Grace Zabriskie is known for her recurring roles on such shows as Seinfeld, Charmed, and Ray Donovan.
10 Facts About Grace Zabriskie
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Grace Zabriskie's mother had distant Polish and Dutch ancestry, and was a relative of James Zabriskie, a 19th-century railroad industrialist and early pioneer of California.
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Grace Zabriskie's father owned the famous French quarter gay bar Cafe Lafitte in Exile.
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Grace Zabriskie played the nanny in The Private Eyes, Debra Winger's mother in An Officer and a Gentleman, Heather Langenkamp's mother in Nickel Mountain, and Paul Le Mat's mother in The Burning Bed.
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Grace Zabriskie had a small but crucial part in the fifth season finale of Knots Landing.
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Grace Zabriskie appeared in 1989's Drugstore Cowboy and as the ill-fated orphanage owner Grace Poole in Child's Play 2.
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Grace Zabriskie made a brief but memorable appearance in the episode "S'ain't Valentine's" on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens, as the emotionally disturbed and alcoholic mother of Spence Olchin.
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Grace Zabriskie appeared twice in Aaron Spelling's series Charmed as "The Crone".
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Grace Zabriskie appeared in the 2004 American remake of The Grudge, in which she played a senile elderly woman sensitive to the paranormal occurrences in her home.
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Grace Zabriskie has two daughters: Helen, who became an actress and Marion Lane, a painter.