Annie Corley

Corley graduated from McCutcheon High School in 1978 and DePauw University in 1982. At DePauw, she majored in communication and participated in student theatrical productions. She also studied at the Actors Studio. She first appeared in Malcolm X. Since then, she has been featured in several other Oscar-nominated films, such as The Cider House Rules, Seabiscuit, 21 Grams, and Monster. She co-starred in The Lucky Ones and in 2009 appeared in Crazy Heart and Law Abiding Citizen. Among her television appearances, she has guest starred on The Closer, NYPD Blue, as the mother of Zachary Quinto on Touched by an Angel, conservative Christian pundit Mary Marsh on The West Wing, Without a Trace, Murder, She Wrote, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and The Practice.