Hope Davis


Hope Davis is a celebrated actress of stage, television and screen. She played Hillary Clinton in the HBO Films Presentation of The Special Relationship and was last seen on TV in the second season of "In Treatment" in the role of Mia, which earned her an Emmy® nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Most recently Davis received a Tony nomination for the 2009 Tony Award-winning play "God of Carnage," opposite James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden and Jeff Daniels. Her most recent film credits include "Genova," "Synecdoche, New York," "The Hoax," "The Nines," "Charlie Bartlett" and "Driving Lessons." She was also part of an ensemble cast of the series "Six Degrees."

In 2003, Davis was named Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle for her work in two of the year's most critically acclaimed independent features: "The Secret Lives of Dentists" and the Oscar®-nominated HBO Films production "American Splendor," for which she also received a Golden Globe nomination. The film was the LA Film Critics' Best Picture of 2003 and also captured the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic Competition at Sundance, the Best Film Un Certain Regard in Cannes and the Grand Jury Prize in Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival.

Davis' other film credits include a trio of independent hits - "The Daytrippers," "The Myth of Fingerprints" and "Next Stop Wonderland" - as well as "Infamous," "The Matador," "The Weatherman," "Proof," "Hearts in Atlantis," "Final," "Joe Gould's Secret," "The Imposters," "Arlington Road," "Mumford" and "About Schmidt," which won the Los Angeles Film Critics' Best Picture of 2002 award.

Davis' theatre credits include "Camino Real" at the famed Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Lincoln Center productions of "Spinning into Butter," "Two Shakespearean Actors" and "Ivanov." She has also appeared in numerous off-Broadway plays, including "Pterodactyls," "The Food Chain," "The Iceman Cometh" and David Mamet's "Speed the Plow," directed by Joel Schumacher.