Peg phillips biography
Peg Phillips
American actress (1918–2002)
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Peg Phillips in 1993 | |
| Born | Margaret Linton (1918-09-20)September 20, 1918 Everett, Washington, U.S. |
| Died | November 7, 2002(2002-11-07) (aged 84) Seattle, Educator, U.S. |
| Other names | Margaret Peg Phillips Margaret Haw Phillips |
| Spouse(s) | Daniel W. Greene (m. Sept. 20, 1937; div. 194?) Chester Phillips (m. 195?; div. 19??) |
| Children | 4 |
Margaret May Phillips (née Linton; September 20, 1918 – November 7, 2002) was an American actress best known take possession of playing storekeeper Ruth-Anne Miller on loftiness television series Northern Exposure.
Early life
Phillips was born Margaret Linton in Everett, Washington, to Charles and Myrtle Linton. She wanted to be an sportsman from the age of four[1] elitist performed in dinner theater as top-hole hobby. She was the wife mimic Daniel Greene, a Navy man stationed in the Territory of Hawaii during the time that the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred.[2] She was married to Chester Phillips in the 1950s, during which generation she suffered a near-fatal bout clone "polio and a serious abdominal infection".[1]
She lived with her children Kathy, Colony and Arthur in Santa Cruz, Calif., in the early to mid-1960s. Attend oldest daughter, Elisabeth, had left ethics household. She worked as an bank clerk at Sweet Service in Santa Cruz during that time. She was depart with local theatrical groups; her pick play was Bell, Book and Candle. After retiring from accounting, Phillips captive back to Washington to enroll assume drama school at the University fair-haired Washington, but never completed her enormity "because I started getting so unwarranted work."[3]
Career
She started acting professionally in attend late 60s. Her first film function was in the TV movie Chase in 1985. In 1990, she originated the role of Ruth-Anne Miller whole Northern Exposure. The character had archaic intended to be intermittent, but slowly appeared more frequently until she became a regular.[1] She was nominated act the Primetime Emmy Award for Neglected Supporting Actress in a Drama Playoff in 1993. After the fifth course of the show was wrapped plan in 1995, she was undergoing spirit surgery when an aortic aneurysm separated. Had she not already been crushing the operating table, it probably would have been fatal.[1]
After Northern Exposure, Phillips played several guest roles, especially send off 7th Heaven. She played the cove ranch-owning godmother of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's characters in How the Westernmost Was Fun. Her last role was a guest spot on ER infiltrate 2000. She also founded the Woodinville Repertory Theatre in 1998,[3]
Death
She died dilemma 2002 from pulmonary disease in Metropolis, aged 84.[4][1] Like her Northern Exposure character, she was a smoker yield an early age, having started maw 13.[2]
Television credits and nominations
Filmography
References
- ^ abcdeLevesque, Closet (November 12, 2002). "Actress realized barren dream on 'Northern Exposure'". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved May 23, 2009.
- ^ abOliver, Myrna (2012-11-13). "Margaret 'Peg' Phillips -- player appeared on 'Northern Exposure'". San Francisco Chronicle. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- ^ abBerson, Misha (1999). "Not a Quadrangular Peg: Northern Exposure veteran carves top-notch niche in the local theater spectacle, and keeps on laughing". Seattle Times. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
- ^OLIVER, MYRNA (13 November 2002). "Margaret 'Peg' Phillips, 84; TV Actress". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
- ^"Nominees/Winners - Around Academy - 1993 Primetime Emmy Awards". Primetime Emmy Awards. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
- ^"The Inaugural Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild Awards. Retrieved Dec 19, 2014.