Jean SmartFilmography

Born:: January 1, 1952 in Seattle, WA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Don't let actress Jean Smart's filmography fool you, because though she seems to have a penchant for appearing in fairly light-hearted fare of the family-oriented variety, she possesses all the skill of the most talented dramatic stage and screen actresses around. Unafraid to take the sort of...Read More

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Youth in Revolt

Actors: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Steve Buscemi, Zach Galifianakis, Ray Liotta

Synopsis: Superbad's Michael Cera discovers a vacation romance in Youth in Revolt, a teen comedy from Charlie Bartlett's screenwriter, Gustin Nash, and director Miguel Arteta (Chuck & Buck). The film is an adaptation of C.D. Payne's first book in a series of best-selling satirical novels starring Nick Read More

1/15/10
Hero Wanted

Actors: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ray Liotta, Norman Reedus, Tommy Flanagan, Christa Campbell

Synopsis: Ray Liotta and Cuba Gooding, Jr. star in this tense crime thriller concerning a small town trash collector whose dangerous plan to impress a pretty girl goes tragically awry. Liam Case (Gooding, Jr.) is a garbage man whose life hasn't quite turned out the way he expected it would. In order to Read More

2008
Samantha Who?: Season 02

Actors: Christina Applegate, Jennifer Esposito, Kevin Dunn, Melissa McCarthy, Tim Russ

2008
Lucky You

Actors: Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Debra Messing, Horatio Sanz

Synopsis: A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer in a high-stakes emotional drama from L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson Read More

5/4/07
24: Day 6, 6:00 PM-7:00 PM

Synopsis: CTU's Mike Doyle (Ricky Schroder) is tasked with saving Jack from the Russians. Meanwhile, Logan seeks the help of his ex-wife Martha. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
24: Season 05

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: The threat to the United States in Season 5's white-knuckle day is Russian separatists armed with weaponized nerve gas and led by Vladimir Bierko (Julian Sands). Inciting their ire is an arms and mutual defense treaty that Russian president Yuri Suvarov (Nick Jameson) plans on signing with the Read More

2006
I Heart Huckabees

Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law

Synopsis: Five years after achieving commercial and critical success with his film Three Kings, director and screenwriter David O. Russell returns to the more idiosyncratic territory of his earlier work with this intelligent and offbeat comedy. Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) are a Read More

10/1/04
Garden State

Actors: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Jean Smart

Synopsis: In the wake of his success on the hit NBC sitcom Scrubs, actor Zach Braff made his debut behind the camera writing, directing, and starring in this bittersweet romantic comedy. Braff plays Andrew Largeman, a young man who has just received word of his mother's passing. With this news, Andrew Read More

7/30/04
Center of the Universe [TV Series]

Actors: John Goodman, Jean Smart, Diedrich Bader, Melinda McGraw, Spencer Breslin

2004
A Very Married Christmas

Synopsis: Having lived a respectable and rather dull existence for most of his time on earth, database designer Frank Griffin (Joe Mantegna) is rudely awakened from his ennui when his wife Ellen (Jean Smart) announces that she is having an affair and wants a divorce. Although the couple agrees to stay Read More

2004
Balto III: Wings of Change

Synopsis: Noble dog Balto returns in this direct-to-video sequel to the popular animated adventure that bears his name. Balto (voice of Maurice LaMarche) has retired from his chores as a sled dog, and his son Kodi (voice of Sean Astin) has taken his place. But Kodi's livelihood may be in danger when mail Read More

2004
Bringing Down the House

Actors: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Jean Smart

Synopsis: A man looking for a woman just like himself ends up with someone quite different in this farcical comedy. Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is a lawyer who is having trouble getting his life back on track after his wife, Kate (Jean Smart), divorces him; he's also adjusting to his new status as a Read More

3/7/03
Audrey's Rain

Actors: Jean Smart, Richard Gilliland, Carol Kane, Kristina Malota, August T. Jones

Synopsis: Having promised her dying mother that she would always look after her two young siblings (one of whom is mentally challenged), Audrey Walker (Jean Smart) has deliberately closed herself off from romantic relationships -- and indeed, from most of the other pleasures in life. Now in middle age Read More

2003
Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candace Long

Actors: Jean Smart, A. Martinez, Robert Joy, Peter MacNeill, Robin Brûlé

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this made-for-cable crime drama stars Jean Smart as veteran FBI agent and divorced mother Candace Long. Burned out by years of tracking down this most vicious criminals in America, Long is about to take a well-deserved retirement and devote her energies to her family and her Read More

2003
The Designing Women Reunion

Actors: Meshach Taylor, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Jean Smart

Synopsis: The cast and creators of the popular sitcom Designing Women are reassembled in this hour-long special originally telecast on the Lifetime cable channel. Yielding 164 episodes from 1986 to 1993, Designing Women centered around the Atlanta design firm headquartered in the home of loquacious feminist Read More

2003
Sweet Home Alabama

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: After establishing herself as a bankable star with the fish out of water comedy Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon returns in what could be described as a "fish back in water" comedy. Melanie Carmichael (Witherspoon) is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating Andrew Hennings (Patrick Dempsey Read More

9/27/02
Baby Time: Baby Talk - The Video Guide for New Parents

Synopsis: First-time parents often have a zillion questions and are embarrassed to ask some of them for fear of seeming unprepared for the task. Hosted by Designing Women star Jean Smart and her husband, Richard Gilliland, Baby Talk: The Video Guide for New Parents details how to care for a newborn and Read More

2002
In-Laws [TV Series]

Actors: Jean Smart, Dennis Farina, Elon Gold, Bonnie Somerville

Synopsis: This NBC sitcom was rather blatantly inspired by the movie comedy hit Meet the Parents. According to network publicity, however, In-Laws was primarily based on the standup routines of comedian Elon Gold, who starred in the series as newlywed Max Landis. Quitting his job to enroll in culinary Read More

2002
Kim Possible [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Christy Romano

Synopsis: This weekly animated series revolved around a feisty high school girl named Kim Possible. The daughter of research scientists, Kim did her best to lead a normal teenaged life, going to class, attending proms, and the like. Unfortunately, the world was full pesky master criminals and megalomaniacal Read More

2002
Frasier: A Day in May

Synopsis: Yes, it's a day in May, and a very busy one for the Frasier gang. First off, Daphne (Jane Leeves) befriends a dog lover named Jim (Tom Verica), which makes Niles (David Hyde Pierce) jealous. Second, the caustic Lana (Jean Smart) suddenly warms up to Frasier (David Hyde Pierce). And finally, Martin Read More

2001
Frasier: A Passing Fancy

Synopsis: In this follow-up to the previous episode "Semi-Decent Proposal", Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) has fallen for Claire (Patricia Clarkson), the attractive friend of cynical divorcée Lana Gardner (Jean Smart). Hoping to take advantage of the situation, Lana offers to fix Frasier up with Claire--but only Read More

2001
Frasier: Semi-Decent Proposal

Synopsis: Jean Smart reprises her Emmy-winning role as Frasier's former high- school crush Lana Gardner (who was given a different character name in her first appearance -- a name that had to be altered for legal reasons). Now a successful and overbearingly cynical real-estate agent, Lana still believes Read More

2001
Frasier: Don Juan in Hell, Part 2

Synopsis: In the concluding half of Frasier's ninth-season opener, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) continues mulling over the past loves of his life as he tries to choose between his current amours Claire (Patricia Clarkson) and Lana (Jean Smart). In a surrealistic climax, virtually all of Frasier's women from Read More

2001
Frasier: Don Juan in Hell, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of Frasier's ninth-season opener, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) finds himself on familiar territory as he is torn between two loves: Claire (Patricia Clarkson), with whom he'd vacationed in Belize in the series' season-eight finale, and Lana (Jean Smart), a troublesome but undeniably Read More

2001
Frasier: Cranes Go Caribbean

Synopsis: Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is eagerly anticipating his vacation in Belize with his new lady love Claire (Patricia Clarkson). But his eagerness quickly dissipates when Martin (John Mahoney), Niles (David Hyde Pierce), and Daphne (Jane Leeves) decide to go along for the ride. The story climaxes with a Read More

2001
The Oblongs [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Jean Smart, Will Ferrell, Jeannie Elias

2001
Disney's The Kid

Actors: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Chi McBride

Synopsis: If you could talk to the child that you used to be, what advice would you give him? That question forms the basis of this comic fantasy. Forty-year-old Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis) is a wealthy and powerful "image consultant" who has made a career out of telling people how to present themselves. But Read More

7/7/00
Snow Day

Actors: Chris Elliott, Mark Webber, Jean Smart, Schuyler Fisk, Iggy Pop

Synopsis: It's the day children dream of and parents dread: a sudden snowstorm causes the cancellation of school, giving kids a day off and their folks one more thing to worry about. Snow Day traces what happens in an upstate New York town when a thick layer of white stuff forces local schools to take a day Read More

2/11/00
The Man Who Came to Dinner

Synopsis: The Man Who Came to Dinner, written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, has been one of the more enduring comedies in American theater. Apart from being filmed most successfully in 1941 at Warner Bros. with Monty Woolley and Bette Davis in the lead roles, it has enjoyed some 500 productions in the Read More

2000
Frasier: Big Crane on Campus

Synopsis: Jean Smart won an Emmy Award for her riotous performance as Lorna Lynley, one-time prom queen at Frasier's high school. Escorting Lorna to his call reunion, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is thrilled beyond words at being in the presence of his former dream girl. Unfortunately, the intervening years Read More

2000
Guinevere

Actors: Stephen Rea, Sarah Polley, Jean Smart, Gina Gershon, Paul Dooley

Synopsis: Writer Audrey Wells (The Truth About Cats and Dogs) makes her directing debut in Guinevere, which won the screenwriting award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, where it made its world premiere. The film concerns Harper Sloane, a twenty-something upper class pre-law student who falls for Connie Read More

9/24/99
Style & Substance

Actors: Jean Smart, Nancy McKeon, Heath Hyche, Linda Kash, Joseph Maher

1998
The Odd Couple II

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Christine Baranski, Barnard Hughes, Jonathan Silverman

Synopsis: Howard Deutch directed this sequel to the The Odd Couple (1968), originally adapted from the 1965 Broadway comedy by Neil Simon. Thirty years later, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) and retired sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau) meet at LAX and drive a rental car across the desert to attend the Read More

1998
Change of Heart

Actors: Jean Smart, John Terry, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: A marriage explodes when a loving wife, who heretofore thought she had the perfect life, finds her husband in bed with another man. After the initial shock, the two struggle to find peace, acceptance and to rebuild their shattered lives. This drama was made especially for the Lifetime cable Read More

1998
Edie & Pen

Actors: Stockard Channing, Jennifer Tilly, Scott Glenn, Beverly D'Angelo, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband abandoned her two weeks after the wedding. Pen spent nine years married to an ice-cold businessman who neglected her. Edie and Pen meet while leaving Read More

1996
Undue Influence

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Patricia Richardson, Jean Smart, Alan Rosenberg, Joe Grifasi

Synopsis: Just in case the title didn't spill the beans, this made-for-TV nail-biter was based on a novel by Steve Martini. In the midst of a bitter child-custody battle with her former husband, Jack (Richard Masur), Laurel Vega (Patricia Richardson) is accused of murdering Jack's new, pregnant wife Read More

1996
The Brady Bunch Movie

Actors: Christine Taylor, Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Michael McKean, Jean Smart, Henriette Mantel

Synopsis: The Brady Bunch Movie pays tribute to the 1970s TV show while poking gentle fun at it. The Brady family, led by father Mike (Gary Cole), still live in their suburban, split-level home and are still throwbacks to the era that spawned them. Eternally perky wife Carol (Shelley Long) is the perfect Read More

1995
A Stranger in Town

Actors: Jean Smart, Gregory Hines, Jeffrey Nordling

Synopsis: A desperate mother looking to escape her past is faced with a harrowing decision in this made for television thriller starring Jean Smart and Gregory Hines. All Kay (Smart) wants is to live in peace and care for her sickly nine-month-old son. Upon arriving in a small Southern town where no one Read More

1995
The Yearling

Actors: Peter Strauss, Jean Smart, Wil Horneff, Jarred Blanchard, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: This moving made-for-TV movie is a faithful rendition of Marjorie Kinan Rawling's timeless coming-of-age tale in which a boy living a hardscrabble life with his family in a Florida swamp must grow-up and face his responsibilities after he befriends an orphaned fawn. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

1994
Scarlett

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Timothy Dalton, Barbara Barrie, Stephen Collins

Synopsis: This much-ballyhooed TV miniseries sequel to Gone with the Wind finds former Agent 007 Timothy Dalton reprising the tough-to-fill shoes of Clark Gable's Rhett Butler, and former Val Kilmer spouse Joanne Whalley-Kilmer beating out thousands of hopefuls to play what was once Vivien Leigh's Scarlett Read More

1994
Yarn Princess

Actors: Jean Smart, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: In this moving drama, a mentally retarded woman is aided by a diligent attorney in her battle to keep her children from being placed in foster care. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Actors: Robert Hays, Kim Greist, Jean Smart, Michael J. Fox, Benji Thall, Don Ameche, Veronica Lauren, Sally Field

Synopsis: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Disney's 1993 remake of the 1963 hit The Incredible Journey, follows three household pets as they travel across mountains and plains on their way to find their owners. A misunderstanding leads the animals to mistakenly believe that they have been abandoned Read More

1993
Mistress

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Successful character actor Barry Primus spent seven years trying to get financing for his feature debut as a writer-director, Mistress. In the film, a once-promising writer-director, Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl), who now directs instructional videos, is sitting home one night, watching his own Read More

8/7/92
Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story

Actors: Jean Smart, Park Overall, Tim Grimm, Ernie Lively, Geoffrey Rivas

Synopsis: Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story stars Jean Smart as the title character. One of the rare female serial killers on record, Wuornos was eventually charged with murdering seven men on lonely Florida roads. The killing spree took place between 1990 and 1991, thus this 1992 TV movie could pat itself Read More

1992
A Seduction in Travis County

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Coyote, Jean Smart, Matt Clark, Don Hood

Synopsis: "Saying 'no' to Melanie could lead to murder--and more." Thus did the CBS Network publicity department lure the viewer into watching the made-for-TV Seduction in Travis County. Based liberally on fact, the film stars Lesley Ann Warren as an accused murderer. Peter Coyote is the dynamic, married Read More

1991
Locked Up: A Mother's Rage

Synopsis: When a woman is falsely convicted for selling drugs, she asks her sister to raise her young children in this true story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Designing Women: Season 05

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

1990
Designing Women: Season 04

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

1989
Designing Women: Season 03

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

1988
Project X

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, Bill Sadler, Johnny Ray McGhee, Jonathan Stark

Synopsis: Project X is a top-secret government undertaking involving trained chimpanzees. Grounded pilot Matthew Broderick, assigned to teach the chimps how to operate a flight simulator, discovers that his charges are to be subjected to high levels of radiation to test potential human endurance. Risking a Read More

4/17/87
Designing Women: Season 02

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

1987
Fire with Fire

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Virginia Madsen, Jon Polito, Kate Reid

Synopsis: A juvenile delinquent falls in love with a beautiful Catholic girl's school student in this fact-based adolescent melodrama set in an Oregon forest. The two meet by accident when the troubled young man is out on a nature hike and sees the lovely girl floating in a small lake as she works on a Read More

5/9/86
A Fight for Jenny

Actors: Drew Snyder

Synopsis: First telecast October 6, 1986, A Fight for Jenny is the compelling study of an interracial couple's struggle for happiness. White Kelsey Wilkes (Leslie Ann Warren) is married to African American David Caldwell (Philip Michael Thomas). Casting a shadow over the couple is Kelsey's first husband Ben Read More

1986
Designing Women: Season 01

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

1986
A Place for Jenny

Synopsis: In this drama an interracial couple in the South tries to build a new life despite the racial discrimination they face. They are hindered by the bride's ex-husband who has filed a custody suit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Alice: Jolene is Stuck on Mel

Synopsis: Jolene (Celia Weston) is thrilled when TV game show host Harry Parker (John McCook) proposes marriage. But she begins to wonder if such a union is possible after she manages to super-glue herself to boss Mel (Vic Tayback). Jean Smart of Designing Women and 24 fame makes an early TV appearance in Read More

1984
Protocol

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Andre Gregory, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: In this routine spoof of government and media foibles, Sunny (Goldie Hawn) is an ordinary cocktail waitress, someone who graduated in the top 75% of her class. When she dramatically prevents the assassination of a visiting dignitary, an Emir (Richard Romanus) from an Arab country. the event puts Read More

1984
Flashpoint

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway, Kurtwood Smith, Tess Harper

Synopsis: Bob Logan (Kris Kristofferson) and Ernie Wyatt (Treat Williams) are freewheeling U.S. border patrol officers in a tiny Texas town. Though they're "oil and water" in terms of personality, they're a dynamite team on the job. Coming across a million dollars in stolen money, their relationship Read More

1984
Maximum Security

Synopsis: A model prisoner does what he can to prevent suffering a mental breakdown while coping with the unbearable conditions in the jail. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
Single Bars, Single Women

Actors: Shelley Hack, Paul Michael Glaser, Tony Danza, Keith Gordon, Christine Lahti

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a group of lonely, unattached people meet up in a local bar in search of love and friendship. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1984

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