--- name: "Anne Haney" canonical: "https://film.one/person/anne-haney" fi1m_id: "anne-haney" imdb_id: "nm0359774" tmdb_id: 11718 wikidata_id: "Q530627" roles: ["Actor"] born: "4 March 1934" died: "26 May 2001" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 76 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-05T04:18:07.457683+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Anne Haney ## Identity Anne Haney - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anne-haney - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** anne-haney - **IMDb ID:** nm0359774 - **TMDB ID:** 11718 - **Wikidata ID:** Q530627 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Haney, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q530627, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359774/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11718 Actor. Born 4 March 1934 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Died 26 May 2001. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 4 March 1934, Memphis, Tennessee, USA - **Died:** 26 May 2001 - **Active:** 1993–1997 - **Also known as:** Anne T. Haney - **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 72 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Action & Adventure 1, Family 1, Fantasy 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $744m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Haney, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q530627, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359774/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11718 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Mrs. Doubtfire*](https://film.one/film/mrs-doubtfire.md) (74) - **Netflix:** [*Liar Liar*](https://film.one/film/liar-liar.md) (68) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Anne Haney > Anne Haney spent two decades playing the woman behind the desk who is not going to be talked round: secretaries, social workers, court supervisors. It is a small trade, and she practised it with more care than most of the films around her deserved. Watch Anne Haney take a lie. In *Liar Liar* (1997) she is Greta, secretary to Jim Carrey's Fletcher Reede, and she receives each of his excuses with the same flat, unblinking patience, the face of a woman who has heard every one of them before and stopped listening some time ago. We laughed, and it was the deadness of the delivery that did it. Carrey is spinning at full speed and she simply declines to move. That was her trade. She came to it late, not acting professionally until 1970, on stage and in commercials in Atlanta, and not reaching films until *Hopscotch* (1980). What followed was a working actor's career rather than a star's: television guest parts through the 1980s and 1990s, recurring roles on *Mama's Family* and *L.A. Law*, a visit each to *Star Trek: The Next Generation* and *Deep Space Nine*, and a run of small film roles in which she was, over and over, the person in charge. A judge, a social worker, a mother, a woman with a clipboard. The best known of those is Mrs. Sellner in *Mrs. Doubtfire* (1993), the family court supervisor whose visits Robin Williams has to get through in a frock and latex. The film gives her a job rather than a character, and the job is to be the one person in the house who cannot be let in on the joke. Haney does not overplay the sternness, which is why the scenes work as farce rather than as cruelty. She turns up again in *The American President* (1995) as a White House staffer and in Gus Van Sant's *Psycho* (1998) as Mrs. Chambers, both parts of the same size and shape. On stage, by the accounts we trust, she was allowed more. Her Margaret Fielding in *Verdigris* at Theatre West was noted for its hauteur and for a range the screen roles never asked of her. That is the only reservation anyone has ever recorded about her: not that she did anything badly, but that the parts stayed small. She did not seem to mind. "This is gravy to me," she said of the whole late-starting business. "It's a wonderful way to spend the last third of my life." The cinema she worked in had a fixed idea of what a woman of sixty was for, and Haney filled it, precisely and without fuss, in films that mostly did not notice how well. Look for her in the reaction shots. She is usually the person the scene is actually about. ## Biography Anne Haney was an American character actress. Born Anne Ryan Thomas in Memphis, Tennessee, she earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She began her professional career in the 1970s after raising a family, appearing in local theatre and commercials before moving to California following her husband’s death in 1980. Haney appeared in around fifty film and television productions. She is known for her role as the social worker Mrs. Sellner in *Mrs. Doubtfire* (1993), Greta in *Liar Liar* (1997) and Mrs. Chapil in *The American President* (1995). She also guest-starred in episodes of *Star Trek: The Next Generation*, *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine*, *ER*, *Charmed* and *Curb Your Enthusiasm*. Haney died of heart failure on 26 May 2001 in Studio City, California, aged 67. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Liar Liar* (1997), Fi1m 68, as Greta — [page](https://film.one/film/liar-liar.md) - *Mrs. Doubtfire* (1993), Fi1m 74, as Mrs. Sellner — [page](https://film.one/film/mrs-doubtfire.md) - *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (1993), Fi1m 85, as Renora — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-deep-space-nine.md) ## Complete filmography (96) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Curb Your Enthusiasm* (2000), series, as Mary's Mother — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md) - *The Geena Davis Show* (2000), series, as Ruth Ryan - *Popular* (1999), series, as Nurse Gretchen - *Family Law* (1999), series, as Etta Black - *Movie Stars* (1999), series, as Francine Hardin - *The Out-of-Towners* (1999), as Woman in Bathroom - *Forces of Nature* (1999), as Emma - *Providence* (1999), series, as Mary Aliperti - *Psycho* (1998), as Mrs. Chambers - *Charmed* (1998), series, as Aunt Gail - *Little Girl Fly Away* (1998), as Ethel Brock - *The Lesser Evil* (1998), as Derek's Mother - *Any Day Now* (1998), series, Actor - *The Magnificent Seven* (1998), series, as Nettie Wells - *Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil* (1997), as Margaret Williams - *Dharma & Greg* (1997), series, as Mrs. Kirby - *Ally McBeal* (1997), series, as Anne Haney — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/ally-mcbeal.md) - *Changing Habits* (1997), as Sister Humiliata - *Leaving L.A.* (1997), series, as Martha Hayes - *Liar Liar* (1997), as Greta — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/liar-liar.md) - *Mother* (1996), as Helen - *The American President* (1995), as Mrs. Chapil - *Murder One* (1995), series, as Kendall, Melanie Kendall — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/murder-one.md) - *Star Struck* (1994), Actor - *ER* (1994), series, as Mrs. Packer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/er.md) - *Chicago Hope* (1994), series, as Dorothy Bass - *Mrs. Doubtfire* (1993), as Mrs. Sellner — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/mrs-doubtfire.md) - *George* (1993), series, Actor - *Boy Meets World* (1993), series, as Mrs. Nelson - *NYPD Blue* (1993), series, as Mrs. Reese — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/nypd-blue.md) - *Telling Secrets* (1993), as Grace Jefferson - *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (1993), series, as Renora — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-deep-space-nine.md) - *Condition: Critical* (1992), as Mrs. Yarkovich - *The Golden Palace* (1992), series, as Vivian - *In My Daughter's Name* (1992), as Mrs. Klafter - *Civil Wars* (1991), series, as Rosemary Halpin - *Plymouth* (1991), as Emily - *Jailbirds* (1991), as Haydee - *Northern Exposure* (1990), series, as Judge Elizabeth Percy — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/northern-exposure.md) - *K-9000* (1990), as Mrs. Wiffington - *Capital News* (1990), series, Actor - *Doogie Howser, M.D.* (1989), series, as Mrs. Moran - *Quantum Leap* (1989), series, as Cassy Thailer, Grace Beaumont - *Coach* (1989), series, as Emma - *Father Dowling Mysteries* (1989), series, as Mrs. Blanchard, Mr. Underwood's Housekeeper - *Elvis and Me* (1988), as Grandma Minnie Mae Presley - *Elvis and Me* (1988), series, as Grandma Minnie Mae Presley - *Cold Steel* (1987), as Anna Modine - *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), series, as Rishon Uxbridge — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-the-next-generation.md) - *Beauty and the Beast* (1987), series, as Tamara - *Tour of Duty* (1987), series, as Mrs. Griner - *Celebration Family* (1987), as Judge Gelson - *Roses Are for the Rich* (1987), series, as Aunt Molly - *The Christmas Gift* (1986), as Clara Huckle - *The Thanksgiving Promise* (1986), as Mrs. Sudsup - *Designing Women* (1986), series, as Aunt Phoebe Stillfield - *L.A. Law* (1986), series, as Judge Marilyn Travelini - *Blind Justice* (1986), as Jim's Mother - *Matlock* (1986), series, as Aunt Elsie, Nurse Jackson, Elizabeth Farrell - *The Best of Times* (1986), as Marcy - *The Twilight Zone* (1985), series, Actor - *Lime Street* (1985), series, as Evelyn Camp - *The Golden Girls* (1985), series, as Bonnie — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-golden-girls.md) - *Half Nelson* (1985), as Maid - *The Bad Seed* (1985), as Alice Fern - *Malice in Wonderland* (1985), as Dema's Secretary - *The Night They Saved Christmas* (1984), as Hedda - *Impulse* (1984), as Mrs. Piersall - *P.O.P.* (1984), as Lily - *The Osterman Weekend* (1983), as Honeymoon Bride - *Scarecrow and Mrs. King* (1983), series, as Mrs. Dunlap - *AfterMASH* (1983), series, as Operator, The Receptionist, Gladys - *The Invisible Woman* (1983), as Mrs. Van Dam - *Mama's Family* (1983), series, Actor - *Independence Day* (1983), as Rose Parker - *Frances* (1982), as Coiffeur - *Missing Children: A Mother's Story* (1982), as Mrs. Sims - *St. Elsewhere* (1982), series, as Mrs. Clifford — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/st-elsewhere.md) - *Newhart* (1982), series, as Pearl Reskoff - *Cheers* (1982), series, as Miss Gilder — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/cheers.md) - *Family Ties* (1982), series, as Mrs. Matthews - *The Adventures of Pollyanna* (1982), as Miss Louella Beat - *Some Kind of Hero* (1982), as Monica Lewis - *Making Love* (1982), as Lila - *Marian Rose White* (1982), as Sister Agatha - *The Children Nobody Wanted* (1981), as Mrs. Lightheart - *When the Circus Came to Town* (1981), as Blossom - *Hill Street Blues* (1981), series, as Dorie Fitzgerald, Mrs. Schechter — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/hill-street-blues.md) - *The Mating Season* (1980), as Elizabeth - *Bosom Buddies* (1980), series, as Mrs. Le Daux - *Hopscotch* (1980), as Mrs. Myerson - *The Gold Bug* (1980), as Jessica Bessop - *Summer of My German Soldier* (1978), as Mrs. Benn - *Quincy, M.E.* (1976), series, as Alice - *Columbo* (1971), series, as Louise — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/columbo.md) - *The Wonderful World of Disney* (1954), series, as Mrs. Sudsup, Miss Louella Beat ## Gallery - ![Anne Haney](https://film.one/media/person/83177/gallery-0c52528735fe.jpg) Anne Haney — Image via TMDB - ![Anne Haney](https://film.one/media/person/83177/gallery-803dfd75b377.jpg) Anne Haney — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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