Elizabeth Wilson, Character Actress With Roles in '9 to 5' and 'The Graduate,' Dies at 94, Elizabeth Wilson, a Tony champ and character performer who had significant supporting parts in movies, for example, The Graduate and 9 to 5, has passed on. She was 94.
Wilson passed on Saturday in New Haven, Conn., her companion Elizabeth Morton affirmed to The New York Times.
Amid her about seven-decade vocation, Wilson won a Tony in 1972 for David Rabe's against war dramatization Sticks and Bones. She additionally was selected for an Emmy for her part in NBC's 1987 miniseries Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder.
One of her most paramount film parts was that of Benjamin Braddock's (Dustin Hoffman) mother in Mike Nichols' 1967 film The Graduate. She went on rejoin with Nichols on Catch-22 (1970), The Day of the Dolphin (1973) and Regarding Henry (1991).
Other paramount parts incorporated that of Roz, the foe of 9 to 5's heroes played by Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin. She likewise played Ralph Fiennes' mom in Quiz Show (1994) and the mother of an Uncle Festor impostor (Christopher Lloyd) in 1991's The Addams Family. Her last film part was in 2012's Hyde Park on Hudson as Mrs. Roosevelt.
Wilson passed on Saturday in New Haven, Conn., her companion Elizabeth Morton affirmed to The New York Times.Amid her about seven-decade vocation, Wilson won a Tony in 1972 for David Rabe's against war dramatization Sticks and Bones. She additionally was selected for an Emmy for her part in NBC's 1987 miniseries Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder.
One of her most paramount film parts was that of Benjamin Braddock's (Dustin Hoffman) mother in Mike Nichols' 1967 film The Graduate. She went on rejoin with Nichols on Catch-22 (1970), The Day of the Dolphin (1973) and Regarding Henry (1991).
Other paramount parts incorporated that of Roz, the foe of 9 to 5's heroes played by Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin. She likewise played Ralph Fiennes' mom in Quiz Show (1994) and the mother of an Uncle Festor impostor (Christopher Lloyd) in 1991's The Addams Family. Her last film part was in 2012's Hyde Park on Hudson as Mrs. Roosevelt.
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