Bonnie Bedelia first became known in the 1960s as part of the CBS daytime soap Love of Life. During the time she was also active on Broadway, eventually winning a Theater World Award in 1967. She married scriptwriter Ken Luber in 1969, and decided to focus on raising a family throughout the 1970s; she had two sons with him, Yuri and Jonah, and the two later divorced.
Bedelia returned to acting in the 1980s, and earned a Golden Globe nomination for her stint in the 1983 film Heart Like A Wheel. She also appeared alongside Bruce Willis in the first two Die Hard films. In 2001 she joined the Lifetime police series The Division, which she was a part of until 2004. She currently stars in the NBC drama Parenthood, as the matriarch of the Braverman family, Camille.
- She is the co-founder of the Los Angeles Classic Theater Works.
- She is the aunt of actor Macaulay Culkin.
- Theater World Award, 1967 (for My Sweet Charlie)
- Lone Star Film & Television Award, Best TV Actress, 1999 (for To Live Again)
FILM:
- The Gypsy Moths (1969)
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
- Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
- In Pursuit of Treasure (1972)
- The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie (1972)
- Between Friends 91973)
- The Big Fix (1978)
- Heart Like A Wheel (1983)
- Death of an Angel (1986)
- Violets are Blue... (1986)
- The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
- The Stranger (1987)
- The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
- Die Hard 2 (1990)
- Presumed Innocent (1990)
- Needful Things (1993)
- Judicial Consent (1994)
- Speechless (1994)
- Bad Manners (1997)
- Gloria (1999)
- Anywhere But Here (1999)
- Sordid Lives (2000)
- Manhood (2003)
- Berkeley (2005)
TELEVISION:
- Love of Life (regular, 1961-1967)
- The New Land (regular, 1974)
- The Division (regular, 2001-2004)
- Sordid Lives: The Series (regular, 2008)
- Parenthood (regular, 2010-present)