Mia Dillon was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1955. She made her Broadway debut in the Irish comedy “Da” in 1978. The following year she made her big screen debut in “Night-Flowers” as well as appearing on Broadway in “Once a Catholic” - both were flops. “Crimes of the Heart,” her next Broadway outing, was not. It ran more than 500 performances and got Dillon a Tony nomination for her role as Babe Botrelle, a Southern housewife who has shot her lawyer husband. She left the show a year later to step into the title role in “Agnes of God,” previously played by Amanda Plummer. That was followed by a short-lived revival of “The Corn is Green” in 1983 and a more successful revival of Noel Coward's “Hay Fever” in 1985. After three TV movies, she finally was in a hit film with “The Money Pit” in 1990. From 1992 to the present she has been seen frequently as different characters on each iteration of the TV show “Law and Order.” In 1990 she took time to appear in Circle-in-the-Square's 1990 revival of Moliere's “The Miser.” Her most recent stint on the Great White Way was as the weepy Mrs. Soames in the Westport Country Playhouse's production of “Our Town” starring Paul Newman. The play was also aired on PBS. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, actor Keir Dullea. She was last seen with Dullea in the 2013 film “Isn't It Delicious.”
