Jean Stapleton
ActingAlso Known As
Джин Стэплтон, جین استاپلتون
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".
Movies
(42 total)
You've Got Mail
as Birdie Conrad
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
as Mrs. Jenkins (voice)
Michael
as Pansy Milbank
Klute
as Goldfarb’s Secretary
Dead Man's Folly
as Ariadne Oliver
Bells Are Ringing
as Sue
Damn Yankees
as Sister Miller
Something Wild
as Shirley Johnson
The Trial
as Landlady (uncredited)
Cold Turkey
as Mrs. Wappler
Up the Down Staircase
as Sadie Finch
The Last Laugh
as Self
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
as Mother Goose
The Buddy System
as Mrs. Price
Cinderella
as Fairy Godmother
Pursuit of Happiness
as Lorraine
Pursuit of Happiness
as Lorrraine
Chance of a Lifetime
as Mrs. Dunbar
Lily Dale
as Mrs. Coons
TV Shows
(49 total)
Everybody Loves Raymond
as Aunt Alda
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Muppet Show
as Self - Special Guest Star
Touched by an Angel
as Emma
All in the Family
as Edith Bunker
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self - Guest / Various Characters
Beakman's World
as Beakman's Mom
Caroline in the City
as Aunt Mary Kosky
Faerie Tale Theatre
as The Giantess
Faerie Tale Theatre
as The Fairy Godmother