Actor
Mary Tanner Bailey
May 21, 1963 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Mary Tanner (born 21 May 1963) is an actress whose career includes over 100 professional roles in film, television and theatre. After high profile roles for CBS and PBS in the 1980s, she returned to her native Nashville in the early '90s and began writing and producing local productions. She eventually went into puppeteering and puppet building with Wishing Chair Productions and, later, Brianimations, with Brian Hull. Tanner continues to act, and in 2019, she was seen in Dolly Parton’s Smokey Mountain Christmas Carol at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston, MA and God, Help Us!, co-starring Ed Asner, at the Franklin Theater in Franklin, TN.
Notable work
Often works with
Tom Bosley
2 titles together
Murder, She Wrote, Private Sessions
Kelly McGillis
2 titles together
An Uncommon Grace, Private Sessions
Seth Green
2 titles together
Willy/Milly, A Billion for Boris
Pat Petersen
2 titles together
CBS Schoolbreak Special, Little Miss Perfect
Diane Baker
2 titles together
CBS Schoolbreak Special, Little Miss Perfect
Adrienne Meltzer
2 titles together
Izzy & Moe, A Billion for Boris
Full filmography · 12
An Uncommon Grace
as Rose Fisher
20176.5
The Work and the Glory II: American Zion
as Elsa Johnson
2005
Existo
as Lahlo
1999
Getting Up and Going Home
as Barbara Montgomery
1992
Return to Green Acres
as Daisy Ziffel
1990
Little Miss Perfect
as Debbie Welker
1987
Willy/Milly
as Stephanie
1986
Izzy & Moe
as Lilly
1985
Private Sessions
as Millie Braden
1985
A Billion for Boris
as Annabel Andrews
1984