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Beatrice Arthur
  • Birth Name:
    Bernice Frankel
  • Date of Birth:
    May 13, 1922
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Taurus
  • Place of Birth:
    New York City, New York, U.S.
  • Place of Death:
    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  • Date of Death:
    April 25, 2009
  • Sex:
    Female
  • Nationality:
    American
  • Education:

    Linden Hall High School

    Blackstone College for Girls in Blackstone, Virginia

Family

Beatrice Arthur
  • Father:
    Philip
  • Mother:
    Rebecca

Career

Beatrice Arthur

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Beatrice Arthur
  • On June 8, 2008, The Golden Girls was awarded the Pop Culture award at the Sixth Annual TV Land Awards. Arthur accepted the award with co-stars Rue McClanahan and Betty White.
  • She received the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series twice, once in 1977 for Maude and again in 1988 for The Golden Girls.She was inducted into the Academy's Hall of Fame in 2008.
  • Arthur won the American Theatre Wing's Tony Award in 1966 as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance that year as Vera Charles in the original Broadway production of Jerry Herman's musical Mame.
  • In 1971, Arthur was invited by Norman Lear to guest-star on his sitcom All in the Family, as Maude Findlay, the cousin of Edith Bunker.
  • She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1994 portraying the Duchess of Krakenthorp, a speaking role, in Gaetano Donizetti's La fille du régiment.
  • Arthur began her acting career as a member of an off Broadway theater group at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City in the late 1940s.
  • A stage actress both before and after her television success, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Vera Charles in the original cast of Mame (1966).
  • Arthur achieved fame as the title character Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family and Maude, and as Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, winning Emmy Awards for both roles.
  • Was an American actress, comedian and singer whose career spanned seven decades.

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