Tony Award Featured Actress in a Play "The Heiress" 1995
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play "The Good Doctor" 1975
Tony Award Featured Actress in a Play "The Good Doctor" 1974
OBIE Award Distinguished Performance "The Room" and "A Slight Ache" 1965
OBIE Award Distinguished Performance (Actress) "The Admirable Bashville" 1956
2007 Co-starred in Frank Darabont's thriller "The Mist"
2006 Played Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick)'s disapproving Southern mother in the TNT series, "The Closer"
2005 Starred on Broadway in the revival of Edward Albee's "Seascape"
2000 - 2002 Cast as Bunny MacDougal, mother of Trey, Charlotte's first husband on "Sex and the City" (HBO)
1999 Returned to the NYC stage in "The Exact Center of the Universe"
1997 - 2003 Had recurring role of Millicent Carter on the NBC drama "ER"
1995 Garnered second Tony Award as Aunt Lavinia in the revival of "The Heiress"
1994 Played Karen Allen's mother on short-lived CBS family drama "The Road Home"
1991 Starred opposite Keith Szarabajka in short-lived CBS drama "Stephen King's Golden Years"
1986 - 1993 Played recurring role of Esther Clavin, mother of Cliff (John Ratzenberger) on NBC comedy "Cheers"
1985 Co-starred in NBC sitcom "Under One Roof", a revamped version of "Spencer"
1985 London stage debut, "The Way at Home"
1974 Earned critical praise and a Tony Award for her performance in Neil Simon's short-lived "The Good Doctor"
1967 Film debut, "Up the Down Staircase"
1967 Played Toni Prentiss Davis on CBS daytime drama "Love of Life"
1955 Off-Broadway debut, "Thieves' Carnival"
1955 Broadway debut, "The Skin of Our Teeth"
1955 TV debut, "The Great Bank Robbery" on "Omnibus" (CBS)
1953 - 1954 Acted with the Arena Stage in Washington, DC
1948 Stage debut at a Bryn Mawr summer theater in "The Glass Menagerie" and "Angel Street"
Worked as drama teacher at the Milton Academy, Massachusetts
