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Mary Kay Place

Mary Kay Place
Mary Kay Place
Born: Sep 23, 1947 in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director,
Active: '70s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: Being John Malkovich, Smooth Talk, The Big Chill
First Major Screen Credit: M*A*S*H: Hot Lips and Empty Arms (1973)
32 Videos for Mary Kay Place
Julie & Julia (2009) Nailed (2001) Portrait of a White Marriage (1988)
City of Ember (2008) The Safety of Objects (2001) Explorers (1985)
Mama's Boy (2007) Being John Malkovich (1999) Smooth Talk (1985)
Lonesome Jim (2005) Girl, Interrupted (1999) Terms of Endearment (1983)
Nine Lives (2004) Pecker (1998) The Big Chill (1983)
Silver City (2004) The Rainmaker (1997) Modern Problems (1981)
Latter Days (2003) Manny & Lo (1996) Private Benjamin (1980)
Sweet Home Alabama (2002) Teresa's Tattoo (1994) More American Graffiti (1979)
Further Tales of the City (2001) Samantha (1992) New York, New York (1977)
Human Nature (2001) Bright Angel (1991) Bound for Glory (1976)
My First Mister (2001) Crazy from the Heart (1991)
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Biography:

University of Tulsa graduate Mary Kay Place hightailed it to Hollywood in hopes of becoming a writer and performer of comedy material. She was hired for 1970s The Tim Conway Comedy Hour as a production assistant to both star Conway and producer Norman Lear. It was Conway who gave her her first on-camera break, while Lear saw to it that Place received her first writing credit on his subsequent All in the Family.

Lear displayed her to even better advantage in the role of senseless, tactless, and eminently lovable would-be C&W star Loretta Haggers on the satirical soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976-1977). She won an Emmy for her work as Loretta, and was later nominated for a Grammy for her spin-off musical album, {^Tonight! At the Capri Lounge...Loretta Haggers}.

She wrote scripts for such TV sitcoms as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Phyllis, and MASH, usually in collaboration with her professional partner (and future Designing Women producer), Linda Bloodworth. In films since 1976's Bound for Glory, Place has only occasionally been given a chance to shine on the big screen; the best of her movie roles include the washout nightclub singer who briefly replaces Liza Minnelli in New York, New York (1976), and the reconstituted child of the '60s who eagerly volunteers for surrogate motherhood in The Big Chill (1983).

Place then continued to work on a variety of projects throughout the 80's and 90's, playing family friend Camille Chersky on the tragically-cancelled dramatic series My So-Called Life, and directing episodes of TV shows like Friends and Arli$$. With the new millennium, Place turned once again towards the big screen, enjoying appearances in films like Being John Malkovich and Girl, Interrupted, but she continued to work in TV as well, with a recurring role on the Showtime series Big Love.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.