Martha Plimpton

Martha Plimpton

Martha Plimpton is an American stage, film, and television actress, singer, and former model. Her feature film debut was in The River Rat before rising to prominence in the Richard Donner film The Goonies.

She is best known for her role as Virginia Chance on Fox's Raising Hope, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She has also received three Tony Award nominations as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2002. She won an Emmy for the same category in 2012 as attorney Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife.

On stage, she has played the title character in Steppenwolf's Hedda Gabler. She was Tony-nominated and won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Award for her performance in Lincoln Center's The Coast of Utopia