Biography
Frances Sternhagen was an American actress who worked on Broadway and off-Broadway, in film and on television from the 1950s until the 2010s. She was born in Washington, D.C., and made her Broadway debut in 1955.
She won two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play, for Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor in 1974 and the 1995 revival of The Heiress. Sternhagen received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her television work. Her film roles include Virginia in Misery (1990), Irene Reppler in The Mist (2007) and Irma Rombauer in Julie & Julia (2009). On television she appeared as Esther Clavin in Cheers, Millicent Carter in ER and Bunny MacDougal in Sex and the City.
