Katherine Helmond
Katherine Helmond
Katherine Marie Helmond is an American film, theater and television actress and director. In her four decades of television, she is known for playing Emily Dickinson on Meeting of Minds, but is best known for her starring role as the ditzy matriarch, Jessica Tate, on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom, Soap, her co-starring role as feisty mother, Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss?, opposite Tony Danza's character. She also played more mothers, Doris Sherman on Coach, and Lois...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth5 July 1928
CityGalveston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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The choice of roles as I grow older gets more and more limited, so if I pin myself to one kind of part I would get in trouble. So, these oddball ladies came along for me to do - I guess Terry Gilliam helped in this respect. I have found them more interesting, flashier and I get more mileage out of them.
Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.