EXCLUSIVE Tom Cruise co-star who also acted on Friends is unrecognizable at 75... can you guess who she is?
On the big screen, she has featured in movies with a dazzling array of top-flight stars including Tom Cruise, Sandra Bullock, Steve Carell and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Her television work has ranged from The Golden Girls and Friends to CSI and Six Feet Under, with more recent roles on The Mindy Project and How I Met Your Mother.
She was the image of summery style when she surfaced recently in California, looking as spry as ever at the age of 75.
Her snappy outfit included a nautical chic set of navy and white shorts, teamed with a long-sleeved polo shirt and an elegant wide-brimmed straw hat.
Can you guess who she is?
The actress in question is none other than Beth Grant, who featured in the 1988 film Rain Man starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman.
Dustin played an autistic man called Ray who insists on maintaining a rigorously fixed routine, with Tom featuring as his brother Charlie.
In one memorable scene, the brothers stop into a strange family's farmhouse so that Ray can carry out his daily ritual of watching The People's Court.
Beth plays the mother of the family, to whom Charlie has to explain: 'That man right there is my brother and if he doesn't get to watch People's Court in about 30 seconds he's going to throw a fit right here on your porch.'
Her other famed movies include the 2001 sci-fi thriller Donnie Darko, with its formidable cast including Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore and Patrick Swayze.
Jake plays a teenager called Donnie plagued by visions of a man in a rabbit costume, resulting in increasingly erratic behavior that his unhinged gym teacher Kitty Farmer - played by Beth - tries to curtail by giving him 'attitude lessons.'
Beth's has also been in such movies as A Time to Kill with Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey, as well as Little Miss Sunshine with Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette.
She had guest shots on a wide variety of television programs, including The Golden Girls, Criminal Minds, CSI, Six Feet Under and even Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
She was the image of summery style when she surfaced recently in California , looking as spry as ever at the age of 75
Her television work has ranged from The Golden Girls and Friends to CSI and Six Feet Under, with more recent roles on The Mindy Project and How I Met Your Mother
Beth is still working, having landed a principal role on this year's Amazon Prime series The Bondsman, starring Kevin Bacon as a resurrected bounty hunter
On the early Friends episode The One with the Thumb, Beth played a vagrant whom Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) knew back when she herself was homeless.
In the 2010s she was part of the main cast of The Mindy Project as Beverly, a receptionist at the hospital where Mindy Kaling's character works as an OB/GYN.
Beth is still working, having landed a principal role on this year's Amazon Prime series The Bondsman, starring Kevin Bacon as a resurrected bounty hunter.
She has roles in a number of upcoming projects as well, having recently filmed the Netflix movie Remarkably Bright Creatures starring Sally Field alongside Bill Pullman's son Lewis Pullman, who is now dating Cindy Crawford's daughter Kaia Gerber.
On the personal front, Beth has been married to fellow actor Michael Chieffo for 40 years, and their daughter Mary Chieffo, 32, has followed her parents' footsteps into the profession, featuring on Star Trek: Discovery.
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