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Margo Winkler

Actor

Margo Winkler

Born August 13, 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA20 films

Margo Winkler is an American actress, who often played minor roles as receptionists, clerks or judges. She is known for her minor roles in several of Martin Scorsese's films which her husband Irwin Winkler produced. She is best known for her roles in Goodfellas (1990) as Belle Kessler and as the receptionist in The King of Comedy (1983) whom Robert De Niro's character approaches on numerous occasions. She is also known for her role as Barbara in Life as a House (2001). She made her screen debut in 1970 in Stuart Hagmann's The Strawberry Statement. In 1999 she appeared in her son Charles Winkler's picture Rocky Marciano, and her last appearance was in 2006 in her husband Irwin Winkler's Home of the Brave as a waiting room mother.

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GoodFellas posterFirst watchGoodFellas19908.4as Belle KesslerThe true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance…View film

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20 films as actor
  1. 2006Home of the BraveWaiting Room Mother
  2. 2001Life as a HouseBarbara
  3. 1999Rocky MarcianoAirport Clerk
  4. 1999At First SightNancy Bender
  5. 1995Red Ribbon BluesHelen
  6. 1995The NetMrs. Raines
  7. 1992Night and the CityJudge Parker
  8. 1991Guilty by SuspicionLeta Rosen
  9. 1990GoodFellasBelle Kessler
  10. 1989Music BoxIrma Kiss
  11. 1987You Talkin' to Me?Receptionist
  12. 1985After HoursWoman With Gun
  13. 1982The King of ComedyReceptionist
  14. 1982Author! Author!Millie
  15. 1977New York, New YorkArgumentative Woman
  16. 1975PeeperWoman with Luggage
  17. 1974BustingMrs. Rizzo
  18. 1972Up the SandboxHospital Clerk
  19. 1971The Gang That Couldn't Shoot StraightAirline Clerk
  20. 1970The Strawberry StatementWoman