Wilson, Mary Louise

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Wilson, Mary Louise (b. 1936), character actress. The pinch‐faced, wiry player with a distinctive sharp voice has a talent for playing outspoken women. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and educated at Northwestern before making her Manhattan debut in 1959. Wilson was first noticed as the strident Communist Ada in Flora, the Red Menace (1965), followed by many memorable supporting performances, including the cynical writer Nancy Blake in The Women (1973), the stripper Tessie Tura in Gypsy (1974), the obnoxious actress Kitty in The Royal Family (1975), the wisecracking journalist Liz Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story (1980), fashion magazine czarina Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop (1995), and Berlin landlady Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret (1998).

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