Bess Rous first appeared on TV in a brief role in the NBC criminal thriller series Third Watch in 2004. She has also been in the NBC courtroom drama Law & Order and the MTV reality show Damage Control as a guest star. She played Marjorie in a few of episodes of the first season of Jon Hamm’s AMC period drama Mad Men in 2007.
Rous made her television debut in 2014 as Ivana West in the first season of TNT’s crime thriller series Murder in the First, in which she co-starred with Tom Felton and Steven Weber. Karen Lipinski in the Yahoo! Screen sci-fi sitcom Other Space was her other notable television role. Rous has also appeared as a guest on a number of other television episodes, including Gossip Girl, Army Wives, The Mentalist, Blue Bloods, Under the Dome, Castle, Rosewood, and Grey’s Anatomy.
Rous made her feature film debut in Robert De Niro’s 2008 satirical comedy-drama. She appeared in other films in the following years, including The Hungry Ghosts, Darkroom, and Welcome to Happiness.
Rous also appeared in the 2016 remake of the 1984 classic Ghostbusters, which included a female-led cast. Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Chris Hemsworth, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones were among the ensemble cast of actresses that played Gertrude Aldridge’s spirit.
