The roles which made her most familiar to film audiences were as Lindsay Lohan's mother in Disney hit The Parent Trap and as the frosty socialite in Maid In Manhattan with Jennifer Lopez.

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"(After doing) a very commercial romcom with J Lo called Maid in Manhattan I went on to do an Ibsen play called Brand, which is extremely intense, and there would be all these J Lo romcom fans that had come to see Ibsen's Brand, which I thought was great, " he says.

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