Margo Martindale

Margo Martindale

Actor (b. 1951)
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The ThumbScore for Margo Martindale (68.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 26 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Margo's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

26
Movies
68.6%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Margo Martindale’s films lower than 76% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Orphan (Roku Channel) · Instant Family (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Pluto TV) · Dead Man Walking (Roku Channel, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) · August: Osage County (Philo, The CW, Fandango at Home, Prime Video (free), Xumo Play, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Marvin's Room (Kanopy, Hoopla) and 8 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Clint Eastwood (2)Alden Ehrenreich (2)Meryl Streep (2)Julia Roberts (2)Susan Sarandon (2)

Margo Martindale (born July 18, 1951) is an American film, stage, and television actress. In 2011, she won an Emmy Award for her role as Mags Bennett on Justified. She has played supporting roles in several films, including The Hours, Million Dollar Baby as Hilary Swank's character's mother, The Firm, Lorenzo's Oil, Marvin's Room, The Savages, and Paris, je t'aime. She was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in 2004. Margo Martindale was born July 18, 1951, in Jacksonville, Texas, to parents William Everett and Margaret (Pruitt) Martindale. In addition to owning and operating a lumber company in Jacksonville, her father was known as a champion dog handler in Texas and throughout the southern United States.

Margo was the youngest of three children and only daughter. Her oldest brother is professional golfer and golf course designer Billy Martindale. Middle child, brother Bobby Tim, died in 2004. Margo Martindale participated in golf, cheerleading and drama while in school and was crowned "Football Sweetheart" as well as "Miss Jacksonville High School 1969."  Following graduation from Jacksonville High School in 1969, Martindale attended Lon Morris College, then transferred to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. While at Michigan, she also did summer study at Harvard University, appearing onstage with future movie and TV stars Jonathan Frakes and Christopher Reeve. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margo Martindale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1951-07-18 in Jacksonville, Texas, USA.

On ThumbScore, Margo Martindale appears in 26 films with an average audience score of 68.6%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Margo Martindale movie, ranked by audience score

Lorenzo's Oil
Lorenzo's Oil
1992
👍 92%
Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby
2004
👍 91%
Orphan
Orphan
2009
👍 85%
Instant Family
Instant Family
2018
👍 84%
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
👍 84%
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Hannah Montana: The Movie
2009
👍 82%
Dead Man Walking
Dead Man Walking
1995
👍 82%
Secretariat
Secretariat
2010
👍 78%
August: Osage County
August: Osage County
2013
👍 75%
Cocaine Bear
Cocaine Bear
2023
👍 73%
Marvin's Room
Marvin's Room
1996
👍 71%
Mother's Day
Mother's Day
2016
👍 67%
Uncle Frank
Uncle Frank
2020
👍 67%
The Hollars
The Hollars
2016
👍 66%
Twilight
Twilight
1998
👍 66%
In Dreams
In Dreams
1999
👍 65%
Wedding Daze
Wedding Daze
2006
👍 65%
Wilson
Wilson
2017
👍 63%
Management
Management
2009
👍 61%
Blow the Man Down
Blow the Man Down
2019
👍 61%
It's All About Love
It's All About Love
2003
👍 59%
Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Creatures
2013
👍 57%
The Kitchen
The Kitchen
2019
👍 56%
Rocket Science
Rocket Science
2007
👍 53%
Win Win
Win Win
2011
👍 42%
The Twits
The Twits
2025
👍 38%