Chloe Webb


Chloe Webb is an American actress, best known for her roles in the films Sid and Nancy, The Belly of an Architect, Twins, and Heart Condition. She also was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her role as Laurette Barber in the ABC drama series China Beach, and had a recurring role as Monica Gallagher on the Showtime comedy-drama Shameless.

Early life

Webb was born June 25, 1956, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. She spent her youth in various locations on the East Coast, depending on where her father, a bridge and road designer, was employed, though she was primarily raised in Syracuse, New York, where she attended Bishop Grimes High School. At age sixteen, she enrolled at The Boston Conservatory and later, Berklee College of Music. Originally, she pursued her passion for singing by singing in bars despite being underaged; she realized that even though she greatly enjoyed singing, she was better at acting.

Career

In April 1982, Webb joined Forbidden Broadway, an Off-Broadway revue parodying musical theatre, particularly Broadway musicals. Four years later, she made her film debut in Alex Cox's Sid & Nancy ; she portrayed Nancy Spungen, the mentally ill, heroin-addicted girlfriend of punk rock singer Sid Vicious. Her performance garnered best actress awards from the National Society of Film Critics, the Boston Film Critics and the San Francisco Film Critics.
She also appeared as Brian Dennehy's estranged socialite girlfriend in Peter Greenaway's 1987 drama film The Belly of an Architect and as Laurette, a young woman from Paoli, Pennsylvania who dreams of becoming a successful singer, in ABC's drama television series China Beach. Other roles include the eccentric girlfriend of Danny DeVito's character in the Ivan Reitman comedy Twins, and a cameo as a woman convinced that she had been abducted by aliens in Ghostbusters II. Between roles in motion pictures and television series, Webb frequently appeared in several Los Angeles based stage productions: The House of Blue Leaves, for which she won a Drama-Logue Award, and The Model Apartment; her performance earned her a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and another Drama-Logue Award.
Webb co-starred alongside Denzel Washington and Bob Hoskins in Heart Condition. In 1991, she played a hairdresser in Queens Logic and a woman with a developmental disability who wins the lottery in ABC's made-for-TV film Lucky Day.
Other roles included the eccentric Mona Ramsey in the first season of Armistead Maupin miniseries Tales of the City.
Webb has appeared on several television series: CBS's Judging Amy, FOX's House, CBS's Two and a Half Men, NBC's Medium, and CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Webb reunited with Cox in 2009 for his film Repo Chick; she played Sister Duncan.
In Showtime's comedy-drama TV series Shameless, Webb portrayed Monica Gallagher, the estranged and unstable wife of William H. Macy's character. The performance earned her a nomination for Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series.

Partial filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1983Remington SteeleSecretaryEpisode: "Steele Away with Me: Part 1"
1986MaryActressEpisode: "Steppin' Out with Mary Brenner"
1986Sid and NancyNancy SpungenNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress
Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
1987The Belly of an ArchitectLouisa Kracklite
1988China BeachLaurette Barber7 episodes
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
1988TwinsLinda Mason
1989Ghostbusters IIElaine
1990Heart ConditionCrystal Gerrity
1991Queens LogicPatricia
1991Lucky DayAllisonTV movie
1993Twenty BucksConvenience Store Clerk
1993Silent CriesDinki Denk
1993Heart and SoulsPatient in Psychiatric Ward
1993A Dangerous WomanBirdy
1993Armistead Maupin's Tales of the CityMona RamseyTV miniseries
1994Love AffairTina Wilson
1997She's So Lovely Nancy Swearingen
1998The Newton BoysAvis Glasscock
1998Practical MagicCarla
1999Hey Arnold!Candy MaldonadoEpisode: "Dino Checks Out"
2001The Ballad of Lucy WhippleSophieTV movie
2003Judging AmyMrs. GoodmanEpisode: "Tricks of the Trade"
2005HouseCoraEpisode: "DNR"
2005Two and a Half MenTrudyEpisode: "That Old Hose Bag Is My Mother"
2005MediumMargaret FolsomEpisode: "Time Out of Mind"
2008CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationEvelyn PolychronopolousEpisode: "The Theory of Everything"
2009Repo ChickSister Duncan
2011–2016ShamelessMonica Gallagher9 episodes
Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series
2019Law & Order: Special Victims UnitRowan MauerEpisode: S:20, E:17, "Missing"
2020Wish Upon a UnicornRose-