Morgan Fairchild
Acting
Born February 3, 1950 · 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.
Films (95)
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy
2025
Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story
2023
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
2023
The Nana Project
2023
A Date by Christmas Eve
2019
All Good Things
2019
My Perfect Romance
2018
Scales
2017
You're Gonna Miss Me
2017
A Christmas in Vermont
2016
Bikini Model Academy
2015
Sam
2015
Wiener Dog Internationals
2015
Christian Mingle
2014
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
Perfect on Paper
2014
Dark Power
2013
Wiener Dog Nationals
2013
American Horror House
2012
A Perfect Ending
2012
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
2011
Boy Toy
2011
eCupid
2011
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2011
Life's a Beach
2010
The Slammin' Salmon
2009
The Sno Cone Stand Inc
2008
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
The Initiation of Sarah
2006
Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery
2006
Arizona Summer
2004
Knuckle Sandwich
2004
I Was a Teenage Faust
2002
Teddy Bears' Picnic
2001
Peril
2001
Held for Ransom
2000
Unshackled
2000
Nice Guys Sleep Alone
1999
Holy Man
1998
Shattered Illusions
1998
Bimbo Movie Bash
1997
Moment of Truth: Into the Arms of Danger
1997
Teenage Confidential
1996
Sex, Drugs and Consequences
1996
Star Command
1996
Dead Man's Island
1996
Criminal Hearts
1996
Venus Rising
1995
Virgin Mary
1995
Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000
1994
Das Paradies am Ende der Berge
1994
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994
Body Chemistry III: Point of Seduction
1994
The Legacy of Malthus
1994
Freaked
1993
Based on an Untrue Story
1993
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
1991
Writer's Block
1991
Even Angels Fall
1991
Menu for Murder
1990
Mob Boss
1990
How to Murder a Millionaire
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
1989
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
1989
Midnight Cop
1988
Street of Dreams
1988
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
1988
Disney's Magic in the Magic Kingdom
1988
Deadly Illusion
1987
Sleeping Beauty
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
Campus Man
1987
Red Headed Stranger
1986
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Rodney Dangerfield: Exposed!
1985
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
1984
Time Bomb
1984
The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team
1984
Honeyboy
1982
Night of 100 Stars
1982
The Seduction
1982
Magic with the Stars
1982
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
1981
Flamingo Road
1980
The Memory of Eva Ryker
1980
Challenge of the Tiger
1980
Concrete Cowboys
1979
Murder in Music City
1979
Escapade
1978
The Initiation of Sarah
1978
A Bullet for Pretty Boy
1970