Mary Kay Place

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Biography

A versatile and multi-talented performer on film and in television, Emmy winner Mary Kay Place essayed free-thinking, often eccentric women in projects ranging from "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" (syndicated, 1976-77) and "The Big Chill" (1983) to "Being John Malkovich" (1999) and "Big Love" (HBO, 2006- ). Her knack for gentle comedy and singing caught the eye of both Tim Conway and Norman Lear, who provided her first breaks in the early 1970s; …
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Job Title

Actor, Writer, Music

Born

September 23, 1947

LATEST CREDITS

Manny and Lo

Elaine

Traitor in My House

Elizabeth Van Lew

Mom's on Strike

Ellie Skinner

Point Last Seen

Coreen Davis

Claire's Cambodia

Actor

Out on the Edge

Sondra Evetts

Indecent Seduction

Betty Ann Dustin

Martin Mull in "Portrait of a White Marriage"

Joyce Harrison

The Girl Who Spelled Freedom

Prissy Thrash

Evergreen

Susan Turly

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

Norma Williams

Barbara Taylor Bradford's "Love in Another Town"

Sam

Leslie's Folly

Susan

The Booth

Actor ("Bread" )

Captain Ron

Katherine Harvey

Forever Fernwood

Loretta Haggers; Tom's neighbor

Modern Problems

Lorraine

Lonesome Jim

Sally

Smooth Talk

Katherine

Just My Imagination

Shilda Hawk

Samantha

Marilyn

How to Make the Cruelest Month

Mary Bryant

Crazy From the Heart

Merrilee Payton

Citizen Ruth

Gail Stoney

The Cheerleaders

Margie; a cheerleader