Margo Martindale is an American actress with a net worth of $4 million. Highly versatile character actress Margo Martindale has appeared in such TV shows as “Justified,” “The

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Americans,” “The Good Wife,” “Sneaky Pete,” and “Mrs. America.” She has also appeared in many films, among which are “Lorenzo’s Oil,” “Marvin’s Room,” “The Hours,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “August: Osage County,” and “Cocaine Bear.”

Early Life and Education

Margo Martindale was born on July 18, 1951, in Jacksonville, Texas, as the youngest of three children of Margaret and William. Her brother Billy became a professional golfer and golf course architect. Martindale golfed in high school, as well as did cheer and drama. She graduated in 1969, then attended Lon Morris College before transferring to the University of Michigan. Martindale also took summer school at Harvard University while at Michigan.

Film Career

Martindale had her film debut with the 1990 Tom Cruise auto racing movie “Days of Thunder.” She then took on a role in the 1991 Disney superhero movie “The Rocketeer.” In 1992, Martindale starred alongside an Oscar-nominated Susan Sarandon in the drama “Lorenzo’s Oil”; this would be the first of several times she appeared on film opposite a Best Actress Oscar nominee. After roles in “The Firm” and “Nobody’s Fool,” Martindale played in “Dead Man Walking,” which earned Sarandon her Oscar. She appeared in “Marvin’s Room” and “Ghosts of Mississippi” in 1996, and in 1997 she was in “Critical Care”

and “Eye of God.” Martindale’s last films of the decade were “Twilight,” “Practical Magic,” “In Dreams,” and “Ride with the Devil.” Starting the new millennium, she had roles in “28 Days” and “Proof of Life.” Martindale continued on to work alongside Nicole Kidman in both “The Hours” and “The Human Stain”; she also was in Thomas Vinterberg’s “It’s All About Love.” In 2004, she was the nasty mother of Hilary Swank’s lead character in Clint Eastwood’s Best Picture Oscar winner “Million Dollar Baby.” Martindale followed this up with roles in “Wedding Daze” and “Paris, je t’aime.” She had one of her busiest years on screen ever in 2007, showing up in such offerings as “The Savages,” “Rocket Science,” “Feast of Love,” and “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.” Among her last films of the decade were “Management,” “The Winning Season,” “Hannah Montana: The Movie,” and “Orphan.”

Martindale was in three movies in 2010: “Forged,” “Secretariat,” and “Main Street.” She was in “Win Win” in 2011. After a brief hiatus, Martindale was in three movies in 2013: “Beautiful Creatures,” “Bluebird,” and the big-screen adaptation of Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “August: Osage County.” She then starred in the Christian drama “Heaven is for Real” in 2014. Martindale had a blockbuster year in 2016, starring in “Sophie

and the Rising Sun,” “The Hollars,” and “Mother’s Day,” among other releases. In 2017, she appeared in “Wilson,” “Table 19,” and “Downsizing,” and provided her voice for the animated film “Cars 3.” Martindale’s next credits were “Instant Family,” “Blow the Man Down,” and “The Kitchen.” Starting the 2020s, she portrayed Mammaw Bledsoe in “Uncle Frank” and Mary O’Connell in “Lazy Susan.” In 2022, she was in “Family Squares,” and in 2023 she portrayed Ranger Liz in the comedy horror “Cocaine Bear.” Martindale continued to voice Mrs. Twit in the 2025 animated musical comedy “The Twits,” based on the children’s novel by Roald Dahl. Then, she featured in “Dead Letters” and “Just Picture It.”

Television Career

During the late 1980s to the 1990s, Martindale worked in various television films and made guest appearances on TV shows including “Lonesome Dove,” “Law & Order,” and “Snoops.” In the early 2000s, she made guest appearances on “Welcome to New York” and “100 Centre Street” and had a role in the ensemble cast of the HBO television film “The Laramie Project.” After several more television films, including “An Unexpected Love” and “Silver Bells,” Martindale took on the recurring role of Camilla Figg on “Dexter” from 2006 to 2008. She also had a recurring role on “The Riches” from 2007 to 2008. Martindale returned for another recurring role, as Nurse Klowden, on “Mercy” from 2009 to 2010. She played crime

family matriarch Mags Bennett on the FX series “Justified” in its second season in 2011. For this, she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Martindale then had a leading role on the short-lived CBS series “A Gifted Man” from 2011 to 2012. She then guest-starred on “Suits,” “Person of Interest,” “Smash,” “New Girl,” and “Masters of Sex.” Martindale started two significant roles in 2013: Carol Miller on the CBS sitcom “The Millers” and KGB handler Claudia on the FX series “The Americans.” She was on the former from 2013 until 2014 and the latter until its end in 2018. Martindale earned four Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for “The Americans” and won two.

Between 2014 and 2020, Martindale voiced a fictionalized version of herself on the Netflix adult animated comedy series “BoJack Horseman.” She had numerous other significant roles throughout those years, among them the recurring role of Ruth Eastman on “The Good Wife” and the lead role of Audrey Bernhardt on “Sneaky Pete.” Martindale once again played the role of Ruth Eastman on four episodes of “The Good Fight.” At the same time, she voiced Ma Beagle on eight episodes of the Disney animated series “DuckTales.” Martindale appeared in the limited series “The Act” in 2019, and in 2020 had a lead role on

the miniseries “Mrs. America.” For her role as US congresswoman and activist Bella Abzug on “Mrs. America,” she was nominated for an Emmy Award. Next, Martindale had a recurring role on “Your Honor” from 2020 to 2023. During that time, she portrayed Lucianne Goldberg on “Impeachment: American Crime Story” and had a main role on the Netflix series “The Watcher.” In 2023, Martindale played the Mother Superior of Betty Gilpin’s protagonist in the Peacock limited series “Mrs. Davis.” The following year, she narrated the Hallmark+ series “The Chicken Sisters” and starred on the short-lived Amazon Prime Video series “The Sticky.” In 2025, Martindale had a guest role as Dr. Hamm on the Peacock series “Poker Face.”

Theater Career

Martindale started her career on stage in the early 1980s at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She later originated Truvy Jones’s part in the first production of “Steel Magnolias” and appeared in the play’s original national tour. In the 1990s, Martindale acted in such plays as “The Stick Wife,” “The Sugar Bean Sisters,” and “Always… Patsy Cline.” She made her Broadway debut in the 2003 revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and earned a Tony Award nomination for her performance as Big Mama.

Personal Life

Martindale has been married to musician Bill Boals since 1986. Together, they have a daughter named Maggie.