Jeanette Nolan

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: December 30, 1911

A veteran character actress, Jeanette Nolan capped her long career with a cameo appearance as the elderly mother of Tom Booker (played by Robert Redford) in "The Horse Whisperer" (1998), filmed in her adopted home state of Montana. The petite native of Los Angeles began her career as a teenager at the Pasadena Playhouse and by the time she was in college had begun appearing in radio dramas. Her debut was in one of the first transcontinental broadcasts, "Omar Khayyam" in 1932. Nolan went on to amass credits in such shows as &…more

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Actor

Dirty Sally
Sally Fergus
The Hustler of Muscle Beach
Rose MacIntosh
The Desperate Miles
Mrs Larkin
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Essie Cargo
Hijack!
Mrs Briscoe

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Career Milestones

1998
Final feature appearance in cameo as Robert Redford's elderly mother in "The Horse Whisperer"
1990
Last TV appearance in a guest shot on the NBC sitcom "Dear John"
1989
Returned to features in "Street Justice"
1987
Portrayed a woman accused of witchcraft by her neighbors in an episode of "Cagney and Lacey" (CBS)
1986
With McIntire, appeared in a memorable episode of "St. Elsewhere" as elderly patients