# Maree Cheatham

Maree Cheatham (also credited as Marie Cheatham) is an American actress, who is known for her performances on the daytime soap operas Days of Our Lives (1965–1968, 1970–1971, 1973, 1994, 1996, 2010, 2024), Search for Tomorrow and General Hospital, as well as for her role as Nona on the Nickelodeon comedy series Sam & Cat (2013–2014). She has also worked in many feature films, including Soul Man (1986), A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Hanging Up (2000), Labor Pains (2009) and Letters to God (2010).

## Life and career

Cheatham graduated from Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas in 1958. She was an original cast member of the daytime serial Days of Our Lives, in which she played the role of Marie Horton, who was the show's very first heroine. Horton has several traumatic relationships before going into a convent to become a nun.
After leaving Days of Our Lives in 1973, she moved to New York, where in 1974 she originated the role of the sarcastic and vampy Stephanie Wilkins on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. She was replaced on that soap opera in early 1984 by actress and writer Louise Shaffer. In 1987, she became a regular cast member of General Hospital as Lucy Coe's wacky and fun-loving Aunt Charlene Simpson. When Gloria Monty returned as a producer in 1991, Cheatham was one of many cast members let go, but in 1998 Cheatham returned to the role with a brief appearance on the General Hospital spin-off Port Charles.
During the last two seasons of Knots Landing, she played the role of the scheming Mary Robeson, a blackmailer who became the victim in a murder mystery.
Cheatham has returned to Days of Our Lives on several occasions to reprise the role of Marie Horton, as a doctor and no longer a nun. She returned twice in 1994 and 2010 for tributes to actors that died — MacDonald Carey and Frances Reid who played Marie's father and mother, respectively. Her character also attended one of Bo and Hope's remarriages. In 2024 she returned for the funeral of Doug Williams played by Bill Hayes who was once married to her sister Addie and after her death, he married her daughter Julie (Marie's niece).
Cheatham played the role of Mona on the soap opera Passions in 2002.
She has also made many guest appearances in TV series such as Gunsmoke, Cagney and Lacey, Quantum Leap, The Nanny, Dharma & Greg, Profiler, Judging Amy, Scrubs, The West Wing, Monk, Cold Case and Desperate Housewives. She has also appeared in movies such as Beetlejuice, Rumor Has It..., Mr. & Mrs. Smith, America's Sweethearts, and a notable cameo in The Wedding Singer, in which she innocently asked Billy Idol what the mile high club was.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1974 | Indict and Convict | Barbara Mathews | TV film |
| 1986 | Soul Man | Dorothy Watson | |
| 1988 | Beetlejuice | Sarah Dean | |
| 1988 | Dangerous Curves | Mrs. Brooks | |
| 1998 | A Night at the Roxbury | Mabel Sanderson | |
| 1998 | Like Father, Like Santa | Ms. Fischer | TV film |
| 1998 | The Wedding Singer | Nice Lady on Plane | |
| 1998 | Perfect Prey | Mrs. Leary | TV film |
| 1999 | Lost & Found | Mrs. Millstone | |
| 1999 | The Bachelor | Mona Arden | |
| 2000 | Hanging Up | Angie | |
| 2001 | Just Ask My Children | Corene Oliver | TV film |
| 2001 | Comedy Central Thanxgiveaway: Home Fires | Evelyn Gordon | TV film |
| 2002 | Point of Origin | Gabby Finn | TV film |
| 2004 | The Affair | Charlene | |
| 2004 | Comedy Central Laughs for Life Telethon 2004 | Sen. Langman | TV film |
| 2006 | The Last Time | Gladys | |
| 2008 | Broken Angel | Mrs. Kraus | |
| 2009 | Little Fish, Strange Pond | Landlord | |
| 2009 | Stellina Blue | Clare | |
| 2009 | Crossing Over | Judge Freeman | |
| 2009 | Labor Pains | Ann | |
| 2009 | Protection | Mrs. Shapiro | Short |
| 2010 | Letters to God | Olivia | |
| 2017 | A Moving Romance | Midge | TV film |
| 2018 | Anyone Home? | Mrs. Kakanian | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1965–68, 1970–71, 1973, 1994, 1996, 2010, 2024 | Days of Our Lives | Marie Horton | Regular role |
| 1969 | The Outcasts | Cora | "And Then There Was One" |
| 1970 | Gunsmoke | Abigail Hartly | "McCabe" |
| 1971 | The F.B.I. | Miss Evans | "Center of Peril" |
| 1971 | Bearcats! | Jessica Adams | "Assault on San Saba" |
| 1972 | Hawaii Five-O | Amy Carter | "R & R & R" |
| 1974–1984 | Search for Tomorrow | Stephanie Wyatt | Contract role |
| 1986 | Cagney & Lacey | Mrs Delicath | "A Safe Place" |
| 1987 | Hunter | Cynthia Jane Bartlett | "Double Exposure" |
| 1987 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Mrs. George | "Juvi" |
| 1987–91, 1997 | General Hospital | Charlene Simpson | TV series |
| 1988 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | Janine | "Rock 'n' Roll Mom" |
| 1989 | CBS Summer Playhouse | Ilene Patterson | "B-Men" |
| 1990 | Columbo | Mrs. Rowe | "Columbo Goes to College" |
| 1991 | Quantum Leap | Margaret Twilly | "Play Ball" |
| 1992 | Rachel Gunn, R.N. | Amy Proctor | "I Dream of Squidhead" |
| 1992 | Empty Nest | Audrey | "Sayonara" |
| 1992–93 | Knots Landing | Mary Robeson | Recurring role |
| 1994 | The Nanny | Emma Trusdale | "The Show Must Go On" |
| 1995 | Acapulco Bay | Victoria | Main role |
| 1996 | The Jeff Foxworthy Show | Molly | "The Gift" |
| 1997 | Conan | Yantona | "Ransom" |
| 1997 | The Journey of Allen Strange | Irma Stephenson | "Space" |
| 1997 | Profiler | Judge Paramen | "Second Best" |
| 1998 | George and Leo | Lorna | "The Nine Wives of Leo Wagonman" |
| 1998 | Profiler | Judge Paramen | "The Root of All Evil" |
| 1998 | Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | Nanny / Maggie | "The Red Eyed Creature" |
| 1998 | Promised Land | Thelma Wicker | "Chasin' the Blues" |
| 1998 | Caroline in the City | Dorothy Baxter | "Caroline and the Big Night" |
| 1999 | Port Charles | Charlene Simpson | TV series |
| 2002 | Judging Amy | Betty | "Boston Terriers from France" |
| 2002 | Passions | Mona | 3 episodes |
| 2002 | Scrubs | Mrs. Warner | "My Case Study" |
| 2003 | The West Wing | Gov. Wade | "Disaster Relief" |
| 2004 | Monk | Edna Coruthers | "Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month" |
| 2005 | Desperate Housewives | Ceal | "Color and Light" |
| 2005 | Cold Case | Nancy Walsh | "A Perfect Day" |
| 2007 | Boston Legal | Georgina Babineaux | "Angel of Death" |
| 2007 | In Case of Emergency | Elizabeth Yablonsky | "The Good, the Bad and the Mob", "Disorder in the Court" |
| 2007 | 'Til Death | Mrs. Wallach | "Performance Anxiety" |
| 2007 | Rules of Engagement | Mrs. Fulford | "Fix-Ups & Downs" |
| 2009 | Ghost Whisperer | Myrna Cooperton | "This Joint's Haunted" |
| 2009 | Saving Grace | Susan | "She's a Lump" |
| 2010 | Outlaw | Dr. Seitz | "In Re: Jessica Davis" |
| 2011 | Dexter | Unnamed Docent | "The Angel of Death" |
| 2012 | GCB | Boofie Marfeson | "Hell Hath No Fury" |
| 2012 | Hot in Cleveland | Mrs. Filsinger | "Rubber Ball" |
| 2012 | Free Agents | Mrs. Claymore | "Nice Guys Finish at Some Point" |
| 2013–14 | Sam & Cat | Nona | Main role |
| 2013–15 | Hart of Dixie | Bettie Breeland | Recurring role |
| 2015 | The Millers | Mrs. Mueller | "Highway to the Manger Zone" |
| 2016−2021 | The Haves and the Have Nots | Pearl | Multiple appearances (seasons 3-8) |
| 2016 | Mistresses | Stephanie | "Back to the Start" |
| 2016–19 | Baskets | Maggie | Recurring cast, 12 episodes |
| 2019 | Bizaardvark | Joyce | Episode: "Eye of the Duckworth" |
| 2019 | Young Sheldon | Dorothy | Episode: "A Parasol and a Hell of an Arm" |