Rosie O'Donnell Filmography

The Big Gay Sketch Show [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Nip/Tuck: Season 05

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson, John Hensley

Celine Dion: These Are Special Times

The Lady in Question is Charles Busch

Actors: Charles Busch

Synopsis: When East Village theater Renaissance man Charles Busch's sexually salacious Vampire Lesbians of Sodom first premiered on the New York stage in 1984, few would have suspected that the cross-dressing slice of kitsch theater would eventually be honored as one of the longest-running shows in Read More

All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Entertainer Rosie O'Donnell, her wife, Kelli, and their children set sail for the Bahamas with 500 other gay, lesbian, and transgendered families in this television documentary. All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise goes behind the scenes of the 2004 inaugural voyage of R Family Vacations, a gay Read More

Nip/Tuck: Season 04

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson, John Hensley, Roma Maffia

Riding the Bus with My Sister

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Rosie O'Donnell, Richard T. Jones, D.W. Moffett, Jazzmin Parker, Emily Swiss

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this "Hallmark Hall of Fame" TV movie was produced by Rosie O'Donnell, who also stars as the profoundly mentally challenged Beth Simon. When Beth's father dies, her sister, Rachel (Andie MacDowell), a brittle, self-absorbed fashion photographer, takes charge of Beth -- who Read More

Pursuit of Equality

Synopsis: Filmmakers Geoff Callan and Mike Shaw examine the shifting perception of legal unions in 21st Century America with this documentary centering on the subject of same-sex marriage. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was just thirty-five days into his term when, on February 12, 2004, he gave San Read More

The Party's Over

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Actors and political activists come together to take a long, hard look at the State of the Union during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election in this documentary, a follow-up to 1993's The Last Party, in which actor Robert Downey Jr. followed the 1992 presidential campaign. In The Last Party 2000 Read More

Rascals Presents: Comedy Knockouts

Synopsis: Rascals Presents: Comedy Knockouts features stand-up sets from such celebrated comics as Tim Allen, Drew Carey, Sinbad, and Ray Romano. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Rascals Comedy Club Presents: Totally Rosie

Actors: Rosie O'Donnell

Synopsis: Prepare to witness a comedy superstar in the making in this release of an early performance by outspoken comedienne and future talk show host Rosie O'Donnell. Years before she took her seat across from Barbara Walters on The View, O'Donnell was just another touring comic attempting to get some Read More

Intimate Portrait: Rosie O'Donell

Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians, Vol. 5

Synopsis: Like its predecessors, this installment to the popular Laughing Out Loud series offers viewers the experience of a standup comedy club from the comfort of home. This production features a variety of comedians performing some of their funniest bits; among those included are Jerry Seinfeld, Kelsey Read More

Get Bruce!

Actors: Bruce Vilanch, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: This is a documentary portrait of a Hollywood comedy writer cited by many of entertainment's biggest stars as their comedic "secret weapon." Bruce Vilanch is a rotund, hirsute New Jersey native who left a job at a Chicago newspaper in the 1970s to become a gag writer for singer and actress Bette Midler Read More

Tarzan

Actors: Brian Blessed, Glenn Close, Minnie Driver, Tony Goldwyn, Nigel Hawthorne

Synopsis: Author Edgar Rice Burroughs once suggested that animation would be the ideal medium to bring his Tarzan to the screen, and 81 years after the first film about the famous ape-man, Disney brings us the first full-length animated film starring the King of the Jungle. After a disaster at sea causes Read More

Ally McBeal: Let's Dance

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi

Wide Awake

Actors: Joseph Cross, Dana Delany, Denis Leary, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: In this film by writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, a young boy learns lessons about life and God during a trying year of discovery in fifth grade at a Catholic boys' school. As the school year opens, Joshua Beal (Joseph Cross) is despondent over the recent death of his grandfather (Robert Read More

Murphy Brown: A Man and a Woman

Synopsis: In order to prove a point about sexual double standards, Kay (Lily Tomlin) disguises herself as a man named Rick. Later, it is "Rick" who rescues Murphy from the lecherous advances of an IRS accountant (Frederic Forrest). Unfortunately, Murphy didn't entirely want to be rescued; she was hoping Read More

Rosie O'Donnell's Kids Are Punny

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Rosie O'Donnell

Synopsis: Important issues that may affect a child's life are portrayed in a lighthearted but sincere manner in this HBO special based on Rosie O'Donnell's book by the same name. O'Donnell shows how laughter and a sense of humor are a vital part of dealing with things that might be beyond one's immediate Read More

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

Actors: Jon Stewart, Shawn Colvin, En Vogue, Gloria Estefan, The Fugees, Jimmy Buffett

Synopsis: It's musical fun with the Sesame Street Muppets as they're joined by some of their friends for this collection of favorite songs from the long-running children's series. Guests include Jimmy Buffett, Gloria Estefan, The Fugees, En Vogue, Rosie O'Donnell and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. ~ Mark Read More

Say It, Fight It, Cure It

Actors: Rosie O'Donnell

Synopsis: Directed by actress Lee Grant, this powerful 90-minute documentary focuses on various breast-cancer survivors in the United States. Among the people represented herein are a mother and two daughters, all suffering from cancer. But the film's most poignant moment belongs to host-narrator Rosie Read More

The View [TV Series]

Sesame Street: Get Up and Dance

Actors: Garth Brooks, Rosie O'Donnell, Maya Angelou

Synopsis: If you're looking for a gentle video to entertain your preschooler quietly, this is NOT it! Sesame Street: Get Up and Dance is an all-star musical dance-a-bration! Kids will need lots of space to dance the "I'm a Little Airplane," "Birdland Jump," "Do the Dog," "Do the Jelly," "Cat Had a Read More

The Twilight of the Golds

Actors: Jennifer Beals, Jon Tenney, Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: Co-written by Jonathan Tolins and based on his original stage play, this Showtime drama concerns the possible role of genetics in determining sexual orientation. Suzanne Gold (Jennifer Beals), a medical-school dropout who manages a clothing store, marries genetic researcher Rob Stein (Jon Tenney) Read More

Harriet the Spy

Actors: Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Vanessa Lee Chester, Gregory Smith, J. Smith-Cameron

Synopsis: The first feature film from the Nickelodeon cable channel, Harriet the Spy is an updated version of Louise Fitzhugh's best-selling 1964 children's novel. Sixth grade outcast Harriet (Michelle Trachtenberg) is an only child who has mostly been raised by her nanny, Golly (Rosie O'Donnell), rather Read More

A Very Brady Sequel

Actors: Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Tim Matheson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Christine Taylor

Synopsis: Like its lively predecessor, The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), this mild comic send-up takes its characters and situations from the popular family sitcom of the 1970s, The Brady Bunch. Set in the '90s, it is filled with in-joke references to American pop culture. However, one need not be familiar with Read More

Saturday Night Live: Rosie O'Donnell [2]

Actors: Rosie O'Donnell, Whitney Houston

Synopsis: This 1996 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Rosie O'Donnell and features musical guest Whitney Houston. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Beautiful Girls

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, Noah Emmerich, Annabeth Gish, Michael Rapaport, Lauren Holly, Mira Sorvino, Uma Thurman

Synopsis: A high-school reunion in a snowy New England town brings together a diverse band of former classmates. They include NYC pianist Willie Timothy Hutton who has found only small success playing night clubs and is considering taking a job as a supply salesman. While in town, Willie, who is having Read More

Now and Then

Actors: Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, Gaby Hoffmann, Ashleigh Aston Moore, Demi Moore

Synopsis: Four women look back at the girls they used to be in this warm comedy-drama. Author Samantha Albertson (Demi Moore), actress Tina Tercell (Melanie Griffith), gynecologist Roberta Martin (Rosie O'Donnell), and housewife Christina DeWitt (Rita Wilson) are friends from childhood who get together for Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Eight

Synopsis: The Larry Sanders Show is celebrating its eighth anniversary, and guests k.d. lang, Pat O'Brien, Rosie O'Donnell, Mandy Patinkin, and Noah Wyle are booked for the big show. It seems that Murphy's Law is in full effect for the anniversary show, however, and in addition to O'Donnell's limo failing Read More

Exit to Eden

Actors: Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Rosie O'Donnell, Dan Aykroyd, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: This sexy farce stars Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell as Fred Lavery and Sheila Kingston, a pair of cynical detectives investigating the disappearance of a key witness in a diamond-smuggling case. The case leads them to a Club Med-styled S&M resort where dog collars and cat o' nine tails abound; Read More

The Flintstones

Actors: John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: The good (if not fully evolved) citizens of Bedrock make their way to the big screen in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series of the 1960s. Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) and his best friend Barney Rubble (Rick Moranis) work together at the Slate and Company Rock Quarry. When Read More

Car 54, Where are You?

Actors: David Johansen, John C. McGinley, Fran Drescher, Nipsey Russell, Rosie O'Donnell

Synopsis: In this campy, nostalgic comedy based on a popular TV series from the early '60s, the two bungling cops Toody and Muldoon are assigned to guard a key witness who is planning to testify against a crime lord. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I'll Do Anything

Actors: Nick Nolte, Whittni Wright, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Joely Richardson, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: James L. Brooks' showbiz comedy I'll Do Anything is "The Musical That Almost Was" (after test screenings Brooks removed all the musical numbers in the film, turning the film into a songless romantic comedy). Matt Hobbs (Nick Nolte) is a hardly working actor who finds himself raising his 6-year-old Read More

Another Stakeout

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell, Dennis Farina, Marcia Strassman

Synopsis: In Stakeout, cop Richard Dreyfuss fell in love with Madeline Stowe, the woman he and his partner Emilio Estevez were watching during a police stakeout. Stowe's back in Another Stakeout, but her part is fleeting and unbilled. On the other hand, we get plenty of Dreyfuss and Estevez, still both as Read More

Sleepless in Seattle

Actors: Dana Ivey, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Rosie O'Donnell, Victor Garber, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Sleepless in Seattle, the sophomore directorial effort from Nora Ephron, is a light romantic comedy inspired by the 1957 film An Affair to Remember. Tom Hanks stars as widower and single father Sam. When Sam's son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), calls into a talk radio program looking for a new mother Read More

Saturday Night Live: Rosie O'Donnell [1]

Actors: Rosie O'Donnell, James Taylor

Synopsis: This 1993 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Rosie O'Donnell and features musical guest James Taylor. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Fatal Instinct

Actors: Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Fatal Instinct is an Airplane-style spoof of the late-'80s, early-'90s cycle of erotic crime thrillers. Setting the plot in motion is a kinky murder. Armand Assante plays the cop assigned to the case; he's also the prosecuting attorney; the "Sharon Stone" part is essayed by Sean Young. A dash of Body Heat Read More

A League of Their Own

Actors: Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Madonna, Jon Lovitz, Rosie O'Donnell, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asia fighting World War II. The league flourished until after World War II, when, with the men's return, the league was consigned to oblivion. Director Penny Marshall Read More

Best of the Improv, Vol. 6

Actors: Franklyn Ajaye, Drew Carey, Jack Coen, Jeff Foxworthy, Stephanie Hodge

Synopsis: Los Angeles, California's The Improv is one of the most well-known comedy clubs in the United States, establishing itself over the years as the proving-ground for up-and-coming left-coast comics. This sixth entry in Koch Records' Best of the Improv series includes several comedy superstars Read More