Katherine Helmond

Acting

Born: 1929-07-05 in Galveston, Texas, USA

Biography

Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1929 – February 23, 2019) was an American film, theater, and television actress, and director. Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on Coach and Lois Whelan, the mother of Debra Barone, on Everybody Loves Raymond. She guest starred on a number of TV shows including True Blood, Strong Medicine, Providence, The Love Boat, The Bionic Woman (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bob New hart Show, Mannix, and Gunsmoke. She had supporting roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), and Overboard (1987). She also voiced Lizzie in the Cars trilogy by Disney/Pixar. Some info from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Katherine Helmond

Biography

Known For

Cars

Cars 2

Cars 3

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Brazil

True Blood

Batman: The Animated Series

Time Bandits

Overboard

Everybody Loves Raymond

Family Plot

Mater and the Ghostlight

The Six Million Dollar Man

Who's the Boss?

The Wild Thornberrys

The Bionic Woman

Beethoven's 5th

Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales

The Love Boat

The Love Boat

The Hindenburg

Time Travel Mater

Lady in White

Gunsmoke

The Hospital

The Radiator Springs 500½

Cagney & Lacey

Soap

Coach

The Bob Newhart Show

Mannix

Mannix

Harry's Law

Benson

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

Barnaby Jones

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

A Grandpa for Christmas

Petrocelli

Providence