Lynn Milgrim (born March 17, 1944) is an American film, television, and stage

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. She is best known as an accomplished

stage actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

and has been in numerous

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, national, and regional productions. She has also appeared in many feature films, television series, and television movies.

Early years

Milgrim was born on March 17, 1944, in

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. She graduated from Swarthmore and received her master's degree in elementary education from Harvard in 1965. While she taught sixth grade in

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, she worked nights at Loeb Drama Center.

Career

Stage roles

roles include: ''

Bedroom Farce A bedroom farce or sex farce is a type of light comedy focusing on the sexual pairings and recombinations of characters as they move through improbable plots and slamming doors. Overview Georges Feydeau plays, presented in Paris in the 1890s, a ...

'' as Jan, '' Otherwise Engaged'' as Davina, and ''

Charley's Aunt ''Charley's Aunt'' is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. The story centres on Lord Fancourt Babberley, an undergraduate whose friends Jack and Charley persuade him to impersonate the latter's aunt. The complications of the plot in ...

'' as Amy Spettigue. Other stage roles include: ''What Would Jeanne Moreau Do?'' by Elinor Jones;'' WIN/LOSE/DRAW'' at the Provincetown Playhouse, with ''

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'' calling her a "delightful actress"; Lynne Meadows's ''Close of Play''; playing Helena (Staff) in

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's play ''

A Midsummer's Night Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a Comedy (drama), comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One s ...

'' at the Actors Theatre of Louisville; playing Celimene in Moliere's play ''

The Misanthrope ''The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover'' (; ) is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière. It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris by ...

'' in the

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production at the Adams Memorial Theatre Main Stage at

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in Williamstown, Massachusetts with

Emery Battis Emery Battis (born May 30, 1915, in Arlington, Massachusetts – September 20, 2011, in Marlborough, Massachusetts) was an American stage actor, author, and professor of history with an acting career that spanned almost 80 years (from 1933 – 2 ...

; as Mrs. Yang in

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a p ...

's play '' The Good Woman of Setzuan,'' also at Williams College; as Geraldine Barclay in

Joe Orton John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his murder in 1967 committed by his partner, was short but highly i ...

's play '' What The Butler Saw,'' also at Williams College; and playing the mother-in-law in the

play ''

The Caucasian Chalk Circle ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' () is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than the baby's wealthy b ...

'' at the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California; and many more. More recent productions include: Samuel D. Hunter's ''Rest and

Outside Mullingar ''Outside Mullingar'' is a play by John Patrick Shanley, which ran on Broadway in 2014. Production ''Outside Mullingar'' premiered on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in a Manhattan Theatre Club production on January 3, 2014 (previ ...

'' by

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, both also at South Coast Repertory; a revival of Joseph Kesserling’s 1941 Broadway classic ''Arsenic And Old Lace'' at La Mirada Theatre in Los Angeles; Christine Deitne's ''

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''; '' Eastern Standard'' at the Coast Playhouse;

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's ''Pygmalion'' at the Pasadena Playhouse, with her performance called "excellent"; ''Hedda Gabler''; and ''A Doll's House, Part 2''.

Television roles

She has had recurring roles and made guest appearances on major TV shows such as ''The Doctors'',''

The Wonder Years ''The Wonder Years'' is an American coming-of-age comedy television series created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black. It ran on ABC from January 31, 1988, until May 12, 1993. The series premiered immediately after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl X ...

'', '' Life Goes On'', ''

Mama's Family ''Mama's Family'' is an American sitcom television series starring Vicki Lawrence as Thelma Harper, Mama (Thelma Harper). The series is a spin-off of a recurring series of comedy sketches called "The Family (sketch), The Family" featured on ''T ...

'', ''

Knots Landing ''Knots Landing'' is an American primetime television soap opera that aired on CBS from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993. A spin-off of ''Dallas (TV series), Dallas'', it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles and initially cente ...

'', ''

Who's the Boss? ''Who's the Boss?'' is an American sitcom television series created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, that aired on ABC from September 20, 1984, to April 25, 1992, with a total of 196 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons. It was produce ...

'', ''

Highway to Heaven ''Highway to Heaven'' is an American fantasy drama television series that ran on NBC from September 19, 1984, to August 4, 1989. The series starred its creator and co-director Michael Landon as Jonathan Smith, an angel sent to Earth to help peo ...

'', ''

CBS Summer Playhouse ''CBS Summer Playhouse'' is an American anthology series that ran from June 12, 1987 to August 22, 1989 on CBS. It aired unsold television pilots during the summer season. Overview Tim Reid and Daphne Maxwell Reid acted as hosts during th ...

'', ''

The Equalizer ''The Equalizer'' is an American vigilante action thriller multimedia franchise initially co-created by Michael Sloan and Richard Lindheim. It originated with a CBS television series from 1985 to 1989 starring Edward Woodward. The concept ...

'', ''

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Film roles

Her film credits include ''

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon ''Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon'' is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Otto Preminger. The film is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Marjorie Kellogg. Plot Junie Moon is a girl whose face was scarred in ...

'' (1970), '' Enormous Changes at the Last Minute'' (1983), two

Cybill Shepherd Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress, singer and former model. Her film debut and breakthrough role came as Jacy Farrow in Peter Bogdanovich's coming-of-age drama '' The Last Picture Show'' (1971) alongside Jef ...

movies (''

Telling Secrets ''Telling Secrets'' (a.k.a. ''Contract for Murder'') is a 1993 American television film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky and starring Cybill Shepherd. It is based on the true story of Joy Aylor, who plots the murder of her adulterous husband's mist ...

'' (1993) (TV) and ''

Baby Brokers ''Baby Brokers'' is a 1994 American true-life-event drama film directed by Mimi Leder and written by Susan Nanus. The film stars Cybill Shepherd, Nina Siemaszko, Anna Maria Horsford, Jeffrey Nordling, Tom O'Brien, Joseph Maher and Shirley Knigh ...

'' (1994)

Personal life

She is married to fellow actor H. Richard Greene, and they have a daughter. The two had recurring roles as Jim and Evelyn Cooper, Winnie Cooper's parents, on ''

''.

References

External links

*
Lynn Milgram
on

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