Tammy Grimes

Tammy Lee Grimes (January 30, 1934 – October 30, 2016) was an American actress and singer. She starred in and won a Tony Award for a 1960 play called The Unsinkable Molly Brown. She also starred in her own television show The Tammy Grimes Show in 1966.

Early life
Grimes was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Eola Willard (née Niles), a naturalist and spiritualist, and Luther Nichols Grimes, an innkeeper, country-club manager, and farmer.

She attended high school at the then all-girls school, Beaver Country Day School, and Stephens College, and then studied acting at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse.[ "Tammy Grimes biography"], Allmusic.com, accessed January 9, 2009. She studied singing with Beverley Peck Johnson.

Personal life
Grimes married Christopher Plummer on August 16, 1956,"Christopher Plummer Weds", The New York Times, August 24, 1956, p.15 with whom she had a daughter, actress Amanda Plummer. They divorced in 1960.

Her second husband was actor Jeremy Slate, who she married in 1966 and divorced a year later. Her third husband was composer Richard Bell, who she married in 1971; the couple remained married until Bell's death in 2005.Hertz, Linda."Tammy Grimes stars in one-woman show at the Plush Room" , sfgate.com, October 28, 2007.

Death
Grimes died on October 30, 2016, in Englewood, New Jersey, aged 82 from natural causes. Her survivors include her brother, Nick, and her daughter Amanda.

Work

Filmography
 Three Bites of the Apple (1967) - Angela Sparrow
 Arthur? Arthur! (1969) - Lady Joan Mellon
 Play It as It Lays (1972) - Helene
 The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973, TV Movie) - Mrs. Pinder
 The Borrowers (1973, TV Movie) - Homily Clock
 Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978) - Audrey Van Santen
 The Runner Stumbles (1979) - Erna Webber
 Can't Stop the Music (1980) - Sydne Channing
 The Last Unicorn (1982) - Molly Grue (voice)
 The Stuff (1985) - Special Guest Star in Stuff Commercial
 America (1986) - Joy Hackley
 Mr. North (1988) - Sarah Baily-Lewis
 Slaves of New York (1989) - Georgette
 Backstreet Justice (1994) - Mrs. Finnegan
 A Modern Affair (1995) - Dr. Gresham
 Trouble on the Corner (1997) - Mrs. K
 High Art (1998) - Vera

Stage
 The Littlest Revue (1956)The Littlest Revue Broadway" ibdb.com, accessed November 3, 2016
 Look After Lulu (1959)
 The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960)
 Rattle of a Simple Man (1963)
 High Spirits (1964)
 The Only Game in Town (1968)
 Private Lives (revival) (1969)
 A Musical Jubilee (1975)
 California Suite (1976)
 Tartuffe (revival)(1977)
 Trick (1979)
 42nd Street (1980)
 Sunset (1983)
 Orpheus Descending (revival) (1989)
 Wit & Wisdom (2003)

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Category:American television actors
Category:American movie actors
Category:American stage actors
Category:1934 births
Category:2016 deaths
Category:Actors from Massachusetts
Category:People from Lynn, Massachusetts