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Beth Grant
Acting · follow into films and chains
Biography
Beth Grant (born September 18, 1949) is an American actress. She is known for often playing characters who are conservatives, religious zealots or sticklers for rules. She has appeared in dozens of films, including Rain Man, Speed; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; Love Field; Donnie Darko; A Time to Kill; Little Miss Sunshine; Child's Play 2; Daltry Calhoun; City Slickers 2; Don't Tell Her It's Me; Matchstick Men; Factory Girl; The Wizard; Sordid Lives; The Rookie; All About Steve; No Country for Old Men, Crazy Heart, and Rango. Grant has also appeared in many TV shows, including Everwood; Delta; The Golden Girls; Malcolm in the Middle; The X-Files; Friends; CSI; Six Feet Under; Wonderfalls; My Name Is Earl; Yes, Dear; King of the Hill; The Office; Angel; Judging Amy; Jericho; Sordid Lives: The Series; Criminal Minds, Sabrina The Teenage Witch; True Blood; How I Met Your Mother; and The Mentalist. Grant was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and is an alumna of East Carolina University. She is married to actor Michael Chieffo with whom she has one child. Grant played the same character, Marianne Marie Beetle, in the short-lived show Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, both created by Bryan Fuller. Description above from the Wikipedia article Beth Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Donnie Darko
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Artist
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Little Miss Sunshine
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Rookie
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Wizard
Appears in a KinoChain journey
No Country for Old Men
As Carla Jean's Mother
Remarkably Bright Creatures
As Barb Vanderhoof
Speed
As Helen
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Silent Cinema's Lost Voices
A journey through the overlooked pioneers and rediscovered treasures of the silent era, from Hollywood's golden age to the avant-garde edges of early cinema.
8 films
Game On: Cinematic Journeys Through Digital Worlds
From arcade nostalgia to virtual reality epics, these films explore the thrill and terror of living inside the game.
8 films
When Finishing Beats Winning
A chain of films where the protagonist loses the official contest but achieves a deeper, personal victory, redefining what it means to go the distance.
8 films
Pure-Hearted Heroes
Sixty years after Batman '66 taught us that heroism can be bright, sincere, and utterly without irony, this chain celebrates films whose protagonists believe, s...
7 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
Related people
Collaborators & neighbours
Acted
Remarkably Bright Creatures
2026 · Barb Vanderhoof
Willy's Wonderland
2021 · Sheriff Eloise Lund
Wander Darkly
2020 · Patty
The Artist
2011 · Peppy's Maid
Rango
2011 · Bonnie (voice)
Sedona
2011 · Deb
Crazy Heart
2009 · Jo Ann
Henry Poole Is Here
2008 · Josie
Southland Tales
2007 · Dr. Inga Von Westphalen
No Country for Old Men
2007 · Carla Jean's Mother
Little Miss Sunshine
2006 · Nancy Jenkins
The Rookie
2002 · Olline
Donnie Darko
2001 · Kitty Farmer
A Time to Kill
1996 · Cora Mae Cobb
Speed
1994 · Helen
The Dark Half
1993 · Shayla Beaumont
Flatliners
1990 · Housewife
The Image
1990 · Martha Packard
The Wizard
1989 · Diner Manager
Rain Man
1988 · Mother at Farm House