Laura Innes Filmography

Born:: August 16, 1959 in Pontiac, MI
Occupation:: Actor, Director
Biography:: Television audiences know award-winning actress Laura Innes as ER's angry Dr. Kerry Weaver. She is also an accomplished stage performer and an Emmy-nominated director with writing credits on some of the most heralded television shows. Innes was born on August 16, 1959, in Pontiac, MI. She was...Read More

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ER: Season 13

Actors: Maura Tierney, Mekhi Phifer, Parminder Nagra, John Stamos, Scott Grimes, Linda Cardellini, Goran Visnjic

2006
House: Informed Consent

Crew: Director

Synopsis: House (Hugh Laurie) doesn't have too many idols, but 71-year-old cancer researcher Ezra Powell (Joel Grey) can qualify as one of them. After collapsing in his lab, Powell is rushed to the clinic,, where the staff can't agree whether he is suffering from a heart ailment or lung disease. Frankly Read More

2006
ER: Season 12

Actors: Maura Tierney, Mekhi Phifer, Parminder Nagra, Scott Grimes, Linda Cardellini, Goran Visnjic

2005
ER: Season 11

Actors: Maura Tierney, Mekhi Phifer, Parminder Nagra, Linda Cardellini, Goran Visnjic, Noah Wyle, Ming-Na Wen, Alex Kingston

2004
ER: Season 10

Actors: Noah Wyle, Laura Innes, Sherry Stringfield, Alex Kingston, Paul McCrane, Goran Visnjic, Maura Tierney, Ming-Na Wen, Sharif Atkins, Mekhi Phifer, Linda Cardellini, Parminder Nagra

Synopsis: Season ten of ER finds Dr. John Carter (Noah Wyle) returning to Chicago County after a brief sojourn with a Doctors Without Borders project in a war-torn Congolese field hospital. Reportedly, Carter's co-worker in this project, Dr. Luka Kovac (Goran Visnjic), was killed in the fighting -- but this Read More

2003
ER: Season 09

Actors: Noah Wyle, Laura Innes, Sherry Stringfield, Alex Kingston, Paul McCrane, Goran Visnjic, Maura Tierney, Ming-Na Wen, Sharif Atkins, Mekhi Phifer

Synopsis: As season nine of ER opens, a grieving Dr. Elizabeth Corday (Alex Kingston) elects to return to the ER after the death of her husband, Mark Greene. Meanwhile, Dr. John Carter (Noah Wyle) and Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney) have survived the smallpox scare that caused the lockdown and riot at Chicago Read More

2002
ER: A Hopeless Wound

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Don Cheadle makes his first series appearance as Paul Nathan, an overaged med student who chose to enter school only after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. During his first shift, Nathan plunges in to help the other staffers treat the victims of a Halloween party fire -- whereupon his Read More

2002
ER: Sailing Away

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Abby (Maura Tierney) is forced to leave Chicago to retrieve her bipolar mother, Maggie (Sally Field), who has squirreled herself away in an Oklahoma motel room and has refused to seek out treatment for her mental condition. When Carter (Noah Wyle) offers to accompany Abby on her trip, he Read More

2001
ER: If I Should Fall from Grace

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sharif Atkins joins the series as Michael Gallant, a new medical student assigned to Carter (Noah Wyle). While making the rounds with Gallant, Carter learns to his chagrin that his grandmother (Frances Sternhagen) is now a "high-risk" patient who may die at any moment; he also helps Lewis (Sherry Stringfield Read More

2001
ER: Season 08

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Erik Palladino, Laura Innes, Sherry Stringfield, Alex Kingston, Paul McCrane, Goran Visnjic, Maura Tierney, Ming-Na Wen, Sharif Atkins, Michael Michele

Synopsis: Resolving the cliffhanger ending of season seven, season eight of the award-winning hospital drama ER surveys the damage done when the emergency room of Chicago County was besieged by a gun-wielding lunatic whose son Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards) had put in foster care. In subsequent episodes, two Read More

2001
Taking Back Our Town

Actors: Laura Innes

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Taking Back Our Town is a Lifetime original movie. Laura Innes plays Pat Melancon, a housewife and environmental activist. She forms a coalition to stop the chemical corporation Shintech from building a plant in her town. Already overly polluted, her township is known as Read More

2001
ER: Season 07

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Erik Palladino, Laura Innes, Alex Kingston, Paul McCrane, Goran Visnjic, Maura Tierney, Ming-Na Wen, Michael Michele

Synopsis: Curiously, there were no major cast defections during the seventh season of the award-winning hospital drama ER. However, two new characters make their first appearances this season: psychiatrist Dr. Kim Legaspi (Elizabeth Mitchell), who coerces ER chief Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes) to admit that Read More

2000
The West Wing: Let Bartlet Be Bartlet

Crew: Director

Actors: Dule Hill, Kathryn Joosten

2000
ER: Be Still My Heart

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Valentine's Day has a strange effect on Greene's (Anthony Edwards) cantankerous dad (John Cullum) and Corday's (Alex Kingston) judgmental mom (Judy Parfitt), who find themselves attracted to one another. Back at the ER, a private quarrel between Chen (Ming-Na Read More

2000
ER: Season 06

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, Erik Palladino, Laura Innes, Gloria Reuben, Alex Kingston, Paul McCrane, Goran Visnjic, Maura Tierney, Kellie Martin, Michael Michele

Synopsis: The impossibly obstreperous Dr. Robert Romano (Paul McCrane) matriculates from recurring to regular character as the Chicago-based hospital drama ER enters its sixth season. Other incoming cast members include Maura Tierney as OB nurse Abby Lockhart, who is introduced when she delivers the twin Read More

1999
Can't Stop Dancing

Actors: Ben Zook, Melanie Hutsell, Margaret Cho, Bruce Daniels, Michael Irpino

Synopsis: Actor Ben Zook co-wrote and co-directed this broad comedy, in which he stars as Randy Rubio, the leader of a small-time dance troupe who hasn't let his 260-pound girth get in the way of his dreams. When Randy and his fellow hoofers are told their 15-year run at a Topeka, Kansas theme park has come Read More

1999
The Price of a Broken Heart

Actors: Laura Innes, Park Overall, Timothy Carhart, Dan Byrd, Jenny Andrews

Synopsis: ER's Laura Innes heads the cast of this compelling made-for-cable domestic drama, based on a true story. North Carolinian Dot Hutlemeyer (Park Overall) sues for divorce when she discovers that her insurance-executive husband, Joe (Timothy Carhart), has been carrying on an affair with his Read More

1999
ER: Power

Crew: Director

Synopsis: During a power outage at the ER, Greene (Anthony Edwards) is forced to improvise to treat an injured utilities repairman. Elsewhere, a helpful neighbor brings in an elderly couple suffering from suspicious injuries. Carol (Julianna Margulies) tries to send word to Ross about her pregnancy, despite Read More

1999
Deep Impact

Actors: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Leelee Sobieski

Synopsis: Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker) directed this science-fiction disaster drama about the possible extinction of human life after a comet is discovered headed toward Earth with the collision only one year away. Ambitious MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) stumbles onto the story, prompting a White Read More

1998
ER: Season 05

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Gloria Reuben, Alex Kingston, Kellie Martin

Synopsis: It's another year of triumph and tragedy in the emergency room of Chicago's County General Hospital as ER enters its fifth season. New to the cast this year is Kellie Martin as inexperienced and somewhat klutzy medical student Lucy Knight, who soon proves to be a major thorn in the side of her Read More

1998
ER: Season 04

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Gloria Reuben, Alex Kingston, Maria Bello

Synopsis: Season four of ER opens with the famous "live" episode, which was originally telecast in "you are there" documentary fashion (with two separate stagings, one each for the East and West Coasts). This episode serves to introduce a new regular, British doctor Elizabeth Corday (Alex Kingston). Within Read More

1997
ER: Season 03

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Sherry Stringfield, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Season three of ER marks the (temporary) exit of Chicago County emergency-room doctor Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), whose ever-increasing emotional problems are exacerbated when her romance with Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards) fails to take off. It also marks the begining of John Carter's (Noah Wyle Read More

1996
ER: Season 02

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Sherry Stringfield, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Having all but forced its CBS medical-show competition Chicago Hope off the Thursday-night schedule, NBC's ER reigned supreme as the series entered its second season. Having wrongly assumed that he would leave Chicago County after his third year of med school, John Carter (Noah Wyle) remains on Read More

1995
Wings: Happy Holidays

Synopsis: A Merry Christmas in Nantucket? Not likely. Consider the following: Fay (Rebecca Schull) drives Helen (Crystal Bernard) crazy with her nit-picky preparations for a children's charity Christmas party; Brian (Steven Weber) is having trouble working up the nerve to meet Alex's (Farrah Forke) parents; Read More

1993
Torch Song

Actors: Raquel Welch, Jack Scalia, Alicia Silverstone, George Newbern, Laura Innes

1993
And the Band Played On

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

1993
Wings: Bye-Bye, Bunny

Synopsis: After much foot-dragging, Lowell (Thomas Haden Church) concludes that the time has come to finalize his divorce from his wife Bunny (Laura Innes). However, within 24 hours the couple has landed back in the sack and are comporting themselves like giggling newlyweds. Alas, Bunny is still as Read More

1993
Telling Secrets

Synopsis: Cybill Shepherd takes a ride into the dark side in this two-part TV movie, purported based on a true story. Shepherd is cast as wealthy and seductive Phoenix socialite Faith Kelsey, who opts not to get mad but to get even when her husband, Terry (Christopher McDonald), enters into an affair with Read More

1993
Wings: Another Wedding

Synopsis: There's plenty of unexpected activity at the wedding of air-terminal habitué Walter (Ralph Bruneau). Hoping to save face in front of his estranged wife Bunny (Laura Innes), Lowell (Thomas Haden Church) palms off Alex (Farrah Forke) as his new girlfriend "Yvette." Eternally moonstruck Antonio (Tony Shalhoub Read More

1993
Desperate Rescue

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Clancy Brown, James Russo, Jeff Kober, Lindsey Haun

Synopsis: Like its theatrical-feature precursor Not Without My Daughter, the made-for-TV Desperate Rescue is based on a true story, though it would appear that several liberties have been taken. Mariel Hemingway plays a young mother whose daughter Lindsay Haun is abducted by Andrew Masset, Mariel's Read More

1992
Wings: I Ain't Got No Bunny

Synopsis: The marriage between the usually laid-back Lowell (Thomas Haden Church) and his bride Bunny (a pre-ER Laura Innes) is imperiled by Lowell's jealousy. Assuming that Lowell's suspicions are unfounded and irrational, Brian (Steven Weber) generously offers to act as mediator and discuss the situation Read More

1991
The Fury

Actors: Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, Amy Irving, Andrew Stevens

Synopsis: Brian De Palma returns to the mind-blowing potential of telekinesis in the follow-up to his 1976 horror hit Carrie. While vacationing with his psychic son, Robin (Andrew Stevens), and close associate Childress (John Cassavetes), government agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) survives a terrorist Read More

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