Mary Gross

Mary Margaret Gross (born 25 March 1953) is an American comedian and actress. Gross is best known as a cast member on NBC's long-running sketch show, Saturday Night Live, starting in its seventh (1981-1982) season, where Dick Ebersol was hired to replace Jean Doumanian. Like most cast members at the time, Gross was often overshadowed by Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo, who were considered the highlight of the much-maligned sixth season and were the main draw during SNL's shaky years between 1980 and 1984, though Gross's screentime was somewhat made frequent when Christine Ebersole was replaced in season eight with a pre-Seinfeld Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In her first season (season seven), Gross was a Weekend Update anchor paired with Brian Doyle-Murray (and occasionally switched out with Christine Ebersole), but that got dropped during the next season when Weekend Update went from being called SNL Newsbreak to Saturday Night News and Brad Hall was chosen as the anchor. Gross's recurring characters include Alfalfa from the SNL take on The Little Rascals (and the one who attempted to assassinate Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat), Celeste (a sexually-repressed wife married to an equally repressed husband played by Tim Kazurinsky), Chi Chi (a Latina talk show host with Julia-Louis Dreyfus as her co-host, Consuela), and Siobhan Cahill (a Irishwoman who reports on all things Irish-related). Her celebrity impressions included Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Brooke Shields, Ann Landers, Lena Horne, Leslie Uggams, Mary Hart from Entertainment Tonight, Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Thatcher, Paul Reubens (as his Pee-Wee Herman character), and Nancy Reagan.
Post-SNL, Gross has done voicework for such cartoons as Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, The Angry Beavers, Animaniacs, and Hey Arnold!, as well as live-action roles in Murphy Brown (the 1990s version, not the 2010s reboot), Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Six Feet Under, Malcolm and the Middle, The New Adventures of Old Christine, A Mighty Wind, Troop Beverly Hills, General Hospital, and Californication.
== Looney Roles ==
* Mrs. Ka-Boom - Animaniacs
 
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