Credits

• 2025 · Dying for Sex as Gail
• 2022 · Sam & Kate as Tina
• 2022 · Night Sky as Irene York
• 2021 · Without Getting Killed or Caught as Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
• 2018 · Homecoming as Ellen Bergman
• 2018 · The Old Man & the Gun as Jewel
• 2018 · Castle Rock as Ruth Deaver
• 2018 · GQ Presents: Iconic Characters as Self
• 2016 · HyperNormalisation as Self (archive footage)
• 2016 · River of Gold as Narrator
• 2016 · Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl as Self / Loretta Lynn
• 2015 · Bloodline as Sally Rayburn
• 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
• 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
• 2013 · Making Badlands as Self
• 2012 · Deadfall as June
• 2011 · The Help as Missus Walters
• 2010 · Get Low as Mattie Darrow
• 2009 · Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People as
• 2008 · Four Christmases as Paula
• 2008 · Lake City as Maggie
• 2007 · Pictures of Hollis Woods as Josie Cahill
• 2007 · Hot Rod as Marie Powell
• 2007 · Gray Matters as Dr. Sydney
• 2006 · Big Love as Marilyn Densham
• 2005 · Nine Lives as Ruth
• 2005 · An American Haunting as Lucy Bell
• 2005 · The Ring Two as Evelyn
• 2005 · North Country as Alice Aimes
• 2004 · A Home at the End of the World as Alice Glover
• 2003 · Absence of Malick as Self
• 2003 · A Decade Under the Influence as Self
• 2002 · Tuck Everlasting as Mae Tuck
• 2002 · Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
• 2002 · Last Call as Zelda Fitzgerald
• 2001 · In the Bedroom as Ruth Fowler
• 2001 · Acting 'Carrie' as Self
• 2001 · Visualizing 'Carrie' as Self (archive footage)
• 2001 · Midwives as Sibyl Danforth
• 2000 · Songs In Ordinary Time as Marie Fermoyle
• 1999 · The Straight Story as Rose
• 1999 · The Rage: Carrie 2 as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1999 · Blast from the Past as Helen
• 1998 · Affliction as Margie Fogg
• 1997 · The View as Self
• 1996 · If These Walls Could Talk as Barbara Barrows
• 1996 · Beyond the Call as Pam O'Brien
• 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
• 1995 · Streets of Laredo as Lorena
• 1995 · The Grass Harp as Verena Talbo
• 1995 · Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain as Martha Jefferson Randolph (voice)
• 1995 · The Good Old Boys as Spring Renfro
• 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• 1994 · A Place for Annie as Susan Lansing
• 1994 · Trading Mom as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
• 1993 · Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy as Self
• 1992 · A Private Matter as Sherri Finkbine
• 1992 · Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (Voice)
• 1992 · Hard Promises as Christine Ann Coalter
• 1992 · Fonda on Fonda as Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)
• 1991 · JFK as Liz Garrison
• 1991 · The Talking Eggs as Narrator (voice)
• 1991 · Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
• 1990 · The Long Walk Home as Miriam Thompson
• 1987 · Seitenblicke as self
• 1986 · Crimes of the Heart as Babe Magrath
• 1986 · 'night, Mother as Jessie Cates
• 1986 · Violets are Blue as Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer
• 1985 · Marie: A True Story as Marie Ragghianti
• 1984 · The River as Mae Garvey
• 1983 · The Man with Two Brains as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
• 1982 · Missing as Beth Horman
• 1981 · Raggedy Man as Nita
• 1980 · Heart Beat as Carolyn Cassady
• 1980 · Coal Miner's Daughter as Loretta Lynn
• 1978 · Verna: USO Girl as Verna Vane
• 1977 · Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary as Self
• 1977 · 3 Women as Mildred "Pinky" Rose
• 1976 · Welcome to L.A. as Linda Murray
• 1976 · Carrie as Carrie
• 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
• 1975 · Katherine as Katherine Alman
• 1975 · Arena as Self
• 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
• 1974 · The Migrants as Wanda Trimpin
• 1974 · Badlands as Holly Sargis
• 1973 · Ginger in the Morning as Ginger Brown
• 1973 · The Girls of Huntington House as Sara
• 1972 · The Waltons as
• 1972 · The Rookies as
• 1972 · Prime Cut as Poppy
• 1971 · Great Performances as Verna Vane
• 1953 · The Oscars as Self
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Susan Lansing
• 2025 · Die, My Love as