Beth Littleford | |
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Born | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. | July 17, 1968
Occupation(s) | Actress, comedian, television personality |
Years active | 1996–present |
Spouse | Rob Fox (m. 1998;div. 2015) |
Children | 2 [lower-alpha 1] |
Elizabeth Littleford (born July 17, 1968) [1] is an American actress, comedian and television personality. She is best known as one of the original correspondents on The Daily Show on Comedy Central from 1996 to 2000. Littleford has also appeared in the shows I'm in the Band and Dog with a Blog .
Littleford was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the daughter of Jackie, a professor, and Philip O. Littleford, a cardiologist and inventor. She grew up in Winter Park, Florida. Her father and brother died when she was sixteen in a pontoon plane accident during an Alaskan fishing trip. [2] [3] A National Merit Scholarship Program finalist in high school, she attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania for three years before taking up acting classes at New York University; she eventually graduated from The New School for Social Research. [2] [4]
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Early in her acting career, Littleford worked in improvisational theatre with the Chicago City Limits group, founded a sketch comedy troupe, and wrote her own one-woman show, This Is Where I Get Off, which she performed with the Circle Repertory Company. [2] [5] Littleford is perhaps most famous for her pioneering role as one of the original female correspondents on The Daily Show . Littleford's segments on the show were satirical celebrity interviews in the style of Barbara Walters, and used soft focus cinematography for comic effect, in that almost nothing in the interviews were visually discernable to the viewer. [6] Her time on the Daily Show brought her to the attention of actor/producer Michael J. Fox. Fox was the lead and executive producer of the Sitcom Spin City . Two years after she began on The Daily Show, she secured a recurring part of Deirdre West on Fox's show, Spin City. [7] She has guest-starred on numerous television programs beginning in the late 1990s: The West Wing , Family Guy , and Frasier . Littleford was also a celebrity commentator on VH1's I Love the 80s Strikes Back in 2003, I Love the 90s in 2004, I Love the 90s: Part Deux in 2005, I Love the New Millennium, and The Great Debate in 2009.
She was the female lead on the short-lived Fox series Method and Red , and also starred as Ben Tennyson's mother Sandra in Ben 10: Race Against Time , and reprised the role in the Ben 10: Alien Force episode 20 and again in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien . She has appeared in TV commercials for Laughing Cow cheese, Cascade, and a[ which? ] hotel chain.
Littleford starred in the Disney XD original show I'm in the Band , the 2010 Disney Channel film Starstruck , and played Suzanne Berger on MTV's The Hard Times of RJ Berger, Dana on ABC's Desperate Housewives, and the realtor on The Fosters. More recently, she had a starring role as Ellen Jennings in the Disney Channel original series Dog with a Blog and a guest appearance on Dead to Me on Netflix.
In 2015, Littleford received a Peabody Award for her groundbreaking work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 1996 to 2000 as the show's "Original Female Correspondent."
In 2021, Littleford was in the film Senior Moment starring William Shatner, Jean Smart and Christopher Lloyd.
Littleford lives in Los Angeles. She was married to Rob Fox, a director and producer who worked alongside her on The Daily Show, from 1998 to 2015; they had a son (b. 2005) and an adopted daughter (b. 2012). Fox died in 2017. [4] [8] [9] [10]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1998 | A Cool, Dry Place | Suzanne | |
1999 | The 24 Hour Woman | Lynn Shapiro | |
Mystery, Alaska | Janice Pettiboe | ||
Picture This | Patty | ||
2008 | Drillbit Taylor | Barbara Drennan | |
2009 | Veiled | Marie | Short |
2011 | Crazy, Stupid, Love | Claire | |
2012 | Music High | Lucy Bates | |
Kidnap Party | Alison Slater | ||
2013 | It's Not You, It's Me | Sandy | |
Movie 43 | Mrs. Cutler | ||
2017 | Random Tropical Paradise | Martha Crandall | |
2018 | I'll Be Next Door for Christmas | Fran | Christmas comedy film written and directed by David Jay Willis |
2021 | Senior Moment | Tess Woodson | Feature Film - Released theatrically and on demand |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1996–2000 | The Daily Show | Herself | Original Female Correspondent |
1998–2000 | Spin City | Deirdre West | Recurring role |
2001 | Boston Public | Marcia Fennel | Episode: "Chapter 24" |
2002 | The West Wing | WKZN Philadelphia Anchor Leslie | Episode: "The U.S. Poet Laureate" |
Still Standing | Kristy Duncan | Episode: "Still in School" | |
What I Like About You | Susan | Episode: "Copy That" | |
Andy Richter Controls the Universe | Reggie Meadows | Episode: "The Show Might Go On" | |
2002–03 | Greetings from Tucson | Marna | 2 episodes |
Life with Bonnie | Dr. 'Mrs.' Casey | 2 episodes | |
2003 | The Big Wide World of Carl Laemke | Laurie Laemke | TV film |
2003–04 | One on One | Geraldine Murphy | Recurring role |
2004 | Method & Red | Nancy Blaford | Main role |
Frasier | Creationism Date | Episode: "Match Game" (season 11) | |
2005 | Joey | Carla | Episode: "Joey and the Premiere" |
2006 | Rodney | Amy O'Brien | Episode: "Rodney Gets a Leg Up" |
Love, Inc. | Charlene | Episode: "Anything But Love" | |
2006–12 | Family Guy | Various (voice) | Guest role |
2007 | Without a Trace | Diane Neese | Episode: "Two of Us" |
Ben 10: Race Against Time | Sandra Tennyson | TV film | |
2008 | Samantha Who? | Audrey Rhodes | Episode: "The Girlfriend" |
Ben 10: Alien Force | Sandra Tennyson (voice) | Episode: "Grounded" | |
2009 | Take 2 | Amy | TV film |
2009–10 | Rules of Engagement | Laura | 3 episodes |
2009–11 | I'm in the Band | Beth Campbell | Recurring role |
2010 | StarStruck | Barbara Olson | TV film |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Nurse Mona | Episode: "Field Mice" | |
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien | Sandra Tennyson (voice) | Episode: "Hit 'Em Where They Live" | |
The New Adventures of Old Christine | Tony Kershaw | Episode: "Get Smarter" | |
Neighbors from Hell | Various (voice) | Recurring role | |
CSI: Miami | Elena Manus | Episode: "Sleepless in Miami" | |
2010–11 | The Hard Times of RJ Berger | Suzanne Berger | Recurring role |
2010–13 | The Cleveland Show | Various (voice) | Guest role |
2011 | Desperate Housewives | Dana | 2 episodes |
2012 | Melissa & Joey | Suzanne Haber | Episode: "Good to Go" |
Mad | Tasha / Various (voice) | 1 episode | |
2012–15 | Dog with a Blog | Ellen Jennings | Main role |
2013 | The Mindy Project | Helen | Episode: "Mindy's Minute" |
2013–14 | Ben 10: Omniverse | Sandra Tennyson | Voice, 3 episodes |
2016 | Mistresses | Lindsay Lehman | Episode: "Under Pressure" |
Unwanted Guest | Anna Roberts | TV film | |
2016–17 | The Fosters | Realtor | 3 episodes |
2017 | 2 Broke Girls | Bonnie | Episode: "And the Stalking Dead" |
Liberty Crossing | Special Agent Margaret Smith | Episode: "Comfort Zones" | |
2018 | My Dead Ex | Laurel | Recurring |
2019 | Dead to Me | Doug's Wife | Episode: "I Can Handle It" |
Home Is Where the Killer Is | Patricia Wade | TV film | |
2020–21 | Love, Victor | Sarah | Hulu Original Series |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2018 | Gossip | Rockin' Robin | 12 episodes |
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