Biography
Tess Harper is an American actress. Born Tessie Jean Washam on 15 August 1950 in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, she attended Southwest Missouri State University and began her career in theatre productions, theme parks and commercials before moving into film.
Her feature debut was as Rosa Lee in Tender Mercies (1983), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crimes of the Heart (1986). Harper played Loretta Bell in No Country for Old Men (2007) and had a recurring role as Mrs Pinkman in the first three seasons of Breaking Bad (2008–2010), reprising the part in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). She shared a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for No Country for Old Men.
