Marita Geraghty
{{short description|American actress}}
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Marita Geraghty is an American television and film actress. She had roles in several movies during the late 1980s and early 1990s, most notably as Nancy Taylor in Groundhog Day.
Geraghty was born in Chicago, Illinois.{{cite book |title=Theatre World 1990–1991 |first=John |last=Willis |year=1992 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WULNjcudiiIC&q=marita+geraghty&pg=PA179 |page=179 |publisher=Hal Leonard |isbn=1-55783-125-4 |accessdate=September 15, 2010}} She graduated from the University of Illinois and made her Broadway debut in 1987 in Coastal Disturbances.
Filmography
=Film=
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- No Mercy (1986) — Alice Collins
- Hiding Out (1987){{cite news |first=Janet |last=Maslin |title=Film: 'Hiding Out' |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 6, 1987 |page=C.21}} — Janie Rooney
- Broadcast News (1987) — Date-Rape Woman
- Fresh Horses (1988) — Maureen
- Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) — Julie
- This Is My Life (1992) — Mia Jablon
- Hero (1992) — Joan
- Groundhog Day (1993) — Nancy Taylor
- Don Juan DeMarco (1994) — Woman in Restaurant
- {{Ill|In the Flesh (1995 film)|de|3=Im Sog des Bösen|lt=In the Flesh}} (1995) — Carla Mitchelson
- Use as Directed (2008, Short) — June
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=Television=
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- Spenser: For Hire (1988) — Janet / Elizabeth Canning Anthony
- Hard Time on Planet Earth (1989) — Karen
- Law & Order (1990) — Rebecca Byrne
- Against the Law (1990) — Mariella Wilson
- To Save a Child (1991, TV Movie) — Isabella Larson
- Woops! (1992) — Suzanne Stillman
- Past Tense (1994, TV Movie) — Dawn Tripplet
- Seinfeld (1994) — Margaret
- Mad About You (1995) — Velma
- Frasier (1996) — Amanda
- Chicago Hope (1997) — Monica Blaine
- The Luck of the Irish (2001, TV Movie) — Kate O'Reilly Johnson / Kate Smith{{Cite news|first=Peggy |last=Curran |title=Awash in all things Irish: Three offerings give fresh takes on Emerald Isle and its history |newspaper=The Gazette |location=Montreal, Quebec |date=March 17, 2001 |page=D.7}}
- Judging Amy (2001) — Julie Baker
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2003) — Jane Damon
- Touched by an Angel (2003) — Deborah Jackson
- Charmed (2003) — Katrina
- Miss Match (2003) — Meaghan Smalls
- Numb3rs (2005) — Jessica Avery
- The Ex List (2009)
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Stage work
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- Present Laughter (1986){{Cite web|url=http://www.abouttheartists.com/plays/565-present-laughter-by-noel-coward|title=Present Laughter}}
- Biloxi Blues (1986)
- Coastal Disturbances (1987)
- Spoils of War (1989){{cite news |first=Edwin |last=Wilson |title=Theater: Family Skirmishes; Shavian Melodrama |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=November 17, 1988 |page=1}}
- The Night of the Iguana
- The Heidi Chronicles
- The Good Doctor (2000){{cite news |first=Evan |last=Henerson |title=Critics' Picks |newspaper=Daily News |location=Los Angeles |date=August 18, 2000 |page=L.5}}
- Distracted (2007){{cite web |url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/ |title=Home |website=broadwayworld.com}}
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0313882}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American stage actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Actresses from Chicago
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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