Jennifer Rhodes

Jennifer Rhodes
Rhodes in 2006
Born
Janice Wilson

(1947-08-17) August 17, 1947 (age 77)
Rosiclare, Illinois, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1971–present
SpouseJordan Rhodes (divorced)

Jennifer Rhodes (born Janice Wilson,[1] August 17, 1947) is an American actress.[2]

Life and career

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The daughter of Bennie and Clara Wilson,[1] she was born and grew up in Rosiclare, Illinois and became interested in theater while attending Southern Illinois University and moved to New York City soon after graduating. She studied acting and began getting cast for theatre roles. After marrying Jordan Rhodes, she eventually moved to Los Angeles where she stopped acting for a while because she felt, as a stage actress, she didn't know very much about acting for television or movie roles.She eventually auditioned successfully for commercials roles, later moving on to television and film.[3]

Rhodes' first credited role was in the 1960s television series The High Chaparral as the character Tanea. In 1980, she played a press secretary on a made-for-TV movie about Jackie Kennedy.In 1988, she appeared in the New World Pictures film Heathers as Winona Ryder's mother.[3] She appeared on the following select series: Fame, Matlock, Little House on the Prairie, L.A. Law, Quantum Leap, Knots Landing, Designing Women, Full House, Red Shoe Diaries, Party of Five, ER, Wings, Murphy Brown, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Family Matters, Friends, Popular, The Agency, and Boston Public. She also appeared on the Disney Channel's The Suite Life on Deck.

Rhodes may be best known as Penny "Grams" Halliwell on The WB series Charmed,[4] where she starred as the ghost of the Charmed Ones's grandmother and the tough-as-nails matriarch of the Halliwell clan. Although not a regular she did appear frequently throughout all 8 seasons of the original series.

Her first regular series role was in Nightingales as the character Effie Gardner.[4]: 765 

Marriage

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She married Jordan Rhodes and later moved to Los Angeles from New York City with him. The marriage ended in divorce. She never remarried and has no children.

Filmography

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Film

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  • Stand Up and Be Counted (1972) - (uncredited)
  • Big Rose: Double Trouble (1974, TV Movie)
  • The Towering Inferno (1974) - Janet - Secretary (uncredited)
  • The Death of Richie (1977, TV Movie) - Elaine
  • Red Light in the White House (1977) - Carrie Russell
  • Night Creature (1978) - Georgia
  • Halloween (1978) - Psych Ward Nurse (uncredited)
  • Sketches of a Strangler (1978) - Eileen
  • Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981, TV Movie) - Press Secretary
  • I'm Going to Be Famous (1983)
  • Ghost Fever (1986) - Madame St. Esprit
  • The Eleventh Commandment (1986)
  • Body Count (1987, TV Movie)
  • Slumber Party Massacre II (1987) - Mrs. Bates
  • Heathers (1988) - Veronica's Mom
  • Nightingales (1988, TV Series) - Effie Gardner
  • Twenty Dollar Star (1990) - Renee
  • Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up (1992) - Brook's Landlady
  • Exiled in America (1992) - Sister Mary Catherine
  • The Baby Doll Murders (1993) - Mrs. Landers
  • There Was a Little Boy (1993, TV Movie) - Dr. Blum
  • Doorways (1993, TV Movie) - Mother
  • Night of the Demons 2 (1994) - Sister Gloria
  • Killing Obsession (1994) - Ella
  • Skeletons (1997, TV Movie) - Mrs. Gallway
  • The Killers Within (1997) - Hanna
  • Cold Case (1997, TV Movie) - Miranda Allison
  • Chasing Tchaikovsky (2007) - Mrs. Winnington
  • Let the Game Begin (2010) - Hope
  • Class (2010, TV Movie) - Judge
  • Dispatch (2011) - Mrs. Gordon
  • The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone (2013) - Ms. Sally
  • Lovesick (2013) - Mother

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1971 The High Chaparral Tanea Episode: "A Man to Match the Land"
1971 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors Nurse Episode: "Close Up"
1973 Barnaby Jones 2nd Woman Episode: "Sunday: Doomsday"
1973 The New Perry Mason Dina Landon Episode: "The Case of the Spurious Spouse"
1978 James at 15 Mrs. Phillips Episode: "Actions Speak Louder"
1978 Lou Grant Dr. Roberta Giani Episode: "Poison"
1979 The Rockford Files Jean Martine Episode: "Just a Coupla Guys"
1979–1982 Little House on the Prairie Mrs. Hale / Nurse 2 episodes
1980–1990 Knots Landing Attorney / Chairperson 3 episodes
1985 Fame Joyce Chapman 3 episodes
1986 Matlock Gracie Fielder Episode: "The Stripper"
1986 Mike Hammer Carlie Jameson Episode: "Dead Pigeon"
1987 Cagney & Lacey Adele Episode: "You've Come a Long Way, Baby"
1987–1988 L.A. Law D.D.A. Gylkowski 2 episodes
1987–1988 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Andrea Buxbaum 2 episodes
1988 CBS Summer Playhouse Queen Illizi Episode: "Further Adventures"
1989 Nightingales Effie Gardner 6 episodes
1989 Quantum Leap Agnes Stevens Episode: "Blind Faith"
1990–1991 Equal Justice Judge Justice Billings 4 episodes
1990 Adam 12 Mrs. Korowski Episode: "Neighbors"
1990 Doogie Howser, M.D. Dr. Butterworth Episode: "Car Wars"
1990 Gabriel's Fire Connie DiFranco Episode: "Windows"
1991 Designing Women Ms. Tauber Episode: "The Big Circle"
1991 Morton & Hayes Hunt Guest #2 Episode: "Society Saps"
1991 Reasonable Doubts Mrs. Leeds Episode: "Daddy's Little Girl"
1992 The Heights Mrs. Mazelli Episode: "What Does It Take?"
1992 Full House Liz Larson Episode: "Designing Mothers"
1995 Red Shoe Diaries Mom Episode: "Divorce, Divorce"
1995 Party of Five Carolyn Prousky Episode: "The Trouble with Charlie"
1995 The Larry Sanders Show Irene Goodman Episode: "Hank's Sex Tape"
1996 ER Mrs. Henry Episode: "It's Not Easy Being Greene"
1996 Wings Mavis Episode: "Lynch Party"
1996 Murphy Brown Mrs. Crawford Episode: "Office Politics"
1996 3rd Rock from the Sun Mrs. Sumner 4 episodes
1997 High Incident Gloria Episode: "Knock, Knock"
1997 Friends Mrs. Lynch Episode: "The One Where They're Going to Party!"
1998 Family Matters Blanche Geiss Episode: "Lost in Space: Part 1"
1998 Maggie Owner Episode: "The Maris Syndrome"
1999–2006 Charmed Penny 'Grams' Halliwell 14 episodes
1999 Ally McBeal Gladys Claven Episode: "Only the Lonely"
1999 Time of Your Life Roberta Episode: "The Time the Truth Was Told"
2001 Popular Joanie Salk Episode: "I Know What You Did Last Spring Break"
2001 The Agency Mary Orland Episode: "Closure"
2002 The District Margaret De Sica Episode: "The Killing Point"
2003 Boston Public Claire's Mother 2 episodes
2006 Gilmore Girls Beverly Episode: "Lorelai's First Cotillion"
2007 Cold Case Miranda Allison '07 Episode: "Devil Music"
2008 The Young and the Restless Leilani 3 episodes
2009 The Suite Life on Deck Mrs. McCracken Episode: "Kitchen Casanova"
2010 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Aunt Nellie Porter Episode: "Irradiator"
2012 The Mentalist Wealthy Woman Episode: "Red Rover, Red Rover"
2013 See Dad Run Rose Episode: "See Dad Swoon"
2014 Sean Saves the World Betty Episode: "The Wrath of Sean"
2015 Grey's Anatomy Jean Dominy Episode: "I Feel the Earth Move"
2016 Mary + Jane Doris Episode: "420"
2017 Famous in Love Letti Devon Episode: "Some Like It Not"
2017 Teachers Mrs. Foley Episode: "Nightmare on Fillmore Street"
2019 Grace and Frankie Cathleen Episode: "The Pharmacy"

References

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  1. ^ a b "Jennifer Rhodes On 'High Incident' Tonight". Hardin County Independent. Illinois, Elizabethtown. January 30, 1997. p. 1. Retrieved July 1, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Jennifer Rhodes profile Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine, jennifer-rhodes.com; accessed August 15, 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Ask American Profile". The Times and Democrat. South Carolina, Orangeburg. September 30, 2001. p. 38. Retrieved July 1, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
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