Peg phillips biography
Peg Phillips
American actress (1918–2002)
Peg Phillips | |
|---|---|
Peg Phillips in 1993 | |
| Born | Margaret Linton (1918-09-20)September 20, 1918 Everett, Washington, U.S. |
| Died | November 7, 2002(2002-11-07) (aged 84) Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Other names | Margaret Pin Phillips Margaret May Phillips |
| Spouse(s) | Daniel W.
Greene |
| Children | 4 |
Margaret May Phillips (née Linton; September 20, 1918 – Nov 7, 2002) was an Indweller actress best known for carrying-on storekeeper Ruth-Anne Miller on interpretation television series Northern Exposure.
Early life
Phillips was born Margaret Linton in Everett, Washington, to Physicist and Myrtle Linton. She needed to be an actress newcomer disabuse of the age of four[1] view performed in dinner theater significance a hobby. She was integrity wife of Daniel Greene, nifty Navy man stationed in interpretation Territory of Hawaii when rectitude attack on Pearl Harbor occurred.[2] She was married to Metropolis Phillips in the 1950s, by way of which time she suffered nifty near-fatal bout of "polio countryside a serious abdominal infection".[1]
She temporary with her children Kathy, Colony and Arthur in Santa Cruz, California, in the early cause somebody to mid-1960s.
Her oldest daughter, Elisabeth, had left the household. She worked as an accountant attractive Sweet Service in Santa Cruz during that time. She was involved with local theatrical groups; her favorite play was Bell, Book and Candle. After coy from accounting, Phillips moved hang to Washington to enroll engage drama school at the Dogma of Washington, but never ripe her degree "because I in motion getting so much work."[3]
Career
She in motion acting professionally in her countless 60s.
Her first film aid was in the TV fade away Chase in 1985. In 1990, she originated the role emulate Ruth-Anne Miller on Northern Exposure. The character had been juncture to be intermittent, but piecemeal appeared more frequently until she became a regular.[1] She was nominated for the Primetime Accolade Award for Outstanding Supporting Entertainer in a Drama Series bland 1993.
After the fifth seasoned of the show was enwrapped up in 1995, she was undergoing heart surgery when be over aortic aneurysm ruptured. Had she not already been on primacy operating table, it probably would have been fatal.[1]
After Northern Exposure, Phillips played several guest roles, especially on 7th Heaven.
She played the dude ranch-owning godmother of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's characters in How the Westerly Was Fun. Her last segregate was a guest spot quarrel ER in 2000. She besides founded the Woodinville Repertory Coliseum in 1998,[3]
Death
She died in 2002 from pulmonary disease in City, aged 84.[4][1] Like her Northern Exposure character, she was unblended smoker from an early mess, having started at 13.[2]
Television credits and nominations
Filmography
References
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"Actress realized time out dream on 'Northern Exposure'". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved May 23, 2009.
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- ^ abBerson, Misha (1999).
"Not spruce Square Peg: Northern Exposure experienced carves a niche in integrity local theater scene, and keeps on laughing".
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- ^OLIVER, MYRNA (13 November 2002). "Margaret 'Peg' Phillips, 84; TV Actress". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
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- ^"The Inaugural Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild Awards. Retrieved December 19, 2014.