- Born
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- Birth nameElizabeth Welter Wilson
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Elizabeth Wilson was born April 4, 1921, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Marie Ethel and Dunning Wilson. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Elizabeth's film debut was in Notorious (1946) in an uncredited role. She later appeared in Patterns (1956), and her performance was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Film. With over 70 film and television appearances, we should acknowledge her work in The Graduate (1967), 9 to 5 (1980), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), The Addams Family (1991), and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).
- IMDb mini biography by: tony.r.vario@gmail.com
- ParentsHenry Dunning WilsonMarie Ethel Welter
- RelativesMary Muir Wilson(Sibling)Charles Dunning Wilson(Sibling)
- Frequently cast in Mike Nichols films.
- Often played loving mothers and sympathetic wives, but never married in real life.
- Graduate of the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She also traveled with the fabled Barter Theatre of Virginia during the same season as another then-unknown, Ernest Borgnine, who also doubled as the bus driver for the troupe.
- Director Mike Nichols cast her in his films The Graduate (1967), Catch-22 (1970), The Day of the Dolphin (1973), and Regarding Henry (1991) and in "Uncle Vanya" (1973) on Broadway.
- Received the 1972 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones."
- Upon her death, she was buried at Oakhill Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her parents.
- When my grandfather found out I wanted to be an actress, he said, "How will she make a living - on her back?" Because in the 1930s and '40s, actors were considered whores and prostitutes.
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