Ann Dowd

Ann Dowd
Dowd at the 2012 Peabody Awards
Born	(1956-01-30) January 30, 1956 (age 68) Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	College of the Holy Cross (BA) DePaul University (MFA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Lawrence Arancio ​ (m. 1984)​
Children	3

Ann Dowd (born January 30, 1956) is an American actress. She has appeared in numerous films, including Green Card (1990), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Philadelphia (1993), Garden State (2004), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Marley & Me (2008), Compliance (2012), Side Effects (2013), St. Vincent (2014), Captain Fantastic (2016), Hereditary (2018), and Mass (2021). For Compliance, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. For Mass, she earned nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a Critics' Choice Award.^[1]

Dowd was a series regular on the HBO series The Leftovers (2014–2017), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She plays Aunt Lydia Clements on the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–present), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.