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- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Frances Lee McCain was born on July 28, 1944 in York, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for Back to the Future (1985), Gremlins (1984) and Footloose (1984).
- Spouse
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- In the 1980s and '90s, often played the mother of one of the main teen characters in movies.
- Graduated from Central School of Speech and Drama in London in 1969.
- Ripon College alumna.
- Attended Ripon College from 1962 to 1966 and majored in philosophy, but also appeared in dramas there, including the title role of Antigone and Rosalind in "As You Like It." She received the Ripon College Distinguished Alumni Award in 1984 and an Honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts in 1988.
- Played Stella to Faye Dunaway's Blanche DuBois and Jon Voight's Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1970s Los Angeles.
- Part of ACT's acting company from 1970-1972; later returned as an actor in 1986 and joined the conservatory faculty as a core member through 1992. Just recently she appeared in their production of Buried Child."
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