Actor

Jean Stapleton

January 19, 1923 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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).

Notable work

6.7
You've Got Mail (1998)
as Birdie Conrad
5.6
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
as Mrs. Jenkins (voice)
5.7
Michael (1996)
as Pansy Milbank
6.8
Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)
as Aunt Alda
6.8
Klute (1971)
as Goldfarb's Secretary
6.9
Saturday Night Live (1975)
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
8
The Muppet Show (1976)
as Self - Special Guest Star

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