Holland Taylor

American screen and stage actress who won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on The Practice (1998–2003). For her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–2015), she received a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Taylor's other notable television credits include starring roles on the sitcoms Bosom Buddies (1980–1982), The Powers That Be (1992–1993) and The Naked Truth (1995–1998). She also appeared as Jill Ollinger on the soap opera All My Children (1981–1983), as Peggy Peabody on The L Word (2004–2008), and as Ida Silver on Mr. Mercedes (2017–2019). In 2020, she received critical praise and her eighth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ellen Kincaid in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood.

Taylor's feature film credits include Romancing the Stone (1984) and its sequel (1985), Alice (1990), To Die For (1995), One Fine Day (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), The Truman Show (1998), Happy Accidents (2000), Keeping the Faith (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), The Wedding Date (2005), Baby Mama (2008), Gloria Bell (2018), Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), and The Stand In (2020).

Taylor wrote and starred in the one-woman play, Ann (Broadway, 2013), based on the life and work of Ann Richards. For this she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress. In 2022 she returned to the role for its long-anticipated West Coast premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse, the state theater of California.

On 30 November 2015, while answering a question about marriage, in a radio interview with WNYC, Taylor revealed that she was in a relationship with a younger woman and that most of her relationships have been with women. Her partner was later reported to be actress Sarah Paulson, since 2015.