Phyllis Somerville

Phyllis Somerville
Somerville at the 2007 premiere of Lucky You
Occupation	Stage, film, television actress

Phyllis Somerville (born 1944) is an American stage, screen, and television actress. Her most prominent role to date was in 2006 as the mother of the sexual predator played by Jackie Earle Haley in Todd Field's Little Children.

Somerville made her Broadway debut in the musical Over Here!, which starred Janie Sell, and the then-surviving Andrews Sisters (Maxene and Patty). Somerville has a long history of appearing both on and off-Broadway and outside New York; most recently in 2003 as "Emily Dickinson/Vera" in The Psychic Life of Savages, a play by Amy Freed (Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, Connecticut).

Filmography

• Fringe (TV series) episode 3.14, "6B") 2011
• The Big C (2010-)
• Forgetting the Girl (2010)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• The Mighty Macs (2010)
• Capers (2008)
• Life on Mars (U.S. TV series) (2008)
• Lucky You (2007)
• Broken English (2007)
• Little Children (2006)
• Just Like the Son (2006)
• If I Didn't Care (2006)
• As the World Turns (1956)
• Messengers (2004)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Chappelle's Show
• Swimfan (2002)
• Anatomy of a Breakup (2002)
• Revolution #9 (2001)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• The Sleepy Time Gal (2001)
• Third Watch

• The Sopranos
• Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
• Curtain Call (1999)
• Simply Irresistible (1999)
• The Guiding Light (1998)
• Better Living (1998)
• Homicide: Life on the Street
• Above Freezing (1998)
• Sex and the City (1998)
• The Impostors (1998)
• Montana (1998)
• One Life to Live (1997–1998)
• Trouble on the Corner (1997)
• NYPD Blue (1995–1996)
• New York News (199?)
• Leap of Faith (1992)
• Law & Order (1990–1991)
• Arthur (1981)

External links

• Phyllis Somerville at the Internet Movie Database