Tess Harper's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Christy Fairlight S… Gun Virginia

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Buried 2007 - Kiss the Bride 2007 - No Country for Old Men 2007 - Saving Sarah Cain 2006 - Jesus, Mary and Joey 2006 - Karla 2005 - Loggerheads 2000 - The In Crowd 1997 - The Jackal 1992 - The Turning 1991 - The Man In The Moon 1990 - Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? 1989 - Her Alibi 1988 - Criminal Law 1987 - Ishtar 1986 - Crimes of the Heart 1984 - Flashpoint 1983 - Tender Mercies 1983 - Silkwood 1983 - Amityville 3-D

BIOGRAPHY:

Attended Arkansas State University at Beebe, Arkansas, where she had leading roles in the musical "Little Mary Sunshine" and "Arsenic and Old Lace." During the late 1960s, she did "street" acting in the theme parks, Dogpatch, USA, in Jasper, AR, and Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO. She was discovered while doing theater work in Dallas, TX.


TRIVIA:

• She worked so hard to get rid of her Arkansas hillbilly accent and of course what does she often play... a country lady.
• She was involved with Southwest Missouri State University's Tent Theatre, in Springfield, Missouri, in the same summer as Kathleen Turner. SMSU's Tent Theatre has also had as some of its graduates, 'Brad Pitt' (qv), 'John Goodman (I)' (qv), and a few others presently on Broadway.