Actress filmography Life as a House (2001) .... Colleen, Neighbor & brief girlfriend of George & mother of Alyssa Nobody's Baby (2001) .... Estelle Sunshine State (2001) Absolute Zero (2000) .... Dr. Helen Nagle Trumpet of the Swan, The (2000) (voice) .... Mother Wish You Were Dead (2000) .... Sally Rider Picnic (2000) (TV) .... Rosemary Sydney Noah's Ark (1999) (TV) .... Naamah Arche Noah - Das größte Abenteuer der Menschheit (1999) (TV) (Germany) About Sarah (1998) (TV) .... Sarah "Ink" (1996) TV Series .... Kate Montgomery Gulliver's Travels (1996) (TV) .... Mary Gulliver Nixon (1995) .... Hannah Nixon Powder (1995) .... Jessie Caldwell Grass Harp, The (1995) .... Sister Ida My Family (1995) .... Gloria Cafe con leche (1995) East L.A. (1995) (UK: video title) My Family, Mi Familia (1995) Clifford (1994) .... Sarah Davis Pontiac Moon (1994) .... Katherine Bellamy It Runs in the Family (1994) .... Mom My Summer Story (1994) "Century of Women, A" (1994) (mini) TV Series (voice) Philadelphia (1993) .... Belinda Conine What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) .... Betty Carver Butcher's Wife, The (1991) .... Stella "Back to the Future" (1991) TV Series (voice) .... Clara Clayton Brown "Back to the Future: The Animated Series" (1991) Long Walk Home, The (1990) (voice) .... Narrator Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy, The (1990) (TV) .... Herself Back to the Future Part III (1990) .... Clara Clayton Miss Firecracker (1989) .... Elain Rutledge Parenthood (1989) .... Karen Buckman Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank, The (1988) (TV) .... Miep Gies End of the Line (1987) .... Rose Whales of August, The (1987) .... Young Sarah Dead of Winter (1987) .... Julie Rose/Katie McGovern/Evelyn One Magic Christmas (1985) .... Ginny Grainger "Tender Is the Night" (1985) (mini) TV Series .... Nicole Warren Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1984) .... Herself Cross Creek (1983) .... Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Faerie Tale Theatre: Little Red Riding Hood (1983) (TV) .... Little Red Riding Hood Romantic Comedy (1983) .... Phoebe "Faerie Tale Theater" (1982) TV Series .... Red Riding Hood "Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre" (1982) (USA) Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, A (1982) .... Adrian Ragtime (1981) .... Mother Melvin and Howard (1980) .... Lynda Dummar Time After Time (1979) .... Amy Robbins Goin' South (1978) .... Julia Tate