Katherine Helmond
Birthday: 1929-07-05 | Place of Birth: Galveston, Texas, USAKatherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1929 – February 23, 2019) was an American film, theater, and television actress, and director. Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on Coach and Lois Whelan, the mother of Debra Barone, on Everybody Loves Raymond. She guest starred on a number of TV shows including True Blood, Strong Medicine, Providence, The Love Boat, The Bionic Woman (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bob Newhart Show, Mannix, and Gunsmoke. She had supporting roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), and Overboard (1987). She also voiced Lizzie in the Cars trilogy by Disney/Pixar. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katherine Helmond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Betty
as Lizzie (voice)
as Lizzie (voice)
as Irene Longfellow
as Self
as Roxie Famosa
as Crazy Cora Wilkens
as Queen Carlotta
as Mrs. Ford
as Mrs. McBride
as Desk Clerk at Mint Hotel
as Maude Marley
as Hedda Hopper
as Dr. Pamela Schilling
as Honor Zetterland
as Mildred Schwartz
as Minerva
as Emma Carr
as Farm Woman
as Geena Milner
as Barbara Patterson
as Amanda
as Edith Mintz
as Lady Constance Landau
as Mrs. Mutterance
as Mrs. Ida Lowry
as Mona Robinson
