Morgan Fairchild
Known for: Acting
Born: February 3, 1950
Place of birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
Morgan Fairchild (born Patsy Ann McClenny; February 3, 1950) is an American actress. She achieved prominence during the late 1970s and early 1980s with continuing roles in several television series, in which she usually conveyed a glamorous image. Fairchild began her career in the CBS daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Jennifer Pace from 1973 to 1977. In 1978 she appeared on the primetime soap opera Dallas as the first actress to portray Jenna Wade, before taking a lead role in the NBC series Flamingo Road in 1980 (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama). In 1984, she co-starred in ABC's short-lived primetime soap Paper Dolls, and then appeared in Falcon Crest as attorney Jordan Roberts from 1985 to 1986. Fairchild has also performed in theater and played guest roles in television comedies, including Murphy Brown (for which she was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series), Roseanne,Cybill, and Friends. She is a board member of SAG-AFTRA.
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Filmography
99 movies · 78 TV shows, newest first
7.8
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy
2025
3.7
Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story
2023
7.3
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
2023
4.5
The Nana Project
2023
NR
Commitment to Life
2023
6.9
Rugrats
2021
5.7
A Date by Christmas Eve
2019
6.9
All Good Things
2019
7.4
Too Old to Die Young
2019NR
The Very Very Best of the 70s
2019
5.6
My Perfect Romance
2018
5.6
Scales
2017
NR
You're Gonna Miss Me
2017
5.1
A Christmas in Vermont
2016
9.7
The Encounter
2016
3.8
Bikini Model Academy
2015
5.3
Sam
2015
5.7
Wiener Dog Internationals
2015
5.7
Christian Mingle
2014
5.6
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
6.3
Perfect on Paper
2014
4.0
Dark Power
2013
5.0
Wiener Dog Nationals
2013
5.9
American Horror House
2012
6.2
A Perfect Ending
2012
7.0
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
2011
7.5
Revenge
2011
4.1
Boy Toy
2011
5.3
eCupid
2011
5.9
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2011
7.2
Hot in Cleveland
2010
6.6
Worst Cooks in America
2010
3.3
Life's a Beach
2010
5.8
The Slammin' Salmon
2009
7.3
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
NR
The Sno Cone Stand Inc
2008
4.6
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
6.6
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
7.7
Chuck
2007
5.6
The Initiation of Sarah
2006
6.6
Men in Trees
2006
10.0
Fashion House
2006
5.9
Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery
2006
7.6
My Name Is Earl
2005
8.2
Bones
200510.0
He's a Lady
2004
5.8
Arizona Summer
2004
4.7
Knuckle Sandwich
2004
7.5
Two and a Half Men
2003
7.2
Nip/Tuck
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
6.7
I Was a Teenage Faust
2002
6.0
That '80s Show
2002
4.0
Teddy Bears' Picnic
2001
7.7
Peril
2001
5.1
Held for Ransom
20004.7
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
2000
7.0
Unshackled
2000
5.9
Nice Guys Sleep Alone
1999
7.7
Roswell
1999
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
6.7
Providence
1999
7.3
The New Addams Family
1998
5.2
Holy Man
1998
5.3
V.I.P.
1998
7.9
That '70s Show
1998
7.4
So Graham Norton
1998
5.0
Shattered Illusions
1998
6.4
Dharma & Greg
19978.0
Head over Heels
1997
4.3
The View
1997
3.4
Bimbo Movie Bash
1997
7.0
The Angry Beavers
1997
6.6
Just Shoot Me!
19974.0
Moment of Truth: Into the Arms of Danger
1997NR
Teenage Confidential
1996NR
Sex, Drugs and Consequences
1996
6.4
7th Heaven
1996
4.1
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
5.0
Star Command
1996
5.1
Dead Man's Island
1996
4.8
Criminal Hearts
1996
2.9
Venus Rising
1995
5.7
The City
1995
4.4
The Miracle of Medjugorje
1995
6.5
The Naked Truth
1995
5.9
Cybill
1995
8.4
Friends
1994
7.2
Touched by an Angel
1994
10.0
Robin's Hoods
1994
4.2
Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000
1994
8.0
Das Paradies am Ende der Berge
1994
6.5
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994
4.1
Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III
1994
6.8
Burke's Law
1994
9.0
The Legacy of Malthus
1994
7.1
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
6.2
Freaked
1993
4.6
Based on an Untrue Story
1993
6.9
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993
7.2
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993
5.4
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
1991
10.0
Writer's Block
1991
7.4
Home Improvement
1991
8.0
Even Angels Fall
1991
5.0
Menu for Murder
1990
5.1
Mob Boss
1990
6.0
How to Murder a Millionaire
1990
4.3
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
7.2
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
1990
8.0
The Simpsons
1989
5.2
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
1989
4.8
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
1989
6.5
Murphy Brown
1988
4.7
Midnight Cop
1988
6.8
Roseanne
1988
5.9
Empty Nest
1988
5.0
Street of Dreams
1988
9.0
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
1988
8.0
Disney's Magic in the Magic Kingdom
1988
5.5
Deadly Illusion
1987
7.3
Sleeping Beauty
1987
6.0
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
4.4
Campus Man
1987
5.6
Red Headed Stranger
1986
7.5
North and South
1985
6.5
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985
6.8
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
7.2
Rodney Dangerfield: Exposed!
1985
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
6.0
Paper Dolls
1984
6.8
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
1984
6.3
Time Bomb
1984
NR
The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team
1984
1.0
Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 5
1983
10.0
Honeyboy
1982
6.8
Hotel
1982
5.8
Night of 100 Stars
19827.0
The Billy Crystal Comedy Hour
1982
5.8
The Seduction
1982
9.0
Magic with the Stars
1982
5.5
Falcon Crest
1981
6.7
Simon & Simon
1981
4.3
Entertainment Tonight
1981
3.5
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
1981
6.0
Concrete Cowboys
1981
6.3
Flamingo Road
1981
7.3
Magnum, P.I.
1980
10.0
Flamingo Road
1980
5.7
The Dream Merchants
1980
8.0
The Memory of Eva Ryker
1980
5.6
Challenge of the Tiger
1980
4.8
Concrete Cowboys
1979
5.6
A Man Called Sloane
1979
7.0
Time Express
1979NR
$weepstake$
1979
7.0
Murder in Music City
1979
7.0
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978
7.1
Mork & Mindy
1978
9.0
Escapade
1978
6.3
The Amazing Spider-Man
1978
6.9
Dallas
1978
5.5
The Initiation of Sarah
1978
6.3
The Love Boat
1977
7.5
Rafferty
1977
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
6.6
Switch
1975
6.4
Police Woman
1974
7.6
Happy Days
1974
7.2
Kojak
1973
7.5
The Bob Newhart Show
1972
4.1
A Bullet for Pretty Boy
1970
7.5
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
8.0
Search for Tomorrow
1951