Nancy Walker

Nancy Walker was an American actress and comedian of stage, screen, and television. She was also a film and television director . During her fivedecade long career, she may be best remembered for her longrunning roles as Mildred on McMillan amp Wife and Ida Morgenstern, who first appeared on several episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and later became a prominent recurring character on the spinoff series Rhoda.

Walker was born in 1922 as Anna Myrtle Swoyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the elder of two daughters of vaudevillian Dewey Barto and Myrtle . Walker and her father both stood 411 . Her younger sister, Betty Lou, also had a musical career. The sisters were raised in a trunk by their father, a vaudeville entertainer with George Mann in the comedic and acrobatic dance act, Barto and Mann.

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