---
name: "Rebecca Pidgeon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rebecca-pidgeon"
fi1m_id: "rebecca-pidgeon"
imdb_id: "nm0682071"
tmdb_id: 27267
wikidata_id: "Q287572"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 October 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T11:23:36.292044+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."
---

# Rebecca Pidgeon

## Identity

Rebecca Pidgeon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rebecca-pidgeon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rebecca-pidgeon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0682071
- **TMDB ID:** 27267
- **Wikidata ID:** Q287572
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Pidgeon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q287572, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0682071/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27267

Actor. Born 10 October 1965 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 October 1965, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- **Active:** 1989–2018
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 76 (1), 2010s 53 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Pidgeon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q287572, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0682071/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27267

## Biography

Rebecca Pidgeon is an American-British actress and singer-songwriter. She was born on 10 October 1965 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, as a child. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Pidgeon began her career as lead singer of the folk-pop band Ruby Blue in the late 1980s before focusing on acting. Her early film role was as Young Lillian in *She's Been Away* (1989). She has appeared in several films directed by her husband David Mamet, including *Homicide* (1991), *The Spanish Prisoner* (1997), *The Winslow Boy* (1999), *State and Main* (2000) and *Heist* (2001). Other credits include *RED* (2010), *Bird Box* (2018) and *Euphoria* (2019).

Pidgeon has maintained a parallel recording career, releasing solo albums after leaving Ruby Blue. She married playwright and director David Mamet in 1991.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Bird Box* (2018), Fi1m 53, as Lydia — [page](https://film.one/film/bird-box.md)
- *She's Been Away* (1989), Fi1m 76, as Young Lillian — [page](https://film.one/film/shes-been-away.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Nell* (2024), Actor
- *Troublée* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *L'Étranger* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Euphoria* (2019), series, as Ms. Penzler — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/euphoria.md)
- *Bird Box* (2018), as Lydia — Fi1m 53, [page](https://film.one/film/bird-box.md)
- *Ape* (2017), as Faye
- *Allegiant* (2016), as Sarah
- *Two-Bit Waltz* (2014), as Anita
- *Phil Spector* (2013), as Dr. Fallon
- *Two Painters* (2010), as Announcer
- *RED* (2010), as Cynthia Wilkes
- *The Lodger* (2009), as Dr. Jessica Westmin
- *Cat City* (2008), as Victoria Compton
- *Redbelt* (2008), as Zena Frank
- *How to Be* (2008), as Mother
- *Jesse Stone: Sea Change* (2007), as Leeann Lewis
- *Provoked* (2007), as Miriam Taylor
- *Edmond* (2006), as Wife
- *The Unit* (2006), series, as Charlotte Ryan
- *In Justice* (2006), series, as Charlotte Conti
- *Shopgirl* (2005), as Christie Richards
- *The Shield* (2002), series, as Joanna Faulks — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-shield.md)
- *Heist* (2001), as Fran Moore
- *Catastrophe* (2001), as The Director's Assistant
- *State and Main* (2000), as Ann
- *The Winslow Boy* (1999), as Catherine Winslow
- *The Spanish Prisoner* (1997), as Susan Ricci
- *Oleanna* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *The Water Engine* (1992), as Connie
- *Uncle Vanya* (1991), as Sonya
- *Performance* (1991), series, as Sonya
- *Homicide* (1991), as Ms. Klein
- *She's Been Away* (1989), as Young Lillian — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/shes-been-away.md)
- *The Dawning* (1988), as Nancy Gulliver
- *Speed the Plow*, as Georgia Cornchuk-Stein

## Gallery

- ![Rebecca Pidgeon](https://film.one/media/person/3779280/gallery-ec6a395072a7.jpg) Rebecca Pidgeon — David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Rebecca_Pidgeon_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/1280px-Rebecca_Pidgeon_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rebecca Pidgeon performing live at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles CA on December 20th, 2013.](https://film.one/media/person/3779280/gallery-d2ab2ceaeaee.jpg) Rebecca Pidgeon performing live at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles CA on December 20th, 2013. — Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Rebecca_Pidgeon_12_20_2013_-4_%2811476480116%29.jpg/1280px-Rebecca_Pidgeon_12_20_2013_-4_%2811476480116%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rebecca Pidgeon performing live at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles CA on December 20th, 2013.](https://film.one/media/person/3779280/gallery-00957cf80b0d.jpg) Rebecca Pidgeon performing live at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles CA on December 20th, 2013. — Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Rebecca_Pidgeon_12_20_2013_-2_%2811476390335%29.jpg/1280px-Rebecca_Pidgeon_12_20_2013_-2_%2811476390335%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rebecca Pidgeon performing live at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles CA on December 20th, 2013.](https://film.one/media/person/3779280/gallery-4f32dc0b47f7.jpg) Rebecca Pidgeon performing live at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles CA on December 20th, 2013. — Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Rebecca_Pidgeon_12_20_2013_-7_%2811476378594%29.jpg/1280px-Rebecca_Pidgeon_12_20_2013_-7_%2811476378594%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rebecca Pidgeon performing live at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles CA on December 20th, 2013.](https://film.one/media/person/3779280/gallery-f3e047f412a9.jpg) Rebecca Pidgeon performing live at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles CA on December 20th, 2013. — Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Rebecca_Pidgeon_12_20_2013_-1_%2811476531553%29.jpg/1280px-Rebecca_Pidgeon_12_20_2013_-1_%2811476531553%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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