American actress

Beth Grant

Beth Grant is an American character actress. Her credits include Rain Man (1988), Child's Play 2 (1990), Flatliners (1990), Speed (1994), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), A Time To Kill (1996), Sordid Lives (2000), Donnie Darko (2001), Wonderfalls (2004), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Jericho (2006–2007), No Country for Old Men (2007), Pushing Daisies (2008), Dear Lemon Lima (2009), The Artist (2011), The Mindy Project (2012–2017), Mockingbird Lane (2012), As I Lay Dying (2013), Bad Words (2013), Faults (2014), Consumed (2015), Jackie (2016), Lucky (2017), A Series of Unfortunate Events (2019), Dollface (2019–2022), Grace and Frankie (2022), Mayfair Witches (2023), Carol & the End of the World (2024), and The Bondsman (2025).

Born

1949

September 18

Died

Living

Era

1940s

Country

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Beth, in brief

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Key dates

1949 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

96 Emperor Domitian is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects. Nerva is then proclaimed as his successor.
324 Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1048 Battle of Kapetron between a combined Byzantine-Georgian army and a Seljuq army.
1066 Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands with Tostig Godwinson at the mouth of the Humber River and begins his invasion of England.

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The world in 1949

When Beth arrived

april 1 Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
april 1 The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
april 18 The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force, declaring Éire to be a republic and severing Ireland's "association" with the Commonwealth of Nations.
april 20 Amethyst incident: The People's Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on September 18

Fred Willard 1933–2020 American actor, comedian, and writer (born 1933) Grey Owl 1888–1938 English-Canadian environmentalist and author (born 1888) Henry Wittenberg 1918–2010 American wrestler (born 1918) Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri 1937– South African politician (died 2009) James Marsden 1973– American actor James Scullin 1876–1953 Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1876) Jimmie Rodgers 1933–1933 American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1897) Keith Morris 1955– American singer-songwriter Mário Jardel 1973– Brazilian footballer

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1949

Alan García 1949–2019 Peruvian lawyer and politician, twice President of Peru (born 1949) Alla Pugacheva 1949– Russian singer-songwriter and actress Anna Wintour 1949– English-American journalist Billy Joel 1949– American singer-songwriter and pianist Carlos the Jackal 1949– Venezuelan terrorist David A. Cherry 1949– American artist and illustrator Dominique Strauss-Kahn 1949– French economist, lawyer, and politician, French Minister of Finance Don Baylor 1949–2017 American baseball player (born 1949) Gil Scott-Heron 1949–2011 American singer-songwriter and author (died 2011)

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