Marcia Jean Kurtz is an American film stage and television actress and director She has appeared in such films as The Panic in Needle Park In Her Shoes Dog Day Afternoon and Big Fan Kurtz won an Obie Award for her performance as Doris in Donald Margulies The Loman Family Picnic She was also nominated for both an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for her role in Martin Shermans When She Danced Kurtz also directed Matty Selmans Uncle Phillips Coat and Evan Handlers Time of Fire She has appeared several times on the television series Law Order