Biography
Angela Paton was an American stage, film and television actress and theatre director. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1930. She was a veteran of the American Conservatory Theater and, after leaving in the early 1970s, co-founded and ran the Berkeley Stage Company with her husband, theatre director Robert Goldsby.
Paton appeared in numerous films, including as Mrs. Lancaster in Groundhog Day (1993), Faye in The Wedding Singer (1998) and Grandma in American Wedding (2003). She had guest and recurring roles in television series such as Grey's Anatomy, My Name Is Earl and The X-Files. She died in Oakland, California, in 2016.
