1. Katherine Helmond appeared as a guest on several talk and variety shows.
21 Facts About Katherine Helmond
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Katherine Helmond had featured roles in a number of films including Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot, Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits and Brazil, and Garry Marshall's Overboard.
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Katherine Helmond was born on July 5,1929, in Galveston, Texas, to Thelma Louise and Patrick Joseph Katherine Helmond.
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Katherine Helmond had a younger sister, Jo Ann, born three years later, who died in infancy.
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Katherine Helmond was raised by her mother and grandmother, both devout Catholics.
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Katherine Helmond attended a Catholic primary school and appeared in school plays.
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Katherine Helmond's father left the family and her mother eventually remarried in 1937, to Marshall Phillips.
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Katherine Helmond later ran a summer theatre in the Catskills for three seasons and taught acting in university theatre programs.
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Katherine Helmond acted on stage, earning a Tony Award nomination for her performance on Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown.
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Katherine Helmond appeared in such feature films as Family Plot, Time Bandits, Brazil, in which she played the mother of Jonathan Pryce's character, and Overboard.
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Katherine Helmond picked up Emmy nominations for her role as Mona Robinson in Who's the Boss and as Lois Whelan in Everybody Loves Raymond.
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Katherine Helmond received acclaim for her stage performance in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues.
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Katherine Helmond appeared in The Legend of Lizzie Borden as Emma Borden, the title character's sister.
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Katherine Helmond appeared in an episode of the short-lived 1976 CBS adventure series, Spencer's Pilots, starring Gene Evans.
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Katherine Helmond gained prominence as Jessica Tate, the ditzy matriarch of the Tate family in Soap on ABC.
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Katherine Helmond was the voice of Lizzie in the Cars film franchise.
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Katherine Helmond was nominated for Broadway's 1973 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress for Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown.
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Katherine Helmond was nominated for an Emmy for her role on Soap four times in a row as Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
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In 1959, Helmond married George N Martin in New York; they divorced in 1962.
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Katherine Helmond married her second husband, David Richard Christian, in 1969, in New York.
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Katherine Helmond died on February 23,2019, from Alzheimer's disease at her home in Los Angeles, aged 89.