Deanna Dunagan

Acting

Deanna Dunagan

Born 1940-05-25 · Monahans, Texas, USA

Deanna Dunagan (born May 25, 1940) is an American actress. While principally active as a stage actress, she has also worked in television and film. She is best known for her Tony Award-winning portrayal of Violet Weston in Tracy Letts' August: Osage County and for her portrayal of Nana in M. Night Shyamalan's 2015 film The Visit. She has also appeared in the recurring roles of Mother Bernadette on the Fox television series The Exorcist and Mrs. Charles on Chicago Med. She portrayed Dr. Willa Sipe in the 2018 film An Acceptable Loss by writer Joe Chappelle; and starred as Sharon in the 2021 film Stillwater alongside Matt Damon and Abigail Breslin.

Acting credits

Asteroid City poster
6.5

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

Asteroid City

2023

The Visit poster
6.3

A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.

The Visit

2015

Stillwater poster
6.6

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

Stillwater

2021

Running Scared poster
6.1

Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.

Running Scared

1986

Losing Isaiah poster
6.5

Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.

Losing Isaiah

1995

Ghostlight poster
7.1

When melancholic construction worker Dan finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life, he and his family are forced to confront a personal loss.

Ghostlight

2024

Will: G. Gordon Liddy poster
5.0

Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.

Will: G. Gordon Liddy

1982

The Naked Face poster
5.5

Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince the cops of his innocence, Dr. Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself.

The Naked Face

1984

An Acceptable Loss poster
6.3

Former top U.S. security adviser Elizabeth "Libby" Lamm is threatened by associates from her dark past including Rachel Burke a steely, commanding politician with an unwavering knack for achieving her goals. Colluding with Rachel is Adrian, an unyielding, patriotic chief of staff. Martin harbors another type of obsession with Libby in this story of betrayal and regret.

An Acceptable Loss

2019

So Cold the River poster
5.4

A documentary filmmaker's research on a town's mysterious benefactor unearths an unexplained evil while staying at a local resort.

So Cold the River

2022

Men Don't Leave poster
6.3

A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.

Men Don't Leave

1990

Mariachi Gringo poster
6.5

A stifled, small-town man stuck in a dead end life, runs away to Mexico to be a mariachi singer. MARIACHI GRINGO is a musical tour-de-force exploring the reality of "following your dreams" across cultural, personal, social and geographical borders.

Mariachi Gringo

2012

The Robber Bridegroom poster
NR

In a small Southern town, a plantation owner is duped into thinking a thief is a kind stranger. To repay the stranger for stopping a robbery, the plantation owner invites him to his home to meet his daughter.

The Robber Bridegroom

1980

Just Like a Woman poster
5.5

Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a darker secret.

Just Like a Woman

2013

The Roommate poster
7.0

Set in 1952, this tells of two young men who are polar opposites being assigned to the same dorm room at Northwestern University.

The Roommate

1984

Two Fathers' Justice poster
7.5

On the eve of their wedding day, Karen and Johnny are murdered by drug dealers who are actually after the groom's roommate. The killers are caught, but they jump bail and flee the country, outside the reach of U.S. authorities. The fathers of the victims, Stackhouse, a macho, ex-Marine mill worker, and Bradley, a priggish, millionaire businessman, vow to bring them back to justice. The unlikely pair undergo commando training in preparation for a raid on the island hide-out of the fugitives.

Two Fathers' Justice

1985

A Matter of Principle poster
NR

A miserable man who doesn't believe in the holidays must contend with his 11 children and wife celebrating the most wonderful time of the year.

A Matter of Principle

1984

Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent poster
7.5

Two fathers from very different backgrounds reunite after 8 years to pursue the escaped drug dealer responsible for the deaths of their son and daughter.

Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent

1994

Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine poster
NR

The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens' makes a magical and lasting change in the lives of an imaginative 12-year-old boy and a loving young woman.

Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine

1982

No artwork available
5.5

Loneliness and regret encompass a small neighborhood in Chicago, and its residents will do anything to change their lives. Under divine circumstances, they are given their wish. Dimension follows the tragic tale of Chance Pullman, and the way in which his own troubled past comes to affect and change the lives of those who come into contact with him. A reminder of how the littlest things often have the biggest consequences, Chance provides strangers and close friends with the opportunity to completely alter their life, but with one limitation: They can only change exactly three inches about themselves.

Dimension

2007