Acting credits
43
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Paula Prentiss
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
1.1
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Movies: 33Series: 11Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 33644
IMDb ID: nm0696038
Known for: Acting
Born: March 4, 1938
Age: 87
Place of birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1948 - 2025
Years active: 78
Average TMDB rating: 6.44
Wikidata: Q271458
Also known as
Paula Ragusa
Other jobs
Thanks (1)
Biography
Paula Prentiss (born March 4, 1938) is an American actress. She is best known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are (1960), What's New Pussycat? (1965), Catch-22 (1970), The Parallax View (1974), and The Stepford Wives (1975). From 1967 to 1968, Prentiss co-starred with her husband Richard Benjamin in the CBS sitcom He & She, for which she received a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Paula Prentiss.
SEGAL
as Self
2025 Movie
5.0
Ida Western Exile
Thanks
2017 Movie
4.6
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
as Iris Blum
2016 Movie
4.4
Hard Four
as Sweet Cherrie
2007 Movie
6.5
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
as Self
2002 Movie
6.0
The Stepford Life
as Herself
2001 Movie
7.2
Mrs. Winterbourne
as Nurse Allmeyer (uncredited)
1996 Movie
7.0
M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
as Lynne Wiley
1983 Movie
7.0
Packin' It In
as Dianne Webber
1983 Movie
5.1
Saturday the 14th
as Mary
1981 Movie
6.1
Buddy Buddy
as Celia Clooney
1981 Movie
4.8
The Black Marble
as Sgt. Natalie Zimmerman
1980 Movie
4.2
Friendships, Secrets and Lies
as Sandy
1979 Movie
4.0
Having Babies II
as Trish Canfield
1977 Movie
4.0
No Room to Run
as Terry McKenna
1977 Movie
6.7
The Stepford Wives
as Bobbie Markowe
1975 Movie
6.8
The Parallax View
as Lee Carter
1974 Movie
6.3
Crazy Joe
as Anne
1974 Movie
The Couple Takes a Wife
as Barbara Hamilton
1972 Movie
5.5
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
as Bobbi Michele
1972 Movie
5.2
Born to Win
as Veronica
1971 Movie
4.6
Move
as Dolly
1970 Movie
6.6
Catch-22
as Nurse Duckett
1970 Movie
6.0
What's New Pussycat?
as Liz Bien
1965 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Paula Prentiss.
6.7
Burke's Law
as Carla Martinet • 1 eps
1994 Series
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Leonora Holt • 1 eps
1984 Series
Top of the Hill
as Norma Ellsworth Cully • 2 eps
1980 Series
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host • 1 eps
1975 Series
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1968 Series
4.5
He & She
as Paula Hollister • 26 eps
1967 Series
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self • 3 eps
1962 Series
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
as Soap model (uncredited) • 1 eps
1958 Series
7.1
The Oscars
as Self • 1 eps
1953 Series
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
as Self • 1 eps
1950 Series
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self • 1 eps
1948 Series