Actress. She is best remembered for her recurring portrayal of Jane Hogen, the companion of the prestigious Alexandra Spaulding, in the soap opera "Guiding Light." After beginning her career in local theater in her native St. Paul, Minnesota, starring in such productions as "Once Upon a Mattress," "Dinner at Eight," "A Murder is Announced," and "The Importance of Being Ernest," she relocated to California in the late 1970s to begin a career in film and television making her official debut in the made for TV movie "Second Case" (1980). For the next 3 decades, she went onto enjoy a successful career as a character actress often portraying wives, mothers, old maids, neighbors, secretaries, school teachers, nurses, librarians, and housekeepers in such sitcoms as "Full House," "Mama's Family," "Frank's Place," "Murphy Brown," "Day by Day," "Peter Gunn," "Murphy Brown," "Quantum Leap," "Murder, She Wrote," "Life Goes On," "Dear John,"His & Hers." "Empty Nest," "Who's the Boss?," "Saved by the Bell," "Night Court," "In The Heat of the Night," "Davis Rules," "The Golden Palace," "Coach," "Blossom," "The 5 Mrs. Buchanans," "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," "Sister, Sister," "ER," "Step by Step," "Dave's World," "The Secret World of Alex Mack," "Suddenly Susan," "Family Matters," "Sex and the City," "General Hospital," "Providence," "NCIS," "Nip Tuck," "The Middleman," "Hawaii Five-O," "The Middle," "Bones," "Desperate Housewives," "2 Broke Girls," "1600 Penn," "The Blacklist," "Will and Grace," and "Mom". In motion pictures, she had major roles in such films as "Easy Money" (1983), "Troop Beverly Hills" (1989), "Virtual Signs" (1990), "Defending Your Life" (1991), "Basic Instinct" (1992), "Holy Matrimony" (1994), "Speechless" (1994), "A Walk in the Clouds" (1995), "The Crucible" (1996), "Traffic" (1999), "Hometown Legend" (2002), "Bruce Almighty" (2003), "13 Going on 30" (2004), "Room 6" (2006), "Because I Said So" (2006). "Moving McAllister" (2007), "Bottle Shock" (2008), "Arcadia" (2012), "Earth to Echo" (2014), "Nina" (2016), and "Chain of Death" (2019). She passed away from cancer complications following the filming of her last acting role in "Saving Paradise" (2020).