Martha Plimpton

She was also nominated for a 2002 Emmy Award for best guest actress in a drama series. Of all actors ever nominated for Academy Awards, Robson has the earliest birthdate. As of 2002 she continues to perform in films while pursing stage acting with The Steppenwolf Theater Company (most notably in Hedda Gabler). In 1933 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Lady for a Day. She was the lead in a short-run television show on HBO called The Defenders. She made 45 films during the 1930s, taking such roles as The Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, Countess Vronsky in Anna Karenina, and Aunt Polly in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In the 1990s she developed a reputation for being a very professional actress, taking many smaller roles in mainstream films like Beautiful Girls and in films like 200 Cigarettes and John Waters' Pecker. She made several silent films, then succsefully transitioned to talkies.

In the film The Mosquito Coast she met boyfriend River Phoenix, whom she later left because of his drug use. Born Mary Jeannette Robinson in Melbourne, she starred in the movie version of the play she wrote, A Night Out, in 1915. After her part in the cult classic The Goonies she built up a reputation for being able to play rebellious tomboys, appearing in such films as Shy People, Silence Like Glass and Stars and Bars. May Robson (April 19, 1858 - October 20, 1942) was an Australian actress. She began her career in the 1980s in the film The River Rat. Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) was born from Hollywood blood with parents Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton.