Holland Virginia Taylor is an American actress of film, stage, and television, and playwright. Her notable television roles include Ruth Dunbar in Bosom Buddies, senator's wife Margaret Powers on Norman Lear's The Powers That Be, Judge Roberta Kittleson on The Practice and E...
Westtown School in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Bennington College in Vermont, University of Santa Monica
Nationality
United States of America
Parents
Virginia Taylor, C. Tracy Taylor
Siblings
Pamela Taylor, Patricia Taylor
Partner
Sarah Paulson (2015–present)
Nicknames
Penny Taylor , Holland Virginia Taylor
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Nominations
Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play (2013)
Movies
"The Edge of Night", "Bosom Buddies" (1982), "George of the Jungle", "My Last Love", "The Truman Show" (1998), "The Practice" (1998), "Two and a Half Men" (2003-2015), "Intent", "D.E.B.S.", "The Wedding Date"
TV Shows
"Butley", "The Cocktail Hour", "Ally McBeal", "Moose Murders", "Breakfast with Less and Bess","The L World", "Monk" and "Electric City"
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Trademark
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Often plays classy or ritzy characters
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Quote
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"There's a very big age difference between us which I'm sure shocks a lot of people, and it startles me. But as they say, 'If she dies, she dies.'" [Taylor in a November 2015 radio interview with WNYC, joking about her relationship with Sarah Paulson--who is 32 years her junior]
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"I'm just cutting a swath of bitchiness through the world!." (on her propensity for playing cantankerous women)
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Fact
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She was awarded the 1990 Drama-Logue Award for Performance for "The Cocktail Hour" in the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the James A. Doolittle Theatre (University of California) in Los Angeles, California.
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Despite having had no children of her own in real life, onscreen she has played the mother of Jim Carrey, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tina Fey, Nicole Kidman, Leslie Mann, Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Debra Messing, Kevin Bacon, Carla Gugino and Hope Davis.
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Is in a relationship with Sarah Paulson since early 2015.
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She is of English, and some German, Dutch, Welsh, and French, ancestry.
Appearing with Buck Henry in off-Broadway play, "Mother". [July 2009]
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Wrote and starred in her own one-woman show about the late Texas Governor Ann Richards, "Ann" and performed it on Broadway in 2013.
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August 2005 - Received her Master degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica.
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She has at least five nieces and nephews and a great niece or nephew. Among her friends are playwright A.R. Gurney, and former co-star Téa Leoni.
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Aunt of Brad Anderson, who is the son of her sister Pamela.
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Has never married or had children. Youngest of 3 daughters born to Virginia (Davis) and C. Tracy Taylor. Sisters are Patricia and Pamela. Attended Bennington College in Vermont. She has English, German, and smaller amounts of Welsh, Dutch, and French, ancestry.
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Has studied Jazz and Tap dancing and also ballet at the Joffrey (beginning level as of 1978). She has said she is a "once and always student" of acting coach Stella Adler.
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Loves France and has taken French classes to learn the language. She has also taken lessons in classical French cooking.
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