37 Facts About Ruth Buzzi

Ruth Ann Buzzi is an American actress and comedian.

Ruth Buzzi has appeared on stage, in films, and on television.

Ruth Buzzi was raised in the village of Wequetequock in the town of Stonington, Connecticut, in a rock house overlooking the ocean at Wequetequock Cove, where her father owned Buzzi Memorials, a business that her older brother Harold operated until his retirement in 2013.

Ruth Buzzi attended Stonington High School, where she was head cheerleader.

Ruth Buzzi moved to New York City after graduation and was hired immediately for a lead role in an off-Broadway musical revue, the first of 19 in which she performed around the East Coast.

Ruth Buzzi worked alongside other young performers just beginning their careers at the time, including Barbra Streisand, Joan Rivers, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, and Carol Burnett.

Ruth Buzzi performed in New York musical variety shows, and she made numerous television commercials, some of which won national awards including the Clio Award.

Ruth Buzzi performed as "Shakundala the Silent", a bumbling magician's assistant to her comedy partner Dom DeLuise, who played "Dominic the Great".

Ruth Buzzi was a member of the regular repertory company on the CBS variety show The Entertainers.

Ruth Buzzi had several small roles, including "the Singing Fairy".

In 1967, Ruth Buzzi appeared in all eight episodes of The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, a variety series starring Steve Allen.

Ruth Buzzi was the only featured player to appear in every episode of Laugh-In including the pilot for the show and the Laugh-In television special.

Ruth Buzzi first used this look when she played Agnes Gooch in a school production of Auntie Mame.

Ruth Buzzi was featured as Gladys in many of the Dean Martin Roasts from the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, ranting about notable roastees including Muhammad Ali, Frank Sinatra, and Lucille Ball.

Ruth Buzzi was featured as a semi-regular on the comedy That Girl as Marlo Thomas's friend Margie "Pete" Peterson.

Ruth Buzzi starred with Jim Nabors as the time-traveling androids Fi and Fum in The Lost Saucer produced by Sid and Marty Krofft which aired from September 11,1975, until September 2,1976.

Ruth Buzzi guest-starred as Chloe, the wife of phone company worker Henry Beesmeyer on Alice in 1981.

Ruth Buzzi was a guest star on Down to Earth in 1985.

Ruth Buzzi appeared occasionally on game shows and was a celebrity judge on The Gong Show.

Ruth Buzzi appeared on Lucille Ball's last comedy Life with Lucy as Mrs Wilcox in the episode "Lucy Makes a Hit with John Ritter".

Ruth Buzzi appeared eight times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and has made more than 200 other television guest appearances.

Ruth Buzzi voiced the character Nose Marie in the Hanna-Barbera animated series Pound Puppies.

Ruth Buzzi voiced Mama Bear in Berenstain Bears and performed hundreds of guest voices for many other cartoon series, including The Smurfs, The Angry Beavers, and Mo Willems' Sheep in the Big City.

Ruth Buzzi joined the cast of Sesame Street in 1993 as shopkeeper, Ruthie, as part of the Around the Corner set expansion.

Ruth Buzzi voiced Suzie Kabloozie and her pet cat, Feff in animated inserts that were shown on the show from 1994 to 2008.

Ruth Buzzi reprised her role as Ruthie in Sesame Street Stays Up Late, Sesame Street's All Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever and Elmopalooza as well as the direct-to-video production, The Best of Elmo and the feature film The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.

Ruth Buzzi performed in numerous national television commercials, most notably for Clorox 2, Clairol, Ban roll-on deodorant, and Santa Anita Park, and she voiced Granny Goodwitch in television commercials for Sugar Crisp cereal.

Ruth Buzzi originated the Goodwitch character in the animated TV series Linus the Lionhearted.

Ruth Buzzi appeared in the "Weird Al" Yankovic video "Gump" and similarly appeared in other music videos with the B-52's and The Presidents of the United States of America.

Ruth Buzzi appeared on Saved by the Bell, The Muppet Show, two episodes of You Can't Do That on Television in 1979, and numerous other television shows.

Ruth Buzzi played the role of the eccentric Nurse Kravitz on NBC's daytime soap opera Passions.

Ruth Buzzi had a successful nightclub act across the United States, including at Las Vegas's Sahara and at the MGM Grand hotels.

Ruth Buzzi had featured roles in more than 20 films, including Chu Chu and the Philly Flash, Freaky Friday, The North Avenue Irregulars, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, The Villain, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, and a number of westerns for the European market known as the Lucky Luke series in which she plays the mother of the Dalton Gang.

Ruth Buzzi is a charter member of the Pasadena Playhouse Alumni Association.

Ruth Buzzi supports numerous children's charities, including Make a Wish Foundation, the Special Olympics, The Thalians, St Jude's Hospital, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and she is a children's art summer camp sponsor through Dallas Museum of Biblical Art.

Ruth Buzzi is active in fund raising for the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch in Medina, Texas and other animal causes.

On July 19,2022, It was reported that Ruth Buzzi was showing improvement after suffering a series of strokes.