Martha Plimpton

Martha Plimpton

Martha Plimpton

Birthplace: New York City, New York
Birthday: November 16

Martha Plimpton is “Virginia Chance” on FOX’s Raising Hope. She starred as “Patti Nyholm” on CBS’s The Good Wife and “Edie Weitz” in How to Make It in America. Plimpton was nominated for a Primetime Emmy® Award for a guest spot on Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit in 2002. She is known to many as “Stef Steinbrenner” from The Goonies and recognized for her role in Family Ties. Plimpton has acted alongside Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, and Cuba Gooding Jr.

More about the show at the official Raising Hope site.

Winner
Martha Plimpton, as Patti Nyholm
The Good Wife
CBS
CBS Television Studios in association with Scott Free Productions and King Size Productions

Nominee
Martha Plimpton, as Virginia Chance
Raising Hope
FOX
Twentieth Century Fox Television

Nominee
Martha Plimpton, as Claire Rinato
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
NBC
Wolf Films in association with Universal Media Studios