She is known for often playing characters who are conservatives, religious zealots or sticklers for rules. Grant lives with her family in Los Angeles.Beth Grant (born September 18, 1949) is an American actress. Grant is married to actor Michael Chieffo and has one daughter, actress Mary Chieffo. Inspired by Mindy Kaling, Grant is also in the process of writing a Broadway musical, set in 1969 Greenwich Village. Grant guest-starred as Gillian, Brady Kelly's mother, in the third season of the sitcom Husbands.
Grant played the same character, Marianne Marie Beetle, in the short-lived show Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, both created by Bryan Fuller, and portrays the similarly named "Marie" in Mockingbird Lane, Fuller's re-imagining of The Munsters.
BETH GRANT WONDERFALLS SERIES
Grant has appeared in many TV shows, including Coach Everwood Delta The Golden Girls Malcolm in the Middle The X-Files Friends CSI Six Feet Under Wonderfalls Pushing Daisies My Name Is Earl Yes, Dear King of the Hill The Office Angel Judging Amy Jericho Sordid Lives: The Series Criminal Minds, Sabrina The Teenage Witch True Blood How I Met Your Mother Modern Family The Mentalist and The Mindy Project. Grant has appeared in dozens of films, including three Oscar Best Picture winners: Rain Man Speed To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Love Field Donnie Darko A Time to Kill Little Miss Sunshine Child's Play 2 Daltry Calhoun City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold Don't Tell Her It's Me Matchstick Men Factory Girl The Wizard Sordid Lives The Rookie All About Steve No Country for Old Men, Extract, Crazy Heart, Rango, Hollywood to Dollywood (as herself), and Dance with Me. She graduated from East Carolina University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting and Directing in 1973 and then travelled to New York to pursue a career in acting. Grant credits her mother for providing the inspiration to become an actress. Her mother worked as a manager for the North Carolina Employment Security Commission and was an activist for the Equal Rights Amendment. Her father was a poultry specialist and salesman.
She grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina and graduated from New Hanover High School in Wilmington in 1967. Grant was born on September 18, 1949, in Gadsden, Alabama. She later portrayed the recurring role of "The Woman with Hair but No Beard" in Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events and the Cat Lady in Hulu's Dollface. She starred in the films Flatliners, Sordid Lives, Dear Lemon Lima, Bad Words, Jackie (as Lady Bird Johnson), Faults (2014) and Lucky (2017). In film, she is best known for her roles as Mother at Farm House in Rain Man (1988), Miss Kettlewell in Child's Play 2 (1990), Helen in Speed (1994), Loretta in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), Kitty Farmer in Donnie Darko (2001), Pageant Official Jenkins in Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Carla Jean's Mother in No Country for Old Men (2007), and Peppy's maid in The Artist (2011). She has also appeared on Pushing Daisies, and Mockingbird Lane. She is also known for her role as Gracie Leigh in the CBS post-apocalyptic drama Jericho and as Marianne Marie Beetle, a character in Wonderfalls. Between 20, she was a series regular on the television comedy The Mindy Project portraying the role of Beverly Janoszewski. Beth Grant (born September 18, 1949) is an American character actress.
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