Louanne Stephens

Acting

Louanne Stephens

Dallas, Texas, USA

Louanne Stephens, a native Texan, has been active in radio, television, films, and theatre for over 35 years. She has extensive film credits including the recent film “Vengeance” with BJ Novak. Louanne’s television credits include the recurring, award-winning role of Grandma Saracen in “Friday Night Lights,” as well as the role of Ruby on “Longmire” for six seasons, and hundreds of commercials. On stage, Louanne has twice been selected as outstanding actress in a major role by the Dallas theatre critics.

Acting credits

Song to Song poster
5.5

In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.

Song to Song

2017

Instinct poster
6.5

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.

Instinct

1999

Vengeance poster
6.6

Ben, a journalist from New York City, travels to West Texas in order to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with while recording a murder mystery podcast along the way.

Vengeance

2022

Cowgirls n' Angels poster
6.0

A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.

Cowgirls n' Angels

2012

What Josiah Saw poster
5.8

A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.

What Josiah Saw

2021

Dr. T & the Women poster
4.9

A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife’s breakdown, his daughter's fake marriage, his other daughter’s conspiracy theories, and his secretary’s crush. Craving time for himself, he finds solace in a kind outsider.

Dr. T & the Women

2000

Trial: The Price of Passion poster
7.0

Down-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused of murdering her husband.

Trial: The Price of Passion

1992

Blaze poster
6.2

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

Blaze

1989

Certain Guys poster
4.5

Five old friends reunite in Dallas for one buddy's wedding. Over the course of a week, each guy faces a major crisis - Mitch loses the love of his life; Burdett loses his job; Cal unexpectedly discovers he is a father; and Stewart reveals a secret the others might not want to hear. In the end, each one has to rely on the help of his friends to see him through his life-changing dilemma.

Certain Guys

1999

Mahjong and the West poster
6.9

When a young woman returns to Wyoming to bury her mother, she reunites with her childhood friend, a hard-living rodeo princess, who forces her to confront a shared trauma from their past.

Mahjong and the West

2014

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town poster
6.5

Zachary Beaver, a sideshow attraction also known as the world's fattest boy, arrives in the sleepy town of Granger, Texas.

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

2003

A Killing in a Small Town poster
5.1

The gory ax-murder of one suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: self-defense.

A Killing in a Small Town

1990

Finding North poster
5.0

Rhonda, a big-haired bankteller from Brooklyn, encounters Travis, naked, suicidal and about to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. Mistaking him for her perfect man, she stalks him all the way to Danton, Texas. Along the way she slowly comes to realize he is gay and is despondent over the AIDS-related death of his former lover. An alliance, and eventually true friendship, is formed between this extremely odd couple as they embark upon a 'treasure hunt' - with clues provided from beyond the grave.

Finding North

1998

Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story poster
4.9

Bonnie Parker is estranged from her husband while still only just barely eighteen. Clyde Barrow, a handsome charmer who is in love with Bonnie, is a small-time thief, 'borrowing' cars to teach Bonnie to drive. He falls in with W.D. Jones, and their crime levels quickly rise. Soon Bonnie is dragged in with them, due to her love for Clyde, and within a short space of time, everyone is baying for the blood of Bonnie and Clyde.

Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story

1992

Rolling Kansas poster
5.6

A group of friends go on a journey to a secret marijuana forest in Kansas.

Rolling Kansas

2003

Love and Mary poster
5.8

Mary is a sophisticated pastry chef who's struggling to keep the doors of her bakery open. Facing eviction, she decides to return back home with her fiancé, Brent, to collect a sizable engagement gift from her eccentric Texan family. But, when Brent is felled by allergies and unable to travel, Mary bails his identical-twin brother, Jake, out of jail and travels back home passing him off as her fiancé.

Love and Mary

2007