Holland Taylor

Holland Virginia Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress who won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC's *The Practice* (1998–2003). She received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy *Two and a Half Men* (2003–15).

Taylor's other notable television roles include starring parts on the sitcoms *Bosom Buddies* (1980–82), *The Powers That Be* (1992–93), and *The Naked Truth* (1995–98). She also appeared as Jill Ollinger on the soap opera *All My Children* (1981–83), as Peggy Peabody on *The L Word* (2004–08), and as Ida Silver on *Mr. Mercedes* (2017–19). In 2020, she received critical praise and her eighth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role as Ellen Kincaid in the Netflix miniseries *Hollywood*.

Her feature film credits include *Romancing the Stone* (1984) and its sequel (1985), *Alice* (1990), *To Die For* (1995), *One Fine Day* (1996), *George of the Jungle* (1997), *The Truman Show* (1998), *Happy Accidents* (2000), *Keeping the Faith* (2000), *Legally Blonde* (2001), *The Wedding Date* (2005), *Baby Mama* (2008), *Gloria Bell* (2018), *Bill & Ted Face the Music* (2020), and *The Stand In* (2020).

Taylor also wrote and starred in the one-woman play *Ann*, based on the life and work of Ann Richards, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress.