | Karen Buckman | |
| Miss Firecracker | Elain Rutledge | Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
| 1990 | The Long Walk Home | Narrator voice | |
| Back to the Future Part III | Clara Clayton | Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
| 1991 | The Butcher's Wife | Stella Keefover | Did her own singing |
| Back to the Future: The Animated Series | Clara Clayton-Brown | Voice | |
| 1993 | Philadelphia | Belinda Conine | |
| What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Betty Carver | ||
| 1994 | Pontiac Moon | Katherine Bellamy | |
| The Gift | TV | ||
| It Runs in the Family | Mrs. Parker (mother) | ||
| Clifford | Sarah Davis | ||
| 1995 | Nixon | Hannah Nixon | Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| The Grass Harp | Sister Ida | ||
| My Family | Gloria | ||
| Powder | Jesse | ||
| 1996 | Gulliver's Travels | Mary Gulliver | TV miniseries |
| Ink | Kate Montgomery | TV Series | |
| 1998 | About Sarah | Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey | Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| 1999 | Noah's Ark | Naamah | TV |
| 2000 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Herself | 4 episodes |
| Picnic | Rosemary Sydney | TV | |
| 2001 | I Am Sam | Dr. Blake | |
| Life as a House | Colleen Beck | ||
| The Trumpet of the Swan | Mother | Voice | |
| Nobody's Baby | Estelle | ||
| 2002 | Wish You Were Dead | Sally Rider | Nominated – DVD Premiere Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| Sunshine State | Francine Pinkney | ||
| Talking to Heaven / Living with the Dead | Detective Karen Condrin | TV | |
| Law and Order: Special Victims Unit | Grace Rinato | Episode: "Denial" | |
| 2003–05 | Joan of Arcadia | Helen Girardi | Won – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Television Series |
| 2003 | Elf | Emily Hobbs | |
| Casa de los Babys | Gayle | ||
| Hope Springs | Joanie Fisher | ||
| 2004 | Capital City | Elaine Summer | TV |
| It Must Be Love | Clem Gazelle | TV | |
| 2005 | Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School | Marienne Hotchkiss | |
| 2006 | The Dead Girl | Beverley, Leah's Mother | |
| Inland Empire | Visitor #2 | ||
| 2007 | Reinventing the Wheelers | Claire Wheeler | TV |
| Elvis and Anabelle | Geneva | ||
| Numb | Dr. Cheryl Blaine | ||
| Nobel Son | Sarah Michaelson | ||
| The Brave One | Carol | ||
| Honeydripper | Amanda Winship | ||
| 2008 | Step Brothers | Nancy Huff | |
| Four Christmases | Marilyn | ||
| 2009 | In the Electric Mist | Bootsie Robicheaux | |
| The Open Road | Katherine | ||
| The Proposal | Grace Paxton | ||
| Did You Hear About the Morgans? | Emma Wheeler | ||
| 2010 | Dirty Girl | Peggy | |
| 2011 | The Help | Elain Stein | Won – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| Bored to Death | Josephine | 4 episodes | |
| Wilfred | Ryan's Mother Katherine | 2 episodes | |
| 2012 | 30 Rock | Diana Jessup | 3 episodes |
| 2013 | Last Vegas | Diana |
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