milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Worked as drama teacher at the Milton Academy, Massachusetts
1948 
Stage debut at a Bryn Mawr summer theater in "The Glass Menagerie" and "Angel Street"
1953 
Acted with the Arena Stage in Washington, DC
1955 
Off-Broadway debut, "Thieves' Carnival"
1955 
Broadway debut, "The Skin of Our Teeth"
1955 
TV debut, "The Great Bank Robbery" on "Omnibus" (CBS)
1967 
Played Toni Prentiss Davis on CBS daytime drama "Love of Life"
1967 
Film debut, "Up the Down Staircase"
1974 
Earned critical praise and a Tony Award for her performance in Neil Simon's short-lived "The Good Doctor"
1985 
Co-starred in NBC sitcom "Under One Roof", a revamped version of "Spencer"
1985 
London stage debut, "The Way at Home"
1986 
Played recurring role of Esther Clavin, mother of Cliff (John Ratzenberger) on NBC comedy "Cheers"
1991 
Starred opposite Keith Szarabajka in short-lived CBS drama "Stephen King's Golden Years"
1994 
Played Karen Allen's mother on short-lived CBS family drama "The Road Home"
1995 
Garnered second Tony Award as Aunt Lavinia in the revival of "The Heiress"
1997 
Had recurring role of Millicent Carter on the NBC drama "ER"
1999 
Returned to the NYC stage in "The Exact Center of the Universe"
2000 
Cast as Bunny MacDougal, mother of Trey, Charlotte's first husband on "Sex and the City" (HBO)
2005 
Starred on Broadway in the revival of Edward Albee's "Seascape"
2006 
Played Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick)'s disapproving Southern mother in the TNT series, "The Closer"
2007 
Co-starred in Frank Darabont's thriller "The Mist"
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