I’m not Stockard Channing. Take 2 DQs.
BTW, my wife got me the Avengers on DVD. I believe I’ve identified you in the scene at the 39 minute mark.
IQ1: Was your father a ventriloquist?
I am not Candice Bergan, Charlie McCarthy’s “little sister”.
Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross, during the Civil War; and Cindy Williams on Laverne & Shirley. Correct as to Stockard Channing, in Six Degrees of Separation, Grease and The West Wing.
As to The Avengers, hooray! See this thread, and esp. posts 61 through 76: I was an Avengers extra - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board
DQs:
Biggest TV fame before 1980?
Two DQs reserved. Any suggestions, sportsfans?
IQs:
Were you an understudy who once had to put on the wig of a lead actress, finding that it was still damp from her sweat?
Did Ryan Stiles often impersonate you on Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Did the actress who later played your wife once play your landlady?
Any soaps actresses who would qualify? I don’t know the soap operas at all…
IQ: Did you help teach 4 teen girls the “Facts of Life”?
I am not Charlotte Rae.
Well, once again, take 3 DQs.
DQ1) Alive.
DQ2) Real.
DQ3) Female.
DQ4) Not involved in athletics.
DQ5) Not a politician.
DQ6) Involved in the arts.
DQ7) American.
DQ8) Born before 1960.
DQ9) Not a musician.
DQ10) Actress.
DQ11) Still working, but not nearly as active in her field.
DQ12) Not known for film work.
DQ13) C is not the initial of the last name.
DQ14) Has never won an Emmy.
DQ15) Has appeared on TV within the last two years.
DQ16) Was a cast member for a big ratings show.
DQ17) Not best known as a comic actress.
DQ18) Biggest TV fame after 1980.
Glenn Close, early in her stage career.
Carol Channing.
Carroll O’Connor was on The Defenders with Jean Stapleton years before she was cast as Archie Bunker’s wife Edith.
So we have a living American actress, first name beginning with “C,” who was a cast member for a big-ratings show but never won an Emmy, not known as a comedienne, with her biggest fame after 1980.
Hmmm.
Right, now that you say that I can just see and hear Ryan doing Carol. Hilarious!
Only soaps actress I can name offhand is Genie Francis.
The “after 1980” part is the big thing that leaves me clueless…
I’ve heard Ryan “doing” Carol many times, but had never actually seen/heard Carol, so I looked for YouTube videos of her a few months ago. I kid you not, my first reaction was, “Oh my god - she sounds just like Ryan!!”
Well, it’s all pretty open still. ‘Born before 1960’ just means she can’t be any younger than 54 right now. ‘Biggest fame after 1980’ means she could have been as young as 22 when she had a hit show. ‘Most recent appearance was in the last two years’, well, again, as what? The creaky old lady who can barely move? The MILF who seduces her daughter’s boyfriend?
Is it worth finding out if she was the title character? Character actor vs. romantic lead? Best known as a villainess? I don’t know…
I’ll give you another hint: she was the female lead in two different successful TV series in the 1980’s.
My favorite bit was when he played Carol Channing as an astronaut on the Moon and said, in that wonderful voice, “Why, it’s just as dried-up and lifeless as I am!”
IQ: Did you play Alan Harper’s divorce lawyer, only to screw him over when Charlie slept with you, promptly dumping you?
Take a DQ.
DQ: Ever win Tony?
What was the answer to your IQ?