Jessica Walter stars as the faded 1970s TV star Tabitha Wilson on The CW's "
90210."
Jessica Walter
's award-winning performances highlight her already impressive resume of film and television work.
Jessica Walter
and the entire cast of the critically-acclaimed "Arrested Development" were nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, by the 2006 SAG Awards.
Jessica Walter
played Lucille, the role which earned her a 2005 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, as well as landing her atop Entertainment Weekly's 2005 "Must" list. The show received the 2005 Emmy's Outstanding Comedy Series nomination, its second after winning in 2004, as well as nominations from the Golden Globes and SAG.
Emmy Awards are nothing new to
Jessica Walter
; she won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress for her work on the series "Amy Prentiss."
Jessica Walter
also earned Emmy nominations for her role on "Trapper John, M.D.," and a guest star role on "The Streets of San Francisco."
Jessica Walter
's additional television credits include more than one hundred roles on shows such as "Mission: Impossible," "The Immortal," "All That Glitters," "Three's a Crowd," "Murder, She Wrote," "Coach," "Law & Order," "Touched By an Angel," "Just Shoot Me" and "Jack & Jill."
Jessica Walter
was the voice of the mother dinosaur on the series "Dinosaurs," and was also a regular on "The Round Table," "Oh Baby" and "Aaron's Way."
Jessica Walter
starred in the miniseries "Arthur Hailey's Wheels," as well as in several television movies, including "Women in Chains," "Home for the Holidays," "She's Dressed to Kill," "Scruples" and "Thursday's Child."
Jessica Walter
was seen recently in Lifetime's "I Do (But I Don't).
Jessica Walter
's feature films include Clint Eastwood's directorial debut "Play Misty for Me," which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
Jessica Walter
's first big screen appearance was in "Lilith," opposite Warren Beatty. Additional film credits include roles in Sidney Lumet's "The Group," "Grand Prix," "Bye Bye Braverman," "Number One," "Spring Fever," "Going Ape," "The Flamingo Kid," "Tapeheads," "Ghost in the Machine," "PCU," "The Temptress," "The Slums of Beverly Hills," "Grownups" and most recently as Adrien Brody's mother in "Dummy."
A graduate of New York's High School of the Performing Arts and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre,
Jessica Walter
has extensive theater credits that include productions both on- and off-Broadway. On Broadway,
Jessica Walter
has appeared in Peter Ustinov's "Photo Finish," which earned her the Clarence Derwent Award as Most Promising Newcomer, "A Severed Head," "Advise and Consent,' "Night Life," and Neil Simon's "Rumors."
Jessica Walter
's off-Broadway credits include roles at Playwrights Horizons and in "Tartuffe" at the Los Angeles Theater Center, as well as regional theater appearances at New Haven's Longwharf Theater, Berkshire Theater Festival, and Bucks County Playhouse, among others.
Jessica Walter
lives in New York with her husband, actor Ron Leibman.
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