Cast & creator
Gwen Van Dam
Best known for Modern Family, Shameless, Gilmore Girls
46
film credits
26
television credits
72
1970–2025 · acting roles
6.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (72)
Showing 72 of 72 credits
Modern Family
Grams
2009
Shameless
Erma
2011
Gilmore Girls
Mrs. Van Wyck
2000
Without a Trace
Emma
2002
ER
Etta
1994
Knots Landing
Sales Clerk
1979
New Girl
Docent
2011
The Orville
Grandmother
2017
T. J. Hooker
Woman Hostage
1982
Insecure
Old Lady
2016
Grace and Frankie
Marie
2015
The Incredible Hulk
Mayor Claire Murphy
1977
Moonlighting
Waitress
1985
The League
Margaret
2009
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Woman
1989
Angie Tribeca
Kindly Old Woman
2016
Workaholics
Cassidy
2011
Joey
Grandma
2004
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
Great Aunt Agnes
2012
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Mrs. Feldman
1987
Interior Chinatown
Hazel Carrey
2024
Wilfred
Patient #2
2011
Big Bad BeetleBorgs
Norma Desdoom
1996
Homecoming
Mrs. Trotter
2018
Burlesque
Curler Woman at Grundy Bus Stop
2010
Shadow Chasers
1985
The French Atlantic Affair
Barney's Wife
1979
Stir Crazy
Mrs. Beatty
1980
Still Waiting...
Senile Woman
2009
True Confessions
Mrs. Fazenda
1981
The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It
80 Year Old Woman
2010
Lassie: The New Beginning
Mrs. Waldrup
1978
Coming Home
Mrs. Harris
1978
Home
Nancy
2021
No Tears in Hell
Mother
2025
Teenage Seductress
Emily Nelson
1975
Diamond in the Rough
Elderly Lady
2022
Christmas at Mistletoe Manor
Hortense Pollard
2025
The Jayne Mansfield Story
Vivian
1980
Gideon's Trumpet
Mrs. Lawrence
1980
Legion of the Dead
Old Woman
2001
Terror Out of the Sky
Ms. Logan
1978
The Ladies Club
Woman No. 1
1986
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
Nurse
1982
Husbands
Gwen
1970
A Touch of Scandal
White Woman
1984
Second Thoughts
Matron
1983
The Best Little Girl in the World
O.R. Nurse
1981
Stand by Your Man
Mrs. Sims
1981
Dead Night
Crone
2018
Second-Hand Hearts
Waitress at Frankie's
1981Take My Daughters, Please
Margaret
1988
Mercy Christmas
2017
Long Lost Son
Travel Agent
2006
The Awakening of Candra
Mrs. Stern
1983
Sleepwalk
Lady at the House
2018
The Ugly Christmas Sweater
Edna
2017
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Matron
1981
Matters of Life and Death
Grandma Barbara
2007
Blood Star
Ma
2024
Me You Madness
Grandma Betty
2021
Joni
Nurse Pauline
1979
You're Doing Great
Elderly Woman
2024
Flexing with Monty
Granny
2010
Pinocchio
Madame Suburbia
1971
Big Boy Pants
Stella
2019
Help Wanted: Male
Dr. Quinn
1982
Fall of Hyperion
Elderly Woman
2008
Having Babies III
Molly
1978
Grandma
2019
Storm
Woman at Restaurant
2019
Good Mourning
Grandma Leanne
2020