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Marcia Jean Kurtz
Acting · follow into films and chains
Biography
Marcia Jean Kurtz is an American film, stage, and television actress and director. She has appeared in such films as The Panic in Needle Park, In Her Shoes, Dog Day Afternoon and Big Fan. Kurtz won an Obie Award for her performance as Doris in Donald Margulies' The Loman Family Picnic. She was also nominated for both an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for her role in Martin Sherman's When She Danced. Kurtz also directed Matty Selman's Uncle Phillip's Coat and Evan Handler's Time of Fire. She has appeared several times on the television series Law & Order.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Black Swan
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Wrestler
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Requiem for a Dream
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Panic in Needle Park
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Inside Man
As Miriam Douglas
Dog Day Afternoon
As Miriam
Tower Heist
As Rose
If Beale Street Could Talk
As Italian Grocer
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Reckless Edge - Talent as a Double-Edged Sword
Forty years after Top Gun roared into cinemas, Maverick's need for speed still feels as exhilarating as ever. But Pete Mitchell is part of a much bigger movie t...
7 films
The High Was Never the Point
When Trainspotting arrived in 1996, it was quickly labelled as the ultimate "drugs movie". Decades on, its true subject matter is far clearer. It is not fundame...
8 films
Metamorphosis: Bodies in Flux
From Kafka's insect to Cronenberg's flesh, a journey through cinema's most profound transformations, where identity itself is the shape-shifter.
7 films
The Rivalry Within: How Feuds Shape the Soul
From duelling magicians to warring chefs, explore how rivalry reveals our deepest fears and desires. A cinematic journey through competition, obsession, and the...
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
Related people
Collaborators & neighbours
Acted
If Beale Street Could Talk
2018 · Italian Grocer
Tower Heist
2011 · Rose
Black Swan
2010 · Costumer Georgina
The Wrestler
2008 · Admissions Desk Woman
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 · Hotel Receptionist
Inside Man
2006 · Miriam Douglas
Find Me Guilty
2006 · Sara Stiles
Requiem for a Dream
2000 · Rae
Center Stage
2000 · Emily's Mother
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997 · Eileen
Running on Empty
1988 · School Clerk
Dog Day Afternoon
1975 · Miriam
The Panic in Needle Park
1971 · Marcie