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[[WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman Esteemed Character Actress]] Margo Martindale (born July 18, 1951 in Jacksonville, Texas) is an American film, stage, and television actress. As comfortable playing cold-blooded villains as she is playing folksy mothers, chances are you know her face and voice, if not her name.

Although she's given many great performances in film and tv, her StarMakingRole came in the form of FX's Elmore Leonard series ''Series/{{Justified}}'', where she earned critical acclaim as the complex yet terrifying drug kingpin and criminal matriarch, Mags Bennett. The role won her numerous awards including an Emmy and a Critics' Choice Television Award; her appearance in Season 2 is widely regarded as a series high point.

[[http://www.vulture.com/2017/06/ann-dowd-margo-martindale-conversation.html No relation to]] Creator/AnnDowd, beyond being actors who came to prominence in 2010s TV shows.

!Tropes
* AdamWesting: She plays herself as a semi-sane criminal in ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman''.
!Film Roles
* 1990 ''Film/DaysOfThunder'' as Donna
* 1991 ''Film/TheRocketeer'' as Millie
* 1992 ''Film/LorenzosOil'' as Wendy Gimble
* 1993 ''Film/TheFirm'' as Nina Huff
* 1994 ''Film/NobodysFool'' as Birdy
* 1995 ''Film/DeadManWalking'' as Sister Colleen
* 1996 ''Film/GhostsOfMississippi'' as Clara Mayfield
* 1998 ''Film/PracticalMagic'' as Linda Bennett
* 1999 ''Film/RideWithTheDevil'' as Wilma Brown
* 2000 ''Film/TwentyEightDays'' as Betty
* 2002 ''Film/TheHours'' as Mrs. Latch
* 2004 ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'' as Earline Fitzgerald
* 2007 ''Film/WalkHard'' as Ma Cox
* 2009 ''Film/{{Orphan}}'' as Dr. Browning
* 2009 ''Series/HannahMontana TheMovie'' as Ruby
* 2010 ''Film/{{Secretariat}}'' as Elizabeth Hamm
* 2013 ''Film/BeautifulCreatures'' as Aunt Del
* 2013 ''Film/AugustOsageCounty'' as Mattie Fae Aiken
* 2016 ''Film/TheHollars'' as Sally Hollar
* 2023 ''Film/CocaineBear'' as Liz

!!Television Roles
* 1999 ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' as Verna Henderson
* 2002 ''Theatre/TheLaramieProject'' as Trish Steger
* 2005 ''Series/{{Medium}}'' as Catherine
* 2006 ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' as Camilla Figg
* 2007-2008 ''Series/TheRiches'' as Nina Burns
* 2009-2010 ''Series/{{Mercy}}'' as Nurse Klowden
* 2011 ''Series/{{Justified}}'' as Mags Bennett
* 2011-2012 ''Series/AGiftedMan'' as Rita Perkins-Hall
* 2013-2015 ''Series/TheMillers'' as Carol Miller
* 2013-2017 ''Series/TheAmericans'' as Claudia
* 2014-2020 ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' as [[InsistentTerminology Character Actress]] [[AdamWesting Margo Martindale]]
* 2015-2016 ''Series/TheGoodWife'' as Ruth Eastman
** 2018-present ''Series/TheGoodFight'' as Ruth Eastman
* 2015-2019 ''Sneaky Pete'' as Audrey Bernhardt
* 2017-2021 ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' as Ma Beagle
* 2020 ''Series/MrsAmerica'' as Representative Bella Abzug
* 2020-present ''Series/YourHonor'' as Senator Elizabeth Guthrie
* 2021 ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' as Judge Morpho
* 2021 ''Series/{{Impeachment}}: Series/AmericanCrimeStory'' as Lucianne Goldberg
* 2022 ''Series/TheWatcher'' as Big Mo
* 2023 ''Series/MrsDavis'' as Mother Superior