1. Margaret Ann "Peggy" McCay was an American actress whose career began in 1949, and includes theatre, television, soap operas, and feature films.
14 Facts About Peggy McCay
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Peggy McCay was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael J McCay.
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Peggy McCay attended Saint Walburga's Convent School and Barnard College, graduating from the latter in June 1949.
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Peggy McCay studied with Lee Strasberg in New York and later helped to set up Strasberg's West Coast studio.
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Peggy McCay accepted her first major role as the heroine Vanessa Dale on the soap opera Love of Life, which premiered in 1951.
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Peggy McCay appeared as a supporting character in the Maverick episode titled "Kiz" starring Roger Moore and Kathleen Crowley.
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Peggy McCay appeared in four feature films in the late 1950s before landing a lead role in 1962 in the ABC television series Room for One More as Anna Perrott Rose, who had written a memoir about her family life as a foster mother; Andrew Duggan portrayed the part that Cary Grant had played in the original movie version a decade earlier.
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In 1962, Peggy McCay starred in the feature film Lad, A Dog.
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Peggy McCay played Sally Mitchell opposite Robert Sterling and MacDonald Carey in "House Guest" on the Alfred Hitchcock Hour Season 1 Episode 8 which aired on November 7,1962.
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Peggy McCay guest-starred on ABC's The Roaring 20s, The Greatest Show on Earth, and Jason Evers's Channing.
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Peggy McCay appeared in a 1975 television movie, John O'Hara's Gibbsville, and was a regular in the cast of the short-lived 1976 series Gibbsville.
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In 1991, Peggy McCay was awarded a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for The Trials of Rosie O'Neill.
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On October 7,2018, Peggy McCay died from natural causes at her home in Los Angeles.
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Peggy McCay never married nor had children, leaving no immediate survivors.