<P> She is best known for her critically acclaimed work on HBO's original drama series Six Feet Under, which she starred in from 2001 and the series' end in 2005, playing the emotional family matriarch Ruth Fisher . During the series' run, Conroy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress--Television Series Drama in 2004 . She was also nominated for four Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series awards, without winning . Along with the cast of the show, they were awarded two times in 2003 and 2004 the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, as well as Conroy winning the individual 2004 award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series . The series ended in 2005, having aired 63 original episodes . </P> <P> In 2008, she landed a guest role in ABC's Desperate Housewives as Virginia Hildebrand, a rich woman who tries to buy the Solis family's love . </P> <P> Along with many guest appearances on television in the mid-2000s, she was cast in a recurring role on How I Met Your Mother, as Barney Stinson's mother Loretta Stinson . And in 2010, Conroy portrayed the character Angie Dinkley in the animated show Scooby - Doo! Mystery Incorporated . </P> <P> In 2010, Conroy played Madylyn, the wife of Robert De Niro's character Jack Mabrey, in the John Curran thriller Stone . In the same year, Conroy played the recurring role of Peggy Haplin in the short - lived ABC drama series Happy Town . </P>

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