Kathleen Quinlan
Acting
Biography
Kathleen Denise Quinlan Abbott (born November 19, 1954) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1977 film of the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and her Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated role in the 1995 film Apollo 13, along with many roles in other feature films, television movies and series, in a career spanning almost five decades.
She made her feature film debut in Mel Stuart's One Is a Lonely Number (1972) follwed by George Lucas' American Graffiti (1973) and made her definite breakthrough in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) as Deborah Blake.
As actor 112
House
2004
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Hollywood Squares
1998
Prison Break
2005
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
Ironside
1967
Glee
2009
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
The Waltons
1972
Stargate Universe
2009
Emergency!
1972
Mayans M.C.
2018
Police Woman
1974
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
Family Law
1999
The Oscars
1953
Kojak
1973
Switch
1975
Event Horizon
1997
Marvel's Runaways
2017
The Event
2010
Where Are They Now?
1999
Apollo 13
1995
The Hills Have Eyes
2006
Made of Honor
2008
Joe Forrester
1975
The Hidden Room
1991
Lucas Tanner
1974
Blue
2012
Prison Break: The Final Break
2009
The Doors
1991
American Graffiti
1973
Breach
2007
A Civil Action
1998
Breakdown
1997
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
Three for the Road
1975
Chimera Strain
2018
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
Horns
2013
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Warning Sign
1985
Parallel
2018
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
2024
Hanky Panky
1982
Airport '77
1977
Zeus & Roxanne
1997
Strays
1991
Lawn Dogs
1997
Elektra Luxx
2011
Trial by Jury
1994
Sunset
1988
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
El padrino: The Latin Godfather
2004
The Riverman
2004
Cinema Verite
2011
Holiday Hearts
Lifeguard
1976
My Giant
1998
The Devil Has a Name
2019
Stolen Babies
1993
Okay
2026
The Battle of Shaker Heights
2003
Wild Thing
1987
Clara's Heart
1988
ADDicted
2017
The River Why
2010
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977
Sunday Lovers
1980
The Runner Stumbles
1979
The Stairs
2021
The Promise
1979
Last Light
1993
An American Story
1992
Picture Windows: Lightning
1995
Trapped
1989
The Dead Will Tell
2004
Perfect Alibi
1995
Independence Day
1983
Humble Pie
2007
Where Have All the People Gone
1974
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975
Walking with Herb
2021
Life's an Itch
2012
When She Says No
1984
Perfect Romance
2004
Nightmare in Blood
1978
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
Little Ladies of the Night
1977
The Abduction of Saint Anne
1975
Blessings
2003
She's in the Army Now
1981
Saving My Baby
2019
In the Lake of the Woods
1996
Lucas Tanner
1974
After
2014
How Not to Propose
2015
Harm's Way
2008
Blackout
1985
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996
Can Ellen Be Saved?
1974
The Missing Are Deadly
1975
Children of the Night
1985
The Operation
1990
The Man Outside
1987
Dreams Lost, Dreams Found
1987
The Last Winter
1984
The Dissection of Thanksgiving
2008
Elizabeth Blue
2017
The Doors: The Road of Excess
1997
Eagles in the Chicken Coop
2011
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
2003