Gwen Van Dam

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Known For

Modern Family

Grams

Shameless

Erma

Burlesque

Curler Woman at Grundy Bus Stop

New Girl

Docent

The Orville

Grandmother

Gilmore Girls

Mrs. Van Wyck

Etta

The Incredible Hulk

Mayor Claire Murphy

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Year	Title	Role
2025	Christmas at Mistletoe Manor MOVIE	Hortense Pollard
2025	No Tears in Hell MOVIE	Mother
2024	Blood Star MOVIE	Ma
2024	Interior Chinatown TV	Hazel Carrey
2024	You're Doing Great MOVIE	Elderly Woman
2022	Diamond in the Rough MOVIE	Elderly Lady
2021	Home MOVIE	Nancy
2021	Me You Madness MOVIE	Grandma Betty
2020	Good Mourning MOVIE	Grandma Leanne
2019	Big Boy Pants MOVIE	Stella
2019	Storm MOVIE	Woman at Restaurant
2019	Pocket MOVIE	Grandma
2018	Homecoming TV	Mrs. Trotter
2018	Dead Night MOVIE	Crone
2018	Sleepwalk MOVIE	Lady at the House
2017	The Ugly Christmas Sweater MOVIE	Edna
2017	Mercy Christmas MOVIE	Self
2017	The Orville TV	Grandmother
2016	Insecure TV	Old Lady
2016	Angie Tribeca TV	Kindly Old Woman
2015	Grace and Frankie TV	Marie
2012	Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 TV	Great Aunt Agnes
2011	New Girl TV	Docent
2011	Wilfred TV	Patient #2
2011	Workaholics TV	Cassidy
2011	Shameless TV	Erma
2010	Burlesque MOVIE	Curler Woman at Grundy Bus Stop
2010	The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It MOVIE	80 Year Old Woman
2010	Flexing with Monty MOVIE	Granny
2009	The League TV	Margaret
2009	Modern Family TV	Grams
2009	Still Waiting... MOVIE	Senile Woman
2008	Fall of Hyperion MOVIE	Elderly Woman
2007	Matters of Life and Death MOVIE	Grandma Barbara
2006	Long Lost Son MOVIE	Travel Agent
2004	Joey TV	Grandma
2002	Without a Trace TV	Emma
2001	Legion of the Dead MOVIE	Old Woman
2000	Gilmore Girls TV	Mrs. Van Wyck
1996	Big Bad BeetleBorgs TV	Norma Desdoom
1994	ER TV	Etta
1988	Take My Daughters, Please MOVIE	Margaret
1987	The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd TV	Mrs. Feldman
1986	The Ladies Club MOVIE	Woman No. 1
1985	Shadow Chasers TV	Self
1985	Moonlighting TV	Waitress
1984	A Touch of Scandal MOVIE	White Woman
1983	The Awakening of Candra MOVIE	Mrs. Stern
1983	Second Thoughts MOVIE	Self
1982	Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain MOVIE	Nurse
1982	T. J. Hooker TV	Woman Hostage
1982	Help Wanted: Male MOVIE	Dr. Quinn
1981	The Two Lives of Carol Letner MOVIE	Matron
1981	True Confessions MOVIE	Mrs. Fazenda
1981	Stand by Your Man MOVIE	Mrs. Sims
1981	The Best Little Girl in the World MOVIE	O.R. Nurse
1981	Second-Hand Hearts MOVIE	Waitress at Frankie's
1980	Stir Crazy MOVIE	Mrs. Beatty
1980	The Jayne Mansfield Story MOVIE	Vivian
1980	Gideon's Trumpet MOVIE	Mrs. Lawrence
1979	Knots Landing TV	Sales Clerk
1979	The French Atlantic Affair TV	Barney's Wife
1979	Joni MOVIE	Nurse Pauline
1978	Terror Out of the Sky MOVIE	Ms. Logan
1978	Lassie: The New Beginning MOVIE	Mrs. Waldrup
1978	Coming Home MOVIE	Mrs. Harris
1977	The Incredible Hulk TV	Mayor Claire Murphy
1975	Teenage Seductress MOVIE	Emily Nelson
1971	Pinocchio MOVIE	Madame Suburbia
1970	Husbands MOVIE	Gwen

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