Marcia Cross

Acting

Marcia Cross

Born 1962-03-25 · Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA

Marcia Cross (born March 25, 1962) is an American television actress best known for her roles on Desperate Housewives as well as Melrose Place.

Acting credits

Bad Influence poster
6.0

Wimpy young executive Michael is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in—and then disappears. Later that night, Michael runs into a stranger on a pier, who wheedles his way into Michael's life and turns it upside down.

Bad Influence

1990

Female Perversions poster
5.1

An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister.

Female Perversions

1996

M.A.N.T.I.S. poster
5.2

A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N.T.I.S.) that turns him into a superhero and gives him the ability to fight the crime wave that is engulfing his city.

M.A.N.T.I.S.

1994

No artwork available
NR

Jan Randall, whose brain is affected by inoperable cancer, is deeply afraid of being trapped inside. Refusing to take medications that would reduce her final days to a hospital bed, she moves into a tent in her backyard. Determined to give her one last gift, her husband John courageously takes her on a trip around the world—on foot, in their own hometown—for what is truly the trip of a lifetime.

Exit Right

Bringing Up Bobby poster
4.9

Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future. Olive and Bobby blithely charm their way from one adventure to another until Olive's criminal past catches up with her. Consequently, she must make a choice: continue with a life of crime or leave the person she loves most in an effort to give Bobby a proper chance in life.

Bringing Up Bobby

2011

Just Peck poster
5.3

At 104 pounds dripping wet, baby-faced sophomore Michael Peck (age 15) is not exactly the coolest guy at American High. Peck’s teachers make him feel like an idiot, his classmates make him feel like a geek and his home life is just as bad, with parents who schedule family time in their planners and require him to sign contracts with them about his extra-curricular activities.

Just Peck

2011

The Secret of Karma poster
3.2

The story of a man who sees his past lives from before he was born after being declared dead for the second time.

The Secret of Karma

2020

Living in Fear poster
4.6

A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?

Living in Fear

2000

Target Earth poster
4.4

Unlikely heroes must overcome incredible dangers to save mankind from the threat of an alien invasion.

Target Earth

1998

All She Ever Wanted poster
5.2

Rachel and Tom Stockman are the perfect couple. The only thing they lack is a child. But Rachel has a rare mental disorder, which can cause irreversible birth defects. With all the odds against them, it seems that Tom and Rachel must be reconciled to being childless. But Rachel is determined to have a baby - in fact, she is prepared to risk everything to become pregnant: her marriage, her healthy, even her sanity. So can she prove the medical community wrong? Can she beat the demons inside her own head? Or will she have a terrible price to pay?

All She Ever Wanted

1996

No artwork available
NR

The first U.S. president (Barry Bostwick) and his wife (Patty Duke) endure two terms of turmoil from 1789 to 1797.

George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation

1986

Stephen King's Golden Tales poster
4.0

A collection of horror stories taking the viewer into the dark world of Stephen King, featuring vampires, strange objects and sinister humor. The five 20-minutes tales were all taken from the Tales from the Darkside TV series and strung together as a video feature.

Stephen King's Golden Tales

1993

Dancing in September poster
6.5

A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.

Dancing in September

2001

The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James poster
5.3

This movie looks at the last years (not days, as implied in the title) of famous outlaws, Frank and Jesse James. The film opens in 1877 with the brothers trying to settle down after 15 years of thievery. Frank is shown to be a book-loving and family-oriented man, while brother Jesse is a money-hungry womanizer. The movie follows their lives through Jesse's death at the hands of the "rotten little coward" Bob Ford and Frank's death in 1892.

The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James

1986

Storm and Sorrow poster
6.3

In 1974, mountain climber Molly Higgins (Lori Singer) begins her ascent of Lenin Peak, located in the Pamir Mountains on the edge of the Himalayas. She's part of an international climbing expedition that has brought a team of U.S. climbers into the USSR. But completing their mission won't be easy, as Mother Nature and internal divisions hamper their journey up the perilous peak, putting all their lives in jeopardy. This made-for-TV movie is based on a true story.

Storm and Sorrow

1990

Always Say Goodbye poster
3.3

Anne Kidwell is a sexy, free spirit and independent clothing designer who works hard and plays harder. She meets her match in photographer and serial bachelor Nick Evans. Both of them turn up the personal fires, but neither can commit.

Always Say Goodbye

1997

No artwork available
9.0

A look back at the pop cultural phenomenon

When Melrose Place Ruled The World

Brass poster
5.0

The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.

Brass

1985

All the Way to the Ocean poster
NR

An uplifting story about two best friends, Isaac and James and their discovery of the cause and effect relationship between our cities' storm drains and the world's oceans, lakes and rivers. Helping the kids along this journey are a concerned Crane from the coast line, a surprisingly insightful Surfer Dude and James' Mom.

All the Way to the Ocean

2016