at the following locations: UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television
Bio Conchata Ferrell joins the 2009 faculty of our summer program as the head of our Sitcom Acting workshop.
A brilliant actress Conchata made her theatrical debut in the New York Off-Broadway scene in the 1970s. She is a founding member of New York's Circle Repertory Theater, and has performed in such productions as Picnic and The Sea Horse , a performance which earned her a Drama Desk Award, an OBIE and the Theater World Award for the Most Promising Newcomer. Conchata was in the original cast of Lanford Wilson's Hot L Baltimore , the award-winning Off-Broadway production which legendary producer Norman Lear later produced as a series for ABC-TV with her recreating her starring role. This led to a succession of roles in numerous TV-movies, many theatrical films, several TV series and countless guest spots.
She appeared in Sidney Lumet's Network and was the lead opposite Rip Torn in Richard Pearce's small-scale, beautifully acted gem about rural life, Heartland . Movie fans will also remember her appearing opposite then newcomer Julia Roberts in the ensemble comedy romance Mystic Pizza . A superb actress Conchata appeared in Edward Scissorhands , True Romance , Heaven and Earth , My Fellow Americans , Touch Erin Brockovich , Crime + Punishment in Suburbia , K-Pax , Mr. Deeds and the wonderful mockumentary Surviving Eden working with such directors as Oliver Stone, Sydney Lumet and Tim Burton. Her television credits are many including the Stranger Inside and Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy and Isabelle.
Conchata appeared in the highly successful BBC miniseries The Buccaneers . Among Cochata's many spots as a TV primetime series regular are roles on the popular seriocomic road adventure B.J and the Bear and L.A. Law , for which she received an Emmy Award nomination. She was in the series Hearts Afire for CBS, the ABC sitcoms Townies and Teen Angel . Conchata Ferrell was a guest star on several popular television series, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Touched by an Angel, JAG, Friends, Popular, ER, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Becker and Judging Amy, and she appeared on the short-lived drama Push Nevada . And of course for the past five years she plays the role of Berta, Charlie Sheen's sardonic housekeeper on the Emmy winning sitcom Two and a Half Men.
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Conchata Ferrell
