Lynn Milgrim (born March 17, 1944) [1] is an American film, television, and stage actress. [2] She is best known as an accomplished stage actress and has been in numerous Broadway, national, and regional productions. [3] [4] [5] [6] She has also appeared in many feature films, television series, and television movies. [7] [8]
Milgrim was born on March 17, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] She graduated from Swarthmore [9] and received her master's degree in elementary education from Harvard in 1965. [10] While she taught sixth grade in Arlington, Massachusetts, she worked nights at Loeb Drama Center. [11]
Broadway roles include: Bedroom Farce as Jan, [12] Otherwise Engaged as Davina, [1] [12] and Charley's Aunt as Amy Spettigue. [12]
Other stage roles include: What Would Jeanne Moreau Do? by Elinor Jones; [13] WIN/LOSE/DRAW at the Provincetown Playhouse, with The New York Times calling her a "delightful actress"; [14] Lynne Meadows's Close of Play; playing Helena (Staff) in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer's Night Dream at the Actors Theatre of Louisville; playing Celimene in Moliere's play The Misanthrope in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production at the Adams Memorial Theatre Main Stage at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts with Emery Battis; as Mrs. Yang in Bertolt Brecht's play The Good Woman of Setzuan, also at Williams College; as Geraldine Barclay in Joe Orton's play What The Butler Saw, also at Williams College; and playing the mother-in-law in the Bertolt Brecht play The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California; and many more. [15]
More recent productions include: Samuel D. Hunter's Rest and Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley, [16] both also at South Coast Repertory; [17] [18] a revival of Joseph Kesserling’s 1941 Broadway classic Arsenic And Old Lace at La Mirada Theatre in Los Angeles; [19] [20] [21] Christine Deitne's Diana of Dobson's ; [22] [23] Eastern Standard at the Coast Playhouse; [24] George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion at the Pasadena Playhouse, [21] with her performance called "excellent"; [25] Hedda Gabler; [26] and A Doll's House, Part 2. [27] [28]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | The Doctors | Vanessa | ||
| 1978 | Another World | Susan Shearer | 4 episodes | |
| 1986 | The Equalizer | Mrs. Lenox | Episode: "Unnatural Causes" | |
| 1999 | Rugrats | Corrine | Voice 1 episode | |
| Everybody Loves Raymond | Cecily | 1 episode | ||
| 2011 | Franklin & Bash | Nana | 2 episodes | |
| 2011 - 2012 | Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness | Qiong Qi (voice) Female Pig (voice) | [7] [8] | |
| 2012 | Winx Club | The Ancestral Spirit of Nature | 1 episode | |
| Southland | Mary | 1 episode | ||
| 2017 | Chicago Med | Sylvia Roseblatt | 1 episode | |
| 2018 | The Fosters | Beth Green | 1 episode |
She has had recurring roles and made guest appearances on major TV shows such as The Doctors, The Wonder Years , Life Goes On , Mama's Family , Knots Landing , Who's the Boss? , Highway to Heaven , CBS Summer Playhouse , The Equalizer , 9-1-1
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Employee of the Month | Mrs. Chapman | [7] [8] |
Her film credits include Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983), two Cybill Shepherd movies ( Telling Secrets (1993) (TV) and Baby Brokers (1994)
She is married to fellow actor H. Richard Greene, and they have a daughter. [9] The two had recurring roles as Jim and Evelyn Cooper, Winnie Cooper's parents, on The Wonder Years .