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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1923-01-19 (102 years old)

Place of Birth

Manhattan, New York, US

Jean Stapleton

Biography:

Jean 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".

Known For

Acting

2016

2009

2004

2003

2001

2000

Baby as Byrd

1998

You've Got Mail as Birdie Conrad
Chance of a Lifetime as Mrs. Dunbar
Style & Substance as Gloria Utley

1996

Michael as Pansy Milbank
Lily Dale as Mrs. Coons

1995

Caroline in the City as Aunt Mary Kosky

1994

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle as Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

1993

The Trial as Landlady (uncredited)

1992

The Habitation of Dragons as Lenora Tolliver
Beakman's World as Beakman's Mom

1991

Fire in the Dark as Henry Dutton

1990

Bagdad Cafe as Jasmine Zweibel

1988

1987

1986

Dead Man's Folly as Ariadne Oliver

1985

Cinderella as Fairy Godmother

1984

The Buddy System as Mrs. Price
A Matter of Sex as Irene Wallin

1983

Jack and the Beanstalk as The Giantess

1982

Faerie Tale Theatre as The Giantess
Faerie Tale Theatre as The Fairy Godmother

1981

Angel Dusted as Betty Eaton
Isabel's Choice as Isabel Cooper

1979

Aunt Mary as Mary Dobkin
You Can't Take it With You as Penny Sycamore

1977

Tail Gunner Joe as Mrs. DeCamp

1976

The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star

1975

Cher as Self
Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1973

1971

Cold Turkey as Mrs. Wappler
Klute as Goldfarb’s Secretary
All in the Family as Edith Bunker

1968

The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1967

Up the Down Staircase as Sadie Finch
The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest / Various Characters

1963

1962

The Nurses as Mrs. Montgomery

1961

Something Wild as Shirley Johnson
The Defenders as Mrs. Larsen
Dr. Kildare as Nurse Whitney

1960

1959

1958

Damn Yankees as Sister Miller
Naked City as Marilyn Konish
Naked City as Mrs. Trellis

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
Tony Awards as Self - Host

1954

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Mary Dobkin

1950

1948