Martha Campbell Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American singer, stage and screen actress, best known for playing the lead role of Virginia Chance on the television sitcom "Raising Hope", and for guest starring as Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife".

KNOWN FOR

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2012
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1985
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2002
Grey's Anatomy
2009
Family Guy
2023
The Blacklist
2018
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2006
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2014
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2025
The Good Wife
2009
East of Eden
2026
Fringe
2010

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
95
Producing
1
Crew
1
2026
East of Eden
as Faye
2025
Sovereign
as Lesley Anne
2025
This Ordinary Thing
as Self (voice)
2025
Prime Target
as Jane Torres
2025
Task
as Kathleen McGinty
2025
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2024
Sardinia
as Judith
2023
Family Guy
as Stephanie (voice)
2023
A Town Called Malice
as Mint Ma Lord
2022
The Man Who Fell to Earth
as Intake Officer K. Faraday
2022
Sprung
as Barb
2021
Mass
as Gail
2021
Genera+ion
as Megan
2020
Pitch Black Panacea
as Amy (voice)
2020
Flack
as Clara
2020
Reunited Apart
as Self
2019
Frozen II
as Yelena (voice)
2019
Brockmire
as Shirley
2019
Baroness von Sketch Show
as Margo
2018
Honey Bee
as Louise
2018
Minecraft: Story Mode
as Olivia (voice)
2018
The Shivering Truth
as (voice)
2018
The Guest Book
as Shelley
2018
The Blacklist
as Dr. Sharon Fulton
2017
Hello Again
as Ruth
2017
To Tell the Truth
as Self - Panelist
2016
The Real O'Neals
as Eileen O'Neal
2015
Younger
as Cheryl Sussman
2014
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2012
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2012
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2011
Company
as Sarah
2011
Adventures in Plymptoons!
as Self
2010
Small Town Murder Songs
as Sam
2010
Remember Me
as Alyssa Craig's Mom (uncredited)
2010
How to Make It in America
2010
Raising Hope
as Virginia Chance
2010
Fringe
as Sheriff Ann Mathis
2009
Medium
as Rosemary Widdick
2009
Grey's Anatomy
as Pam Michaelson
2009
The Good Wife
as Patti Nyholm
2008
Marvelous
as Gwen
2007
Dante's Inferno
as Celia / Lobbyist Singer / Lizzie Borden (voice)
2006
Surface
as Mr. Big
2006
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Jo Gage
2004
Hair High
as Miss Crumbles (voice)
2004
7th Heaven
as Venus
2004
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
2003
Karen Sisco
2003
Hack
as Louise O'Connor
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
2002
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Claire Rinato
2001
The Sleepy Time Gal
as Rebecca
2001
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1999
200 Cigarettes
as Monica
1999
ER
as Meg Corwin
1998
Pecker
as Tina
1998
Music from Another Room
as Karen Swan
1998
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
as Mary Jane Preston
1998
Independent's Day
as Self
1998
The Defenders: Taking the First
as MJ Preston
1997
Eye of God
as Ainsley DuPree
1997
Colin Fitz
as Ann
1997
The Defenders: Payback
as M.J. Preston
1997
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as Self
1996
I Shot Andy Warhol
as Stevie
1996
Beautiful Girls
as Jan
1996
I'm Not Rappaport
as Laurie Campbell
1996
American Playhouse
as Earlene Pomerleau
1995
Last Summer in the Hamptons
as Chloe Garfield
1994
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
as Jane Grant
1994
My Life's in Turnaround
as Herself
1994
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
as Earlene Pomerleau
1993
Daybreak
as Laurie
1993
Josh & S.A.M.
as Alison (The Liberty Maid)
1993
Chantilly Lace
as Ann
1993
The Perfect Woman
1992
Samantha
as Samantha
1992
Inside Monkey Zetterland
as Sofie
1992
A Blink of Paradise
as Mother
1991
A Woman at War
as Helene Moszkiewiez
1990
Stanley & Iris
as Kelly King
1989
Parenthood
as Julie Buckman-Lampkin Higgins
1989
Silence Like Glass
as Claudia Jacoby
1988
Another Woman
as Laura
1988
Running on Empty
as Lorna Phillips
1988
Stars & Bars
as Bryant
1987
Shy People
as Grace
1986
The Mosquito Coast
as Emily Spellgood
1985
The Goonies
as Stef
1985
Family Ties
as Jessie Blake
1985
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1984
The River Rat
as Jonsy
1981
Rollover
as Fewster's Older Daughter
The Custom of the Country