Jean Stapleton was an American character actress of stage, television and film.
Stapleton was born on January 19, 1923 in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of Marie A. , an opera singer, and Joseph E. Murray, a billboard advertising salesman. At ageshe began her career in 1941 in summer stock theatre and made her New York debut in the OffBroadway play American Gothic.
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