'80s television star who worked with Warren Beatty and Robert De Niro is unrecognizable on rare outing... can you guess who?

This star of the 1980s looked nearly unrecognizable when she was pictured out running errands in Los Angeles earlier this week.

The 74-year-old actress got her first screen credits in the 1970s on television, but it wasn't until the '80s that she truly hit her stride.

She appeared in major big-screen comedies that bookended the decade, one of which featured a star famous for appearing in mob films.

In the '90s, she had one of her biggest roles to date in an organized crime film that saw her starring opposite screen legend Warren Beatty.

More recently, she has used her passion for acting to teach a new generation of students.

Can you guess who this film and television star is? 

This star of the 1980s looked nearly unrecognizable when she was pictured out running errands in Los Angeles earlier this week

The 74-year-old actress got her first screen credits in the 1970s on television, but it wasn't until the next decade that she truly hit her stride

In the '90s, she had one of her biggest roles to date in a crime film starring opposite screen legend Warren Beatty

She's Wendy Phillips, best known for roles in Midnight Run and Bugsy, as well as the primetime soap operas Homefront, Falcon Crest and Promised Land.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Phillips for comment but has not yet heard back. 

Phillips looked cool but classy while taking care of business in LA earlier this week. 

She was dressed in a tasteful navy suit with a long jacket, but she added a playful casual note with a white T-shirt reading 'The future is female.'

The TV star was seen carrying a slim dark brown handbag, as well as a larger brown leather tote bag, along with multiple drinks, and she stayed comfortable with a pair of blue-and-white Hoka trainers.

She wore her long silver locks swept back, and she blocked out the sun with stylish tortoiseshell sunglasses. 

Phillips, who was born in Brooklyn in 1952, was the child of a pair of actors, though her parents eventually separated after her father, Wendell K Phillips, was reportedly blacklisted over his political views. 

After a move to Berkeley, California, Phillips's family found itself on more solid footing after her mother began teaching acting classes that soon grew in popularity, allowing her to form her own acting school.

She's Wendy Phillips, best known for roles in Midnight Run and Bugsy, as well as the primetime soap operas Homefront, Falcon Crest and Promised Land (Above, (L–R) John Slattery, Wendy Phillips, Jessica Steen and Kyle Chandler in Promised Land)

Phillips looked cool but classy while taking care of business in LA earlier this week. She was dressed in a tasteful navy suit with a long jacket, but she added a playful casual note with a white T-shirt reading 'The future is female'

The TV star was seen carrying a slim dark brown handbag, as well as a larger brown leather tote bag, along with multiple drinks, and she stayed comfortable with a pair of blue-and-white Hoka trainers

She wore her long silver locks swept back, and she blocked out the sun with stylish tortoiseshell sunglasses

Phillips, who was born in Brooklyn in 1952, was the child of a pair of actors who later separated when her father was blacklisted. She and her four siblings moved to Berkeley, California, with her mother, who started an acting school

Phillips was almost lured into a career in law after studying pre-law at the University of California at Berkeley, but she eventually followed in her parents' footsteps. 

She made her acting debut with two TV movies that aired in 1975, Death Be Not Proud and One of Our Own. 

Her first series role came the following year with a major part on the TV adaptation of Executive Suite, which became the first of several primetime soap operas that she would star on.

She then appeared on the short-lived The Eddie Capra Mysteries beginning in 1978, and she had guest roles throughout the late '70s and early '80s on Lou Grant, BJ and the Bear, CHiPs, Trapper John, MD and Taxi, among other shows.

Phillips looked as if she was ready to make the jump to feature films when she appeared in Airplane II: The Sequel in 1982. 

However, the film, which was made without the participation of the creative team that helped make the 1980 original a comedy sensation, was a disappointing critical and commercial failure.

After more guest roles on St Elsewhere, the revived Twilight Zone, Amazing Stories, Matlock and Murder, She Wrote, Phillips scored her first feature film role in six years in Midnight Run.

The hit comedy allowed Robert De Niro to distance himself from the crime films that made his name, as he played a bounty hunter tasked with hunting down an accountant (Charles Grodin) who had embezzled millions from mobsters. 

After appearing on multiple TV shows in mid-'70s and early '80s, Phillips looked as if she was going to make the jump to films with 1982's Airplane II (Above), but she returned to TV after its commercial failure

She followed it up in 1991 with the mob film Bugsy, which starred Warren Beatty as the mobster Bugsy Siegel. Phillips played his wife Esta Krakower

Despite her successes on the big screen, Phillips didn't jump headfirst into films and instead continued to pursue more prominent roles on television with shows including A Year in the Life, The Robert Guillaume Show, the primetime soap Falcon Crest

After appearing on multiple episodes of Touched by an Angel in the mid-'90s, she starred on the spinoff series Promised Land (Above) for three seasons

In the 2000s, Phillips had small supporting parts in the Sean Penn and Dakota Fanning drama I Am Sam, the 2006 dramedy Friends with Money and 2007 political thriller Rendition

Since the start of the current century, Phillips has also taught acting privately, but she shared her passion more widely in recent years when she joined the faculty at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts as an adjunct associate professor

Phillips appeared in the comedy as De Niro's ex-wife. 

Midnight Run proved to be a hit with critics and at the box office, and it has become one of the most popular comedies of the 1980s. 

She followed it up in 1991 with the mob film Bugsy, which starred Warren Beatty as the mobster Bugsy Siegel. 

Phillips played his wife Esta Krakower, though it was the starlet Virginia Hill (played by Beatty's future wife, Annette Bening) who drew most of his attention.

Despite her successes on the big screen, Phillips didn't jump headfirst into films and instead continued to pursue more prominent roles on television with shows including A Year in the Life, The Robert Guillaume Show, the primetime soaps Falcon Crest and Homefront, and later in the '90s, the Touched by an Angel spinoff Promised Land.

She went on to have guest appearances on ER, The Closer, Bones and Seal Team, and she also had a recurring part on HBO's acclaimed Big Love. 

In the 2000s, Phillips had small supporting parts in the Sean Penn and Dakota Fanning drama I Am Sam, the 2006 dramedy Friends with Money and 2007 political thriller Rendition. 

Since the start of the current century, Phillips has also taught acting privately, but she shared her passion more widely in recent years when she joined the faculty at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts as an adjunct associate professor.