Lorraine Gary
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Lorraine Gottfried (born August 16, 1937), better known by her stage name Lorraine Gary, is an American former actress, best known for her role as Ellen Brody in the Jaws film series. She also appeared in 1941 and Car Wash.
Gary was born as Lorraine Gottfried in Forest Hills, Queens, to Betty and George Gottfried, an entertainment business manager.
At an early age, she moved with her family to Los Angeles, California, where she was raised. At age 16, she won a best actress award in a competition at the prestigious Pasadena Playhouse. She was offered a scholarship to enroll at the Pasadena Playhouse, but declined and attended Columbia University[1] as a political science major instead.
Career
A life member of the Actors Studio,[2] Gary began her acting career in the late 1960s doing guest appearances on several popular TV shows. These include Night Gallery, Dragnet 1968, in an episode entitled “The Big Shipment”, McCloud, The Marcus-Nelson Murders (the pilot for Kojak), and The F.B.I.. She began her first major acting role when she was a guest star on seven episodes of the TV series Ironside, among them “Tom Dayton Is Loose Among Us”, in which she played the substitute librarian Miss Kirk, who pushes the unstable Tom Dayton too hard, and “In Search of an Artist”, as a woman with a drinking problem who may have been involved in a murder.[citation needed]
In addition to her work as an actress, Gary owned New Hope Productions, a company that produced television programs.[3]
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