Martha Plimpton

Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American actress and member of the Carradine family. Her feature-film debut was in ''Rollover'' (1981); she subsequently rose to prominence in the Richard Donner film ''The Goonies'' (1985). She has also appeared in ''The Mosquito Coast'' (1986), ''Shy People'' (1987), ''Running on Empty'' (1988), ''Parenthood'' (1989), ''Samantha'' (1991), ''Small Town Murder Songs'' (2011), ''Frozen II'' (2019), and ''Mass'' (2021).

She appeared on Broadway in ''The Coast of Utopia'' (2006–2007), ''Shining City'' (2006–2007), ''Top Girls'' (2007–2008), and ''Pal Joey'' (2008–2009). Other theatre productions in which she has performed include ''The Playboy of the Western World'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''The Glass Menagerie'', ''The Sisters Rosensweig'', and ''Uncle Vanya''. She returned to Broadway in the fall of 2014 in a revival of ''A Delicate Balance'', and starred in the ABC sitcom ''The Real O'Neals'' from March 2016 to March 2017.

She played Virginia Chance in the Fox sitcom ''Raising Hope'', which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She has also received three Tony Award nominations, as well as Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for the NBC crime drama ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' in 2002 and for the CBS legal drama ''The Good Wife'' in 2012, winning for the latter. Provided by Wikipedia