Kate Wilkinson (actress)
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Kate Wilkinson | |
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 Kate Wilkinson in a screencap from Another World | |
| Born | October 25, 1916 |
| Died | February 9, 1993 (aged 76) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
Kate Wilkinson (October 25, 1916 – February 9, 1993) was an American stage, film and television actress.[1]
She is best known to TV audiences for her roles as Viola Stapleton in the CBS soap opera Guiding Light,[2] a role she played from 1976 to 1981, and Clara Hudson on the NBC soap opera Another World, which she played from 1987 to 1989.
In addition to making many guest appearances in supporting roles on television as well as a number of films, she also was a regular on theatre. Among her stage roles were Mrs. McCollough in 1972-73's Last of Mrs. Lincoln (she also reprised her role in the 1976 film version), and Clairee in the original Off-Broadway production of Steel Magnolias in 1987 (a role Olympia Dukakis would play in the film version). In 1980, she originated the role of Libby in The Whales of August, which Bette Davis played in the film version. Her last role was a 1990 guest appearance on Law & Order.
Death
Kate Wilkinson died from bone cancer in 1993, aged 76.[1]
Filmography
- Edge of Night - Mrs. Perkins (1966)
- Love is a Many Splendored Thing - Sister Irene (1973)
- Beyond the Horizon - Kate Mayo (1973)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974)
- First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington - Mrs. Chamberlayne (1975)
- Guiding Light - Viola Stapleton (November 1976 - 1981)
- Last of Mrs. Lincoln - Mrs. McCollough (1976)
- Diary of the Dead - Ethel Dean (1976)
- Another World - Mrs. Franklin (1983); Alice Nixon (1986); Clara Hudson (1987–1989)
- A Mistaken Charity (made-for-TV movie) - Charlotte (1986)
- See You in the Morning - Aunt Matilda (1989)
- Law & Order: (episode: "Prescription for Death") - Grey-haired lady (1990)