She has just received her 2005 Emmy nomination for Oustanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as 'Lucille' on FOX's critically-acclaimed "Arrested Development." The show also received the Best Comedy nomination, its second after winning last year. She will return this fall for the third season in the role that landed her atop Entertainment Weekly's much sought after 2005 "Must" list. The series won the 2004 Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series and was nominated for Golden Globe and SAG Awards.
Emmy Awards are nothing new to Jessica, she won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress for her work on NBC's "Amy Prentiss." She also earned Emmy nominations for her role on "Trapper John, M.D." and guest star role on "The Streets of San Francisco."
Walter's additional television credits include more than one hundred roles on shows such as "Mission: Impossible," "The Immortal," "All That Glitters," "Three's a Crowd," "Murder, She Wrote," Coach," "Law & Order," "Touched By an Angel," "Just Shoot Me," and "Jack & Jill." She was the voice of the mother dinosaur on the series "Dinosaurs" and was also a regular on "The Round Table," "Oh Baby," and "Aaron's Way."
She starred in the miniseries "Arthur Hailey's Wheels," as well as in several MOWs including "Women in Chains," "Home for the Holidays," "She's Dressed to Kill," "Scruples," and "Thursday's Child." She was seen recently in Lifetime's "I Do (But I Don't)."
Walter's feature films include Clint Eastwood's directorial debut "Play Misty for Me" which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Her first big screen appearance was in "Lilith," opposite Warren Beatty. Additional film credits include roles in Sidney Lumet's "The Group," "Grand Prix," Bye Buy Braverman," "Number One," "Spring Fever," "Going Ape," The Flamingo Kid," "Tapeheads," Ghost in the Machine," "PCU," "The Temptress," "The Slums of Beverly Hills," "Grownups," and most recently as Adrien Brody's mother in "Dummy."
A graduate of New York's High School of the Performing Arts and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Walter has extensive theater credits that include productions both on- and off-Broadway. On Broadway, she has appeared in Peter Ustinov's "Photo Finish," which earned her the Clarence Derwent Award as Most Promising Newcomer, "A Severed Head," "Advise and Consent," "Night Life," "and Neils Simon's "Rumors."
Her off-Broadway credits include roles at Playwrights Horizons and in "Tartuffe" at the Los Angeles Theater Center and regional theater appearances at New Haven's Longwharf Theater, Bershire Theater Festival, and Bucks County Playhouse, among others.
Walter lives in New York with her husband, actor Ron Leibman
