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Ann Wedgeworth

Ann Wedgeworth
Ann Wedgeworth
Born: Jan 21, 1935 in Abilene, Texas
Occupation: Actor
Active: '70s-'90s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Scarecrow, The Whole Wide World, Citizens Band
First Major Screen Credit: Andy (1965)
14 Videos for Ann Wedgeworth
The Hawk is Dying (2005) Steel Magnolias (1989) No Small Affair (1984)
The Whole Wide World (1996) Far North (1988) Who Murdered Joy Morgan? (1981)
Love and a .45 (1994) A Tiger's Tale (1987) Three's Company: Season 04 (1979)
Hard Promises (1992) Made in Heaven (1987) The Birch Interval (1976)
Miss Firecracker (1989) Sweet Dreams (1985)
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Biography:

Hailing from Texas, actress Anne Wedgeworth first appeared on Broadway in the 1958 production Make a Million. She began making film appearances playing slightly tarnished golddiggers and seductresses in the early '70s. One of Ms. Wedgeworth's best appearances in this vein was in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), in which she portrays the fading baseball groupie who hopes to leech off dying ballplayer Robert De Niro.

For her performance as Joyce Rissley in 1977's Citizen's Band (aka Handle with Care), Wedgeworth won the National Society of Film Critics award. Wedgeworth's TV credits include the same role on two separate '70s soap operas: she was Lahoma Vane Lucas on both Another World and its spin-off, Somerset.

She also had recurring roles on the weekly series Three's Company (appearing in the 1979-80 season as neighbor Lana Shields) and 1982's Filthy Rich (as Bootsie). Ann Wedgeworth came full circle when she played a supporting role in another dead baseball player opus, the made-for-cable Cooperstown (1993).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.