Throughout her career Plimpton has appeared in many feature films including critically successful films Running on Empty ( 1988 ), Parenthood ( 1989 ), Eye of God ( 1997 ), The Sleepy Time Gal ( 2001 ), Hair High ( 2004 ) and Small Town Murder Songs ( 2011 ).

Plimpton has appeared in many television roles throughout her career.

In 1991, Plimpton appeared in the Robert De Niro film Stanley & Iris in a supporting role.

In 1992, Plimpton appeared as a lesbian terrorist in the independent film Inside Monkey Zetterland.

Plimpton also appeared that year as herself in the independent film My Life's in Turnaround, a movie about filmmakers trying to make a movie.

Plimpton became involved with The Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago where she appeared in Hedda Gabler ( 2001 ) among others.

Plimpton appeared in the 2008 Entertainment Weekly photo issue spread as one of " The Hardest Working Actors In Showbiz.

Plimpton also appeared in a number of feature films as an extra and in cameo appearances.

Plimpton appeared in the 1996 documentary When We Were Kings about the " Rumble in the Jungle " Ali-Foreman Championship fight opposite Norman Mailer crediting Muhammad Ali as a poet who composed the world's shortest poem: " Me-We ".

Plimpton also appeared in the closing credits of the 2006 film " Factory Girl ".

He served as Director of Research for the George Plimpton interview series, The Writer in Society, which appeared on the Channel 8 PBS affiliate in Houston, Texas, and featured interviews with Maya Angelou, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and Bobbie Anne Mason.

River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton on the red carpet at the 61st Academy Awards, 1989

Phoenix and Martha Plimpton on the red carpet at the 61st Academy Awards, 1989

Running on Empty is a 1988 film featuring River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, and Martha Plimpton, directed by Sidney Lumet, and was produced by Lorimar.

The film marked the second time Phoenix and Plimpton would play one another's romantic interest, having co-starred in the film The Mosquito Coast two years earlier.

" In her review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, " The courtship between Danny and Lorna is staged especially disarmingly, with Mr. Phoenix and Miss Plimpton conveying a sweet, serious and believably gradual attraction.

President Kennedy then turned to his friend Plimpton to tell Blanche, Plimpton's grandmother, that she was " interfering with state business.

Outside the literary world, Plimpton was famous for competing in professional sporting events and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.

The successful screenings continued in London, Germany, France, San Diego, Denver and Tempe, Arizona, but then the film essentially disappeared for nearly a decade until interest in Edie Sedgwick was sparked again by the best-selling book Edie: An American Biography by George Plimpton and Jean Stein in 1982.

Plimpton, then thirty-six, showed how unlikely it would be for an " average " person to succeed as a professional football player.

When White left to supervise Edison's European interests in 1903, he was replaced by William Markgraf ( 1903 – 1904 ), then Alex T. Moore ( 1904 – 1909 ), and Horace G. Plimpton ( 1909 – 1915 ).

The play was staged at Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theater starring actress Martha Plimpton, who is credited with bringing renewed modern interest to the play.

Plimpton, along with former decathlete Rafer Johnson, was credited with helping wrestle Sirhan Sirhan to the ground when Kennedy was assassinated following his victory in the 1968 California Democratic primary at the former Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Banks is credited with the sale of an ancient cuneiform tablet of great mathematical importance to the New York publisher George Arthur Plimpton.

The most ancient mathematical texts available are Plimpton 322 ( Babylonian mathematics c. 1900 BC ), the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus ( Egyptian mathematics c. 2000-1800 BC ) and the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus ( Egyptian mathematics c. 1890 BC ).

Honor rents the basement apartment to Sascha ( Rupert Everett ) and Sofie ( Martha Plimpton ), a gay man and lesbian posing as husband and wife while publishing an underground newsletter that outs closeted homosexuals in the entertainment industry.

Two articles by Richard Cummings, " An American in Paris " ( The American Conservative ) and " The Fiction of the State " ( Lobster ), disclose that the CIA provided funds for The Paris Review, using publisher Sadruddin Aga Khan's foundation as a conduit, and that Plimpton was an " agent of influence " for the CIA.

In an episode of The Simpsons —" I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can "— Lisa Simpson is tempted by the Siren-like representatives of the Seven Sisters ( and George Plimpton ), who offer a scholarship to the Sister school of her choice ( and a George Plimpton hot plate ) if she will throw a

Through her friend Stevie ( Martha Plimpton ), she meets Candy Darling ( Stephen Dorff ), who in turn introduces her to Andy Warhol.

The actress Martha Plimpton, a distant relative of his, served as associate producer on Plympton's animated feature Hair High ( 2004 ), doing much of the casting.

Carter's grandfather, John Truman Carter, Sr. ( portrayed by George Plimpton ), is the most disappointed by Carter's career choice, and though Carter respects him, he also resents him for that.

The artifact, now famously known as Plimpton 322 ( denoting that it is the 322nd item in the catalog ), has provided great insight into the Babylonian era math.

Julie ( Plimpton ), is still in high school, but is not interested in her education.

While he pushes Danny to audition for Juilliard, Danny also falls in love with Lorna ( Plimpton ), the teacher's teenage daughter.

Tina ( Martha Plimpton ), Pecker's fag hag older sister, is fired from her job emceeing go-go dancing at a gay bar because Pecker's edgy photographs chronicle the sex practices of the club's patrons.

Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson ( Peter O ' Brien ), mechanic Emma Plimpton ( Rebecca Gibney ), local policeman Sgt.

* Frederick T. Davis ( 1972 – 1973 ), Partner, Litigation Department, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Paris

She comes to realise that, like her father ( John Houseman ), she has been unfair, unkind and judgmental to many of the people closest to her: her brother Paul ( Harris Yulin ) and his fragile wife Lynn ( Frances Conroy ), her best friend from high school Claire ( Sandy Dennis ), her first husband Sam ( Philip Bosco ), and her stepdaughter Laura ( Martha Plimpton ).

Plimpton has garnered three consecutive Tony Award nominations: A Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2007 for her role in Top Girls.

Plimpton began her career in modeling, securing an early 1980s campaign for Calvin Klein, making an impression as a sophisticated but tomboyish little girl.

This would begin a trend of Plimpton being typecast in the role of a rebellious tomboy for several years, beginning with her critically lauded performance as the Reverend Spellgood ( Andre Gregory )' s daughter in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast, starring Harrison Ford.

Plimpton shaved her head bald to play a cancer patient in Zwei Frauen, and her reputation for playing rebellious teenagers secured her the role of the indignant teenage daughter ( who shaves her head ) of Dianne Wiest in Parenthood.

Plimpton received her second nomination for a Tony Award in 2008, Best Performance by a Featured Actress In a Play, for her work in Top Girls at the Biltmore Theater.

Plimpton says in the write-up about her " I went to jury duty the other day, and somebody said, ' You always play drug addicts!

" On July 14, 2011, Plimpton was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal as Virginia Chance in Raising Hope and submitted the episode " Say Cheese " on her behalf.

She is referenced in the Lawrence Arms song " Light Breathing ( Me and Martha Plimpton in a Fancy Elevator )," a song detailing the singer unexpectedly stepping into an elevator with her and being unable to overcome shyness to ask her out.

A November 6, 1971, cartoon in The New Yorker by Whitney Darrow, Jr. shows a cleaning lady on her hands and knees scrubbing an office floor while saying to another one: " I'd like to see George Plimpton do this sometime.

In a 1998 interview with journalist George Plimpton, Angelou discussed her writing process, and " the sometimes slippery notion of truth in nonfiction " and memoirs.