Marceline Hugot

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{{Short description|American actress}}

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| birth_name = Marceline A. Hugot

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| birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1988–present

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Marceline Hugot (born February 10, 1960) is an American stage and screen actress. Best known for playing Kathy Geiss on NBC sitcom 30 Rock, she has also appeared in the films Working Girl, Julie & Julia, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and United 93 and the television shows Sex and the City, Ed, Onion News Network, The Leftovers, and Godless.

Life and career

Marceline A. Hugot was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and had dual citizenship in both the US and France. Her father, François Hugot, was a professor of French studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.{{cite web |url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2015-03-10/seen-not-heard |title=Seen, Not Heard |last=Bunch |first=Will |date=March 10, 2015 |website=www.brownalumnimagazine.com |publisher=Brown |access-date=April 18, 2020 |quote=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210915092219/https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2015-03-10/seen-not-heard |archive-date=September 15, 2021}} She began acting on College Hill, Providence, Rhode Island, as a freshman in college. While studying in San Diego for a master's degree in theatre, Hugot landed roles in films such as Working Girl and Woody Allen's Alice before moving to television with Ellen, ER, Law & Order, and Spin City.

In the 2008 PBS film Jump at the Sun, directed by Sam Pollard, Hugot played 1940s radio personality Mary Margaret McBride opposite Kim Brockington's character Zora Neale Hurston. More recently, she starred as Shirley Hartland on AMC's Better Call Saul, Gretel on Fox's Gotham, and in the 2020 American black comedy thriller film Blow the Man Down alongside Annette O'Toole, June Squibb, and Margo Martindale.

On stage, Hugot performed in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Victor Jory Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky.[http://www.abouttheartists.com/productions/116405-a-moon-for-the-misbegotten-at-actors-theatre-of-louisville-victor-jory-theatre-1987 About the Artists. A Moon for the Misbegotten. Actors Theatre of Louisville.] She also performed in Jackie Sibblies Drury's Marys Seacole at Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3 and as Aunt Dorothy in Craig Lucas's play Prelude to a Kiss in 2007 on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre.[https://www.playbill.com/article/what-did-critics-think-of-jackie-sibblies-drurys-marys-seacole-off-broadway PLAYBILL. What Did Critics Think of Jackie Sibblies Drury's "Marys Seacole"? Ruthie Fierberg. Feb 26, 2019.]{{cite web |url=https://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/reviews/marys-seacole-and-black-female-caretakers_87924.html |title=Marys Seacole and the Black Female Caretakers Who Make the World Go Round |last=Stewart |first=Zachary |date=February 25, 2019 |website=www.theatermania.com |publisher=|access-date=April 18, 2020 |quote=}} Hugot is considered a character actress. "I'm the queen of cameos," says Hugot.[https://2paragraphs.com/2019/01/gotham-who-is-gretel-in-pena-dura-episode/ ‘Gotham’: Who Is Gretel In “Pena Dura” Episode? Marceline Hugot. 2paragraphs.com.]

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

1988

|Working Girl

| Bitsy

1989

| Longtime Companion

|Soap Opera Reader

1990

|Alice

| Monica

1991

| Bed & Breakfast

|Eloise

1995

|To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

| Katina

1996

|Dunston Checks In

| Mrs. Harrison

1997

|Office Killer

| Young Carlotta

1997

|Hudson River Blues

| Helen

1998

| Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five

|Homeless Woman

1999

|The Autumn Heart

| Donna

2002

|Personal Velocity

| Pam

2003

|Uptown Girls

| Nurse

2006

| The Night Listener

|Nurse

2006

|Stephanie Daley

| Mrs. Werner

2006

|United 93

| Georgine Rose Corrigan

2006

| The Treatment

|Upstate Nurse

2006

|Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

| Tippa Henry

2006

|The Hoax

| Talia Merton

2006

|Beautiful Ohio

| Math Teacher

2007

|Never Forever

| Dr. Hanson

2007

| The Favor

|History Teacher

2008

| Be Kind Rewind

|City Hall Employee

2008

|The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

| Parsons

2009

| (Untitled)

|Corporate Art Buyer

2009

|The Messenger

| Mrs. Flanigan

2009

|The Winning Season

| Dr. Parsons

2009

| Motherhood

|Curious Tourist

2009

|Confessions of a Shopaholic

| Saleswoman

2009

|Julie & Julia

| Madame Bernheim

2011

| Win Win

|Woman #2 Jogging

2011

|Our Idiot Brother

| Judy

2011

| The Oranges

|Christmas Caroler

2011

|I Don't Know How She Does It

| Beth

2012

|Price Check

| Mrs. Raphael

2012

| The Dictator

|Woman in Helicopter

2012

| Girl Most Likely

|Librarian

2012

|Backwards

| Mrs. Atkinson

2012

|The Discoverers

| Assistant Dean

2013

|The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

| Piñata Woman

2013

|The Happy House

| Hildie

2013

|Labor Day

| Mrs. Farnsworth

2013

|Cold Comes the Night

| Denise

2014

|The Last Five Years

| Mrs. Whitfield

2015

| Slow Learners

|Joyce Lowry

2016

|Indignation

| Dorm Matron

2016

| Certain Women

|Teacher 3

2016

| Custody

|ACS Rep

2017

| Freak Show

|Mrs. Monusky

2017

| The Meyerowitz Stories

|Lady at Gallery Opening

2018

| Tully

|Nosy Customer

2018

| A Vigilante

|Counseling Group Woman #2

2018

|Wanderland

| Donny's Mom

2018

|To Dust

| Carol

2019

| The Sunlit Night

|Mrs. Glenny

2019

|Blow the Man Down

| Doreen Burke

2019

| A Call to Spy

|Sister Francis

2020

| I'm Your Woman

|Evelyn

2022

| Mr. Harrigan's Phone

|Old Woman

2022

|She Said

| Linda Fairstein

2024

| Which Brings Me to You

|Olivia

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable"| Notes

1995

|Ellen

| The Nurse

|"The Therapy Episode"

1995

|ER

| Bonnie Curtis

|"Everything Old Is New Again"

1998

|Law & Order

| Dr. Sandi Ruskin

|"Grief"

1998

| Remember WENN

|Nurse Naomi Brumpton

|"And If I Die Before I Sleep"

1999

|Spin City

| Doggie Day Care

|"How to Bury a Millionaire"

2000

| Now and Again

|Nurse

|"The Bugmeister"

2000

| Cupid & Cate

|Tourist Woman

|TV movie

2000

|Sex and the City

| Mary

|"Where There's Smoke..."

2001

|Law & Order: Criminal Intent

| Gloria

|"Art"

2002–2003

|Ed

| Mrs. Vanacore

| 2 episodes

2004, 2011

|Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

| Leslie Price / Sister

| 2 episodes

2006

|Law & Order: Trial by Jury

| Justine Ashford

|"Eros in the Upper Eighties"

2007–2013

|30 Rock

| Kathy Geiss

| 12 episodes

2008

|American Masters

| Mary Margaret McBride

|"Jump at the Sun"

2011

|Blue Bloods

| Mrs. Carmichael

|"Age of Innocence"

2011

| Mildred Pierce

|Table Two Woman

|2 episodes

2011

|Boardwalk Empire

| Sister Bernice

| "21"

2011

|Onion News Network

| Mayor Sue Hallinan

| 5 episodes

2013

|The Big C

| Ina

| "The Finale"

2013

| Zero Hour

|Nurse

|"Suspension"; uncredited

2014–2023

|The Blacklist

| Mother

| 2 episodes

2015

|Nurse Jackie

| Pawnbroker

| "Deal"

2015

| Power

|Bar Judge

|"Ghost Is Dead"

2015

|Flesh and Bone

| Matilda

| "Scorched Earth"

2014–2015

|The Leftovers

| Gladys

| 7 episodes

2016

|The Good Wife

| Edna

| "Iowa"

2016

|The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

| Betty Childs

| "Joe Nocera"

2016

|The Americans

| Theresa Rawlings

| "Dinner for Seven"

2016

|Falling Water

| Beverley

| "Three Half Blind Mice"

2017

|Chicago P.D.

| Geraldine Crane

| "Remember the Devil"

2017

|The Detour

| Judith

| 3 episodes

2017

|Godless

| Lucy Cole

| 3 episodes

2018

|Madam Secretary

| Evelyn Schultz

| "My Funny Valentine"

2018

|The Sinner

| Sister Joanna

| "Part VII"

2018

|Better Call Saul

| Shirley Martland

| "Wiedersehen"

2019

|Gotham

| Gretel

| "Legend of the Dark Knight: Pena Dura"

2019, 2023

|What We Do in the Shadows

| Barbara Lazarro

| 2 episodes

2020

|New Amsterdam

| Annie Singer

| "14 Years, 2 Months, 8 Days"

2020

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| Anita Knarlson

| 2 episodes

2020

| Love Life

|Sharon Field

|"Bradley Field"

2021

| Dr. Death

| Rose Keller

| 3 episodes

2021

| Evil

|Head Nun

|"U Is for U.F.O."

2021

| Chicago Fire

|Sister Montclair

|2 episodes

2021

| Dickinson

|Patient

|"A little Madness in the Spring"

2021

| FBI: Most Wanted

|Blanche

|"Run-Hide-Fight"

2022

| The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

| Molly

| 3 episodes

2023

| Black Mirror

| Bookshop Clerk

| "Beyond the Sea"

=Stage=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable"| Theater

Jan 7 – 24, 1987

|A Moon for the Misbegotten

| Josie Hogan

|Victor Jory Theatre

Nov 4 – 22, 1987

|Coriolanus

| Valeria

|McCarter Theatre

Feb 3 – May 7, 1989

|Measure for Measure

| Francisca

|Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

Nov 1, 1992 – Jan 31, 1993

|Them...Within Us

| Sarah

|Theatre Row

Nov 3, 1998 – Jan 2, 1999

|Twelfth Night

| Maria

|The Lansburgh Theatre

Apr 17 – Jun 5, 1999

|The Cider House Rules, Part One: Here in St. Cloud's

| Nurse Edna/Prostitute

|Atlantic Theater Company Linda Gross Theater

Feb 17 – Apr 29, 2007

|Prelude to a Kiss

| Leah/Aunt Dorothy

|American Airlines Theatre

Feb 9 – Mar 24, 2019

|Marys Seacole

| Merry

|The Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center

References

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