
Brenda Ballard
Known For & Full Filmography25 Titles

Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Fran
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.

Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes • as Food Court Patron
The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.

Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes • as Stephanie
In this musical comedy, optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing the high school's glee club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential as they strive to outshine their singing competition while navigating the cruel halls of McKinley High.

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes • as Woman at Park
That flashy girl from Flushing with the heart of an angel (and the voice of a slighty more nasal angel). The comic misadventures of the sweet and sassy Fran Fine, her sophisticated employer, Broadway producer Mr. Sheffield, his boisterous brood and his wisecracking staff.

Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes • as Rose
In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Old Woman
Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in Christy's life and eager to share passive-aggressive insights into her daughter's many mistakes.

Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Older Woman
Georgie and Mandy raise their young family in Texas while navigating the challenges of adulthood, parenting, and marriage.

Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes • as Gate Attendant
The emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah, a New York City schoolteacher and budding novelist with a wife of twenty years and four children and Alison, a young waitress and wife from Montauk at the end of Long Island, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy.

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Computer Customer
A hilarious workplace comedy about a unique family of employees at a super-sized mega store. From the bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans to the clueless summer hires and the in-it-for-life managers, together they hilariously tackle the day-to-day grind of rabid bargain hunters, riot-causing sales and nap-worthy training sessions.

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Marnie
A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things American and an immigrant mother often bewildered by white culture.

Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Mrs. Morton
An eclectic group of underfunded yet dedicated doctors and nurses navigates caring for patients — and each other — while keeping it all together at an Oregon hospital.

Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Miss Phoebe
A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.

Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes • as Old Lady #2
The League is an American sitcom and semi-improvised comedy about a about a fantasy football league and its members and their everyday lives.

Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes • as Gladys
New Yorker Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to work at a small practice in Bluebell, Alabama.

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Miriam Bickle
Comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they're considering having another baby. Their parents are Joan the family's adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with it - and John, the gregarious patriarch who's searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. As the family's lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life's all about.

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Court Reporter
Dr. Ken is a brilliant physician with no bedside manner. He is always trying to be a good doctor, as well as a good husband and dad to his two kids. However, these good intentions have a way of driving everyone crazy at both work and at home. Luckily, his therapist wife Allison is just the right partner to keep things sane.

Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Sylvia
Ten years after signing off of one of TV's most iconic shows, Carly, Spencer, and Freddie are back, navigating the next chapter of their lives, facing the uncertainties of life in their twenties.

Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Pearl
Emet is the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter. Okay, she's not perfect. In fact, she's just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure, she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband, or when she pretends not to know her kids when they misbehave in public, or when she uses her staff to help solve personal problems. But that's okay, right? Nobody can have it all and do it perfectly.

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as Irate Customer #1
A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Hostage's Wife
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Client
When Grace comes to live with her daughter and son-in-law, she is eager to find a way to be useful in the community. She loves to read stories to children, and decides to read one on public access television. The response is so strong that a large company hears about it and offers her a television series. Her life becomes complicated as she is forced to make some serious decisions. Through it all, Grace is able to help a young mother realize that time is the most valuable gift she could give to her daughter.

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Green
Nick Anderson, Kevin Daniels, and Tracey Green do everything together. They are the best of friends, and yet they couldn't be more different. Neighbors from adolescence, they finish each other's thoughts and sentences, joys and pains, happiness and tears. Using Nick's house as their own members only clubhouse, they escape into their own world of contentment. Yet the inevitable intrusion of others tests their stability in ways never imagined.

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Lewis
A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, winds up working in a halfway house full of mildly brain-damaged patients and receives help from those she helps.

Movie - 1999, 2h 15m • as Uncle Ernie VanderWal
Leed VanderWal, a 25-year-old Dutch tourist, craves bigger, better, and faster opportunities. However, his job at Windmill Island lacks these, until wealthy summer cottager Chrissy Trutt introduces him to the world.