Nora Dunn
Life and achievements
Dunn comes from a family of Irish- Americans. She graduated in Chicago to study art, studied at Jean Sheldon Acting Workshop in San Francisco and was a member of the group The Second City.
Dunn appeared on the comedy show Saturday Night Live in the years 1985 to 1990. It is one of five actors who have survived the layoffs in 1986 due to the poor rates of the consignment; to the other include Jon Lovitz and Dennis Miller.
Dunn played her first film role opposite Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith in the comedy Working Girl from 1988. During 1996 to 1999 she played the role of Dr. Reynolds in the television series The Nanny. In the comedy Max Keeble 's great plan (2001) she played the role of Lily Keeble. In the comedy Laws of Attraction (2004 ), in which Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore embody lawyers, she was seen in the role of Judge Abramovitz.
Dunn wrote a screenplay, which she wants to film as a director and published the book Nobody's Rib.