Jean Stapleton
Birthday: 1923-01-19 | Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, USJean 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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jouer Byrd
jouer Birdie Conrad
jouer Mrs. Jenkins (voice)
jouer Beakman's Mom
jouer Henry Dutton
jouer Ariadne Oliver
jouer Mrs. Price
jouer Eleanor Roosevelt
jouer Mary Dobkin
jouer Mrs. DeCamp
jouer Gina's Mother
jouer Edith Bunker
jouer Mrs. Wappler
jouer Strassberg's Secretary
jouer Sadie Finch
jouer Sue
jouer Sister Miller
