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 (nee 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. She studied singing with Beverley Peck Johnson.
Personal life
Grimes married Christopher Plummer on August 16, 1956, 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.
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)
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)
References
Other websites
American television actors
American movie actors
American stage actors
1934 births
2016 deaths
Actors from Massachusetts
People from Lynn, Massachusetts