![]() ![]() “She reminds me of my mother and I took to her immediately.” “I feel very close to Ethel,” Sternhagen told the Times. In 1979, she appeared in the original Broadway production of “On Golden Pond” in the role of Ethel Thayer that Katharine Hepburn won an Oscar for in the film version. In “Equus,” opposite Anthony Hopkins and Peter Firth on Broadway in 1974, she originated the role of the mother of the troubled youth whose shocking act of violence against horses sets the drama in motion, earning her a Tony nod. Playwright Paul Rudnick on Wednesday called her “a wonderful actress, capable of the highest comedy and deeply moving drama.” She was, he wrote on X, formerly Twitter, “an indelible presence.” I have known women like that, and I can imitate them, I guess,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 2002. ![]() “I must say it’s fun to play these snobby older ladies. More recently, she had a recurring role in “Sex and the City” as Bunny MacDougal, the strong-minded mother-in-law of Charlotte (Kristin Davis), which brought her her third Emmy nomination, and played Kyra Sedgwick’s mother in “The Closer.” Soap opera fans in the 1960s knew her in “Love of Life” as Toni Prentiss Davis, who carried a gun and went mad. The role brought her two Emmy nominations. “She was just impossible and great fun to play,” she told The New York Times. John Carter (Noah Wyle) in the long-running “ER.” On “Cheers” she was the know-it-all mother of postman Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger). TV viewers knew her as played the rich grandmother of Dr. “And my daughter said, `Oh, Mom, you would have been impossible if you were home all the time.′ I’m sure she was right.” ![]() “I remember telling my older daughter when she was about 13 that sometimes I felt terribly guilty that I wasn’t home all the time,” she told a Gale Group reporter. She always said her family came first - commuting from her suburban home in New Rochelle while acting on Broadway - but admitted that touring and movie and TV work sometimes took her away from home. She kept up a flourishing career while at the same time raising six children. ![]()
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