Rhea Perlman

Rhea Perlman

Birthday: 1948-03-31

Place of Birth: Coney Island, New York, USA

Biography: Rhea Jo Perlman (born March 31, 1948) is an American actress and writer. She is best known for her role as head-waitress Carla Tortelli in the sitcom Cheers (1982–1993). Over the course of 11 seasons, Perlman was nominated for ten Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress – winning four times – and was nominated for a record seven Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series. She has also appeared in films, including Canadian Bacon (1995), Matilda (1996), The Sessions (2012), and Poms (2019).

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Canadian Bacon
Canadian Bacon

The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to s...

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10 Items or Less
10 Items or Less

An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outs...

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How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale

Three broke men try to become rich by finding rich women....

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Matilda
Matilda

Matilda Wormwood is an exquisite and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and ...

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Class Act
Class Act

Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is juvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with th...

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Carpool
Carpool

A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the ne...

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A Family Again
A Family Again

A family comes to grips with their own grief after the eldest daughter is killed....

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Beethoven's Big Break
Beethoven's Big Break

Eddie, a struggling animal trainer and single dad suddenly finds himself the personal wrangler for a...

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Sunset Park
Sunset Park

A school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined high school basketball team and turns them...

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A Place to Be Loved
A Place to Be Loved

Gregory Kingsley, a boy passed off onto social services by his natural mother and abused by his natu...

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Painful Secrets
Painful Secrets

Dawn isn't like other kids her age full of typical teenage angst about boys, school and parents. Her...

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We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

Captain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them i...

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To Grandmother's House We Go
To Grandmother's House We Go

When precocious twins Sarah and Julie feel like Mom is tired of them, they take off on an exciting a...

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Love Child
Love Child

The true-story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "fiv...

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You People
You People

A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations ...

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The Christmas Choir
The Christmas Choir

A chance encounter with a homeless man named Bob inspires a workaholic accountant to start a choir ...

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Ted & Venus
Ted & Venus

Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poet...

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Love Comes Lately
Love Comes Lately

Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life -...

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The Trouble with Bliss
The Trouble with Bliss

35-year-old Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has...

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Barbie
Barbie

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Bar...

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Hot Dogs for Gauguin
Hot Dogs for Gauguin

A down-on-his-luck photographer determined to capture visual magic and fame. He concocts an intricat...

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The Ratings Game
The Ratings Game

A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business....

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The Last Halloween
The Last Halloween

Four Martians crash-land on Earth in search of candy for their home planet....

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Oliver's Ghost
Oliver's Ghost

Eleven-year-old Oliver has a unique ability to see "full-bodied apparitions," otherwise known as gho...

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My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson
My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson

A compilation of handheld camera footage, captured in 1995 by Mara Wilson during the filming of 'Mat...

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Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'
Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'

A look behind the scenes of the filming and special effects of the 1996 film 'Matilda'....

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My Little Pony: The Movie
My Little Pony: The Movie

The first day of Spring is on its way and the Little Ponies are preparing for it with a big festival...

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13: The Musical
13: The Musical

After moving from New York City to Indiana, a 12 year old navigates his parents' divorce, his impend...

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NBC 75th Anniversary Special
NBC 75th Anniversary Special

A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments....

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Stamp of a Killer
Stamp of a Killer

A pregnant mother and her young son become the target of a killer....

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There Goes the Neighborhood
There Goes the Neighborhood

A dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychologist, who heads to the ...

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In the Doghouse
In the Doghouse

A family dog is pushed into show business and into taking on the role of breadwinner, as the man of ...

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I'll See You in My Dreams
I'll See You in My Dreams

A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time...

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Houdini
Houdini

The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini....

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Two Daddies?
Two Daddies?

An animated special about a young girl who must learn to accept her divorced mother's remarriage....

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Swap Meet
Swap Meet

The plot: Roy is jealous of Sigi, who attracts Nancy's attention, and has two clumsy guys demolish S...

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Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her tod...

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Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows

The stars of America's greatest comedies - like Cheers, Friends, Taxi and The Big Bang Theory - get ...

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Amazing Stories: The Movie II
Amazing Stories: The Movie II

This anthology gathers four episodes of the 1985-87 television series "Amazing Stories." Santa Claus...

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The Earth Day Special
The Earth Day Special

The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April ...

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Like Normal People
Like Normal People

An intellectually-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love, and are determined to get married, de...

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I Want to Keep My Baby!
I Want to Keep My Baby!

A 15-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her boyfriend and decides to keep the baby and raise her on h...

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Mickey's 60th Birthday
Mickey's 60th Birthday

This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat f...

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Lemon
Lemon

Isaac has seen better days. His acting career is tanking, his blind girlfriend of 10 years plans to ...

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Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville

An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. C...

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The Nightman Cometh: Live
The Nightman Cometh: Live

The Nightman Cometh, the fictional rock opera from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, is brought to ...

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Sing
Sing

A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hostin...

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H.E. Double Hockey Sticks
H.E. Double Hockey Sticks

Satan, in the form of Ms. Beelzebub, sends apprentice demon Griffelkin to Earth's surface to steal t...

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The Sessions
The Sessions

Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a care...

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The Selling of Vince D'Angelo
The Selling of Vince D'Angelo

Danny DeVito stars in and directs this critically acclaimed short film which was part of the ground ...

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Drop-Out Father
Drop-Out Father

Successful advertising executive decides to get out of the rat race but the family rebels at the new...

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Minestrone
Minestrone

A paranoid filmmaker is tortured by his taste for the titular Italian soup...

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A Tale of Two Bunnies
A Tale of Two Bunnies

Two small-town girls arrive in Chicago to find fame and fortune. Ruby wants to be a fashion designer...

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Poms
Poms

After moving to a retirement community, loner Martha eventually befriends her fun-loving neighbor, S...

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Saving Flora
Saving Flora

Flora is a circus elephant who can no longer perform her tricks. The night before she's scheduled to...

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Enid Is Sleeping
Enid Is Sleeping

Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harr...

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Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

The stars come out on Sesame Street in this fun-filled video featuring the show's most memorable mom...

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Spoils of War
Spoils of War

In 1970s New York, Martin (Maguire) hopes to locate his father and possibly reunite the parents who ...

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Funny Face
Funny Face

In a Brooklyn threatened by disfigurement from greedy urban developers, two young people meet in a l...

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Intimate Strangers
Intimate Strangers

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband,...

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The World of Jim Henson
The World of Jim Henson

In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explor...

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Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special

This special celebration of Disneyland's 35th anniversary, bursting at the seams with celebrity came...

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Happily Ever After
Happily Ever After

Third-grader Molly Conway finds out that her parents are getting divorced. She tries everything she ...

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Mr. Bungle: The Night They Came Home
Mr. Bungle: The Night They Came Home

A reconstituted Mr. Bungle assembles in the Eureka public library to perform their unique brand of m...

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The Matchmaker
The Matchmaker

Terrified that his mother may not find the important mental stimulation he believes will stave off A...

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Marvelous and the Black Hole
Marvelous and the Black Hole

A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunct...

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Monty Python: Live at Aspen
Monty Python: Live at Aspen

In March 1998 in Aspen, Colorado, the surviving members of the Monty Python team – John Cleese, Terr...

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Stalk the Wild Child
Stalk the Wild Child

A young boy who had been abandoned as a child and raised by wild dogs is taken to a university where...

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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ...

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National Lampoon's Movie Madness
National Lampoon's Movie Madness

A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas...

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Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

Big Bird and his pals are making musical mayhem as they sing the goofiest, nuttiest, silliest songs ...

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The Frasier Story
The Frasier Story

A retrospective look at how Frasier Crane first came to appear on Cheers, and how the series Frasier...

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The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There

The NBC All Star Hour (1985) was a one-hour primetime television special that brought together stars...

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