Ellen Muth

Acting

Ellen Muth

Born 1981-03-06 · New Milford, Connecticut, USA

Ellen Muth (born March 6, 1981) is a retired American actress best known for her role as Georgia 'George' Lass in Showtime's series Dead Like Me (2003–2004 series, 2009 film). As of 2004, she was a member of Intertel and Mensa, high-IQ societies. She attended the Skip Barber Racing Schoo and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. After a brief stint as a model with Ford Models and Rascal's Agency, Muth pursued a career in acting, studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City, and getting her first professional experience doing commercials in 1993. Her first major role was in the 1995 film Dolores Claiborne. She followed that with a role in the eighth-season premiere of Law & Order. Her appearance as the daughter in the 1999 film The Young Girl and the Monsoon earned praise from Stephen Holden of The New York Times for her range in portraying a character "who one minute can be as clinging as a baby and the next delights in cruelly demolishing the nearest grownup with laser-like sarcasm" and her chemistry "whenever Constance (who narrates the film) is on the screen with her father Hank (Terry Kinney)" She starred in the 2003–04 Showtime television series Dead Like Me in the role of Georgia 'George' Lass, the protagonist and one of a team of grim reapers. After some delay, Dead Like Me: Life After Death, a film directed by Stephen Herek based on Dead Like Me and featuring many members of the show's cast, including Muth, was released direct-to-video in March 2009. In 2012, she returned to the big screen in the romantic comedy Margarine Wars alongside Robert Loggia and Doris Roberts. The film debuted in Los Angeles on March 29, 2012 In 2013, she made a guest appearance in two episodes of the first season of the TV series Hannibal, produced by Bryan Fuller, the creator of Dead Like Me. In a 2015 interview, she confirmed that she had "hit the pause button on the acting" part of her life.

Acting credits

Dolores Claiborne poster
7.3

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

Dolores Claiborne

1995

Dead Like Me: Life After Death poster
6.4

When George and her colleagues get a new boss whose focus is on moving souls quickly and enjoying life without consequences, the team begins to break the strict reaper rules. While her friends fall victim to their desires for money, success, and fame, George breaks another rule by revealing her true identity to her living family.

Dead Like Me: Life After Death

2009

A Gentleman's Game poster
5.2

A drama revolving around characters whose lives are transformed one summer at an exclusive East Coast country club.

A Gentleman's Game

2002

Superfire poster
5.1

A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.

Superfire

2002

Only Love poster
5.5

Two young lovers whose romantic dreams were shattered, are reunited years later in this sweeping story of fobidden love.

Only Love

1998

Two Against Time poster
4.7

This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery helps to overcome the longtime antagonistic relationship that the two have developed.

Two Against Time

2002

Cora Unashamed poster
7.3

Cora Jenkins and her parents are the only African-Americans in their community in 1920s Iowa, supported only by Cora's wages as housekeeper to the wealthy Studevants. When tragedy strikes, will Cora speak the truth...with consequences? From the short story by Langston Hughes.

Cora Unashamed

2000

Margarine Wars poster
NR

A sixties psychedelic counterculture clash occurs during the "Summer of Love" when an aspiring hippie from New York dupes the son of a Swedish dairy farmer into smuggling illegal margarine into butter-rich Wisconsin

Margarine Wars

2012

The Truth About Jane poster
6.3

High schooler Jane struggles with the self-discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl. However, this is only the start of Jane's troubles when her unaccepting mother Janice also contends with the surprising revelation brought forth by her only daughter.

The Truth About Jane

2000

Rose and Violet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rose and Violet

2013

VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media poster
5.4

This lively documentary explores the rise and fall of physical media from the origin of film all the way through the video store era into digital media, focusing on B-movie and cult films. With icons like Joe Bob Briggs (MonsterVision), Lloyd Kaufman (Toxic Avenger), Greg Sestero (The Room), Debbie Rochon (Return to Nuke 'Em High), Deborah Reed (Troll 2), Mark Frazer (Samurai Cop), James Nguyen (Birdemic) and many others.

VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media

2016

The Young Girl and the Monsoon poster
10.0

A photojournalist upsets his daughter and loses his girlfriend by covering stories in remote and dangerous locations.

The Young Girl and the Monsoon

2001

Rain poster
5.1

Set in contemporary America's heartland, Rain tells a story of murder, sex, and redemption set against the backdrop of a dead-end town suffering through a severe drought. Patsy, the Sheriff's wife is having an affair with Paul, another woman's husband. The Sheriff's adopted teenage son is having an affair with Paul's wife, Ellen, a woman with home the Sheriff once had an affair himself. As the summer gets hotter and the rain fails to arrive, the fields, the buildings, and everyone's private lives are set to burst into flames.

Rain

2001

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1.0

A short film from 2008 directed by Jeff Warden and starring Ellen Muth.

Jack N Jill

2008

No artwork available
3.7

Professor Vost has been keeping a deep, dark secret from his daughter Addie about her deceased mother, Fiona. Unfortunately, a curious Tofu lets the cat out of the bag. Will Addie be cool with what happened to mom?

Tofu the Vegan Zombie in Zombie Dearest

2007

Exorcism of Fleete Marish poster
NR

Many years ago in the Acadian forest, a local sheriff and his oldest friend are forced to perform an exorcism in a remote cabin the woods.

Exorcism of Fleete Marish

2023

Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast poster
NR

A modern film adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's original short story.

Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast

2012