Biography
Born in England, she began acting as a young girl after her family moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s. During that decade, Cartwright toiled in guest appearances and smaller roles while her younger sister Angela earned her place as a trivia question by playing Danny Thomas' daughter on "Make Room For Daddy". Veronica landed good feature roles, however, ranging from her debut in "In Love and War" (1958) to the kleptomaniac forced to lie …
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Career Milestones
2009 | Cast in the short-lived ABC series, "Eastwick," based on the John Updike novel and 1987 feature film which she also starred | |
2007 | Co-starred in the fourth remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," entitled "The Invasion" | |
2005 | Appeared in several episodes of the ABC series, "Invasion" | |
2004 | Appeared in three episodes of HBO's "Six Feet Under" | |
2004 | Played Alfred Kinsey's mother, Sara, in Bill Condon's "Kinsey" opposite Liam Neeson, who portrayed Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research | |
2003 | Played Mrs. McNerney (Pussy) in the romantic comedy "Just Married," which starred Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy | |
2001 | Cast as Megan's mother in "Scary Movie 2" | |
1999 | Played Jack's mother on an episode of NBC's "Will & Grace" | |
1998 | Had a recurring role as Cassandra Spender on "The X Files" (FOX); earned Emmy Award nominations in 1998 and 1999 | |
1997 | Appeared as the mother of a terminally ill son in two episodes of "ER" (NBC); earned Emmy Award nomination | |
1989 | Cast in a recurring role as prosecutor Margaret Flanagan on the NBC drama "L.A. Law" | |
1988 | Played a reporter in several episodes of Robert Altman's HBO series "Tanner '88" | |
1987 | Re-teamed with Jack Nicholson in "The Witches of Eastwick," playing the conservative wife of the town's newspaper editor | |
1986 | Co-starred in the Disney film, "Flight of the Navigator" | |
1985 | Portayed Ethel Kennedy in the CBS miniseries "Robert Kennedy and His Times" | |
1983 | Played the wife of astronaut Gus Grissom in "The Right Stuff" | |
1980 | Played Marcy Jones the wife of the cult leader in the CBS miniseries, "Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones" | |
1979 | Cast as Lambert, the Nostromo's navigator, in Ridley Scott's "Alien" | |
1978 | Co-starred in the remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" | |
1978 | Initial screen collaboration with Jack Nicholson, "Goin' South" | |
1974 | First feature in over a decade, "Inserts" | |
1964 | Cast as daughter Jemima Boone in the first two seasons of NBC's "Daniel Boone" | |
1964 | Appeared in last film for over a decade, "One Man's Way" | |
1963 | Played a schizophrenic child in the episode "My Name Is Judith, I'm Lost, You See" on NBC's "Eleventh Hour" | |
1963 | Appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" | |
1961 | Cast as one of the gossiping schoolgirls in "The Children's Hour" | |
1959 | Had recurring role as Violet Rutherford on "Leave It to Beaver" (ABC) | |
1958 | Made feature film debut in "In Love and War" | |
1956 | Moved to the USA at age six and soon after began appearing in TV commercials | |
| Family moved to Canada when Cartwright was three years old | ||
Awards
1999 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress In a Drama Series in The X-Files |
1998 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress In a Drama Series in The X-Files |
1997 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress In a Drama Series in ER |