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Elizabeth Perkins (born November 18, 1960) is a well-known American movie, television and theater actress. She was born in Queens, New York, and was raised in Vermont. After finishing high school she spent three years in Chicago taking acting lessons at the famous Goodman School of Drama. Back in New York in 1984, she did her first theater performance. Thereafter she worked in several ensembles and has since then considered theater playing as a priority of her career.
As a movie actress she had her breakthrough starring with
Tom Hanks in
Big. She then received critical acclaim for her performance in Barry Levinson's
Avalon. Of all the films she has acted in, her biggest success so far has been however The Flintstones, starring also
John Goodman, in which she plays the long-suffering Wilma Flinstone.
In 1993 Perkins made her television debut in
For Their Own Good. She starred thereafter in the comedy series Battery Park and If These Walls Could Talk, and has since then played roles in television films on a regular basis.
Perkins' first husband was Terry Kinney, from whom she divorced. In 2000 she married her present husband, Julio Macat.
Perkins recently filmed the pilot episode of a new Showtime series entitled Weeds. The series is about a suburban mother (played by
Mary-Louise Parker) who, upon the death of her husband, resorts to dealing marijuana to make money, while also attempting to maintain her reputation in the community. Perkins will play an upstanding member of the community whose son falls in love with Parker's daughter.
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