1. Elizabeth Key "Bess" Armstrong was born on December 11,1953 and is an American actress.
11 Facts About Bess Armstrong
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Bess Armstrong is known for her roles in the films The Four Seasons, High Road to China, Jaws 3-D, and Nothing in Common.
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Bess Armstrong was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Louise Allen, who taught at Bryn Mawr, and Alexander Bess Armstrong, an English teacher at the Gilman School.
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Bess Armstrong's grandfather was Alexander Armstrong, Attorney General of Maryland.
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Bess Armstrong attended the Bryn Mawr School for Girls and Brown University, from which she graduated with degrees in Latin and Theater.
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Bess Armstrong's professional acting career began in 1975 with the Off-Off Broadway debut, Harmony House.
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In 1978 Bess Armstrong starred opposite Richard Thomas in her first TV-movie Getting Married.
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Bess Armstrong co-starred again with Richard Thomas in a 1981 stage production in Seattle of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, from which a video was made for HBO broadcast that year.
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Bess Armstrong continued to make several films for both the big and small screens in the 1980s, among them High Road to China opposite Tom Selleck; Jaws 3-D with Dennis Quaid; Alan Alda's The Four Seasons; the TV miniseries Lace; and Nothing in Common, starring Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason.
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Bess Armstrong had a recurring role in the Showtime series House of Lies as Julianne Hotschragar.
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Bess Armstrong married John Fiedler, an executive at Columbia Pictures, on April 12,1986.