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Jean Stapleton
Conocido por: InterpretaciónJean Stapleton was born Jeanne Murray in Manhattan, New York City, to Marie A. (Stapleton), an opera singer, and Joseph Edward Murray, a billboard advertising salesman. Her paternal grandparents were Irish. She was a cousin of actress Betty Jane Watson. Other relatives in show business were her uncle, Joseph E. Deming, a vaudevillian; and her brother Jack Stapleton, a stage actor. She graduated from Wadleigh High School, NYC, in 1939, and attended Hunter College. She worked as a secretary before becoming an actress. Stapleton made her stage debut at the Greenwood Playhouse, Peaks Island, Maine, in the summer of 1941, and her New York stage debut in "The Corn Is Green" (1948). She appeared on Broadway in the musicals "Damn Yankees" (1955) and "Bells Are Ringing" (1956), and later repeated her roles in the movie versions (Damn Yankees (1958) and Bells Are Ringing (1960)). Her other Broadway roles included the original companies of "Rhinoceros" (1961) and "Funny Girl" (1964). Stapleton also played Abby Brewster in the 1986-87 revival of "Arsenic and Old Lace".
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All in the Family
como Edith Bunker
Tienes Un E-mail
como Birdie Conrad
Pocahontas II: Encuentro de dos mundos
como Mrs. Jenkins (voice)
El pasado me condena
como Goldfarb's Secretary
Michael
como Pansy Milbank
El templete de Nasse House
como Ariadne Oliver
Un mes de abstinencia
como Mrs. Wappler
Contra corriente
como Sadie Finch
Esta rubia vale un millón
como Sue
Aunt Mary
como Mary Dobkin
Algo salvaje
como Shirley Johnson
Malditos Yankees!
como Sister Miller
Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes
como Irene Silverman
You Can't Take it With You
como Penny Sycamore
Fire in the Dark
como Henry Dutton
Bury Me in Niagara
como Mildred
Lily Dale
como Mrs. Coons
Eleanor, First Lady of the World
como Eleanor Roosevelt
A Matter of Sex
como Irene Wallin
Baby
como Byrd