Fran Brill is a graduate of Boston University College of Fine Arts.
10 Facts About Fran Brill
1.
2.
Fran Brill began her career in theater, making her Broadway debut portraying a student leader in Red, White and Maddox.
3.
Fran Brill has been nominated twice for a Drama Desk Award, for What Every Woman Knows and for Knuckle, respectively.
4.
Fran Brill's character struggled with sudden widowhood, and Brill received many condolence letters.
5.
Fran Brill was featured in episodes of The Guiding Light, All My Children, The Edge of Night, Lip Service and Kate and Allie.
6.
In 1975, Fran Brill portrayed first lady Rachel Jackson in First Ladies' Diaries on NBC-TV.
7.
Fran Brill has one known animation credit when she guest starred as Elisa and Eliza Stitch in Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Related searches
The Edge 8.
Fran Brill had no experience as a puppeteer when she joined Sesame Street, for which she has won an Emmy Award, and created Prairie Dawn.
9.
Fran Brill created and puppeteered the Muppets Zoe, Little Bird, and Betty Lou, among others.
10.
In 2014, Fran Brill announced that she was retiring from puppeteering on Sesame Street.