Which American film, theater and television actress and director was featured in a sitcom starring Tony Danza?
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Who's the Boss? Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984 to April 25, 1992. Produced by Embassy Television (later Embassy Communications and ELP Communications), in association with Hunter-Cohan Productions and Columbia Pictures Television, the series starred Tony Danza as a retired major league baseball player who relocates to Fairfield, Connecticut to work as a live-in housekeeper for a divorced advertising executive, played by Judith Light. Also featured were Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro and Katherine Helmond.
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Katherine Helmond Katherine Marie Helmond (born July 5, 1929) is an American film, theater and television actress and director. In her five decades of television acting, she is known her starring role as the ditzy matriarch, Jessica Tate, on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom, "Soap" (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother, Mona Robinson on "Who's the Boss?" (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on "Coach" and Lois Whelan on "Everybody Loves Raymond". She has also appeared as a guest on several talk and variety shows.
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Pam Grier Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She became known in the early 1970s for starring in a string of women in prison and blaxploitation films like "The Big Bird Cage" (1972), "Coffy" (1973), "Foxy Brown" (1974) and "Sheba Baby" (1975). She starred in Quentin Tarantino's film "Jackie Brown", for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG Award as well as a Satellite Award for her performance in "Jackie Brown". Grier is also known for her work on television; for 6 seasons she portrayed Kate 'Kit' Porter on the television series "The L Word". She received an Emmy Award nomination for her work in the animated program "". Rotten Tomatoes has ranked her as the second greatest female action heroine in film history. Director Quentin Tarantino remarked that she may have been cinema's first female action star.
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List of Alice episodes "Alice" is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS, during which a total of 202 episodes were produced spanning nine seasons. The series is based on the 1974 film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore". The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.
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Tonya Pinkins Tonya Pinkins (born May 30, 1962) is an American television, film and theater actress and author known for her portrayal of Livia Frye on the soap opera "All My Children" and for her roles on Broadway. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards, and has won the Obie, 2 Lortel Awards, the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, AUDLECO, Garland, L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent and NAACP Theater Awards. She has been nominated for the Olivier, Helen Hayes, Noel, Joseph Jefferson, NAACP Image, Soap Opera Digest and Ovation awards. She won the Tony for "Jelly's Last Jam".
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Kaye Marie Talise Kaye Marie Talise is an American television and film actress. She has had roles in "", "The Office", "MANswers", and "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia". She was an uncredited extra in "Tropic Thunder'" and "Spread".
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Donna Pescow Donna Pescow (born March 24, 1954) is an American film and television actress and director.
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Betty Gilpin Betty Gilpin (born July 21, 1986) is an American actress. She is notable for portraying Doctor Carrie Roman in Showtime's "Nurse Jackie", and as Debbie "Liberty Belle" Eagan in the Netflix comedy series "GLOW", which was inspired by the 1980s female professional wrestling league of the same name. She has also appeared in "", "Medium", "Fringe" and "Elementary".
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Mary Stuart Masterson Mary Stuart Masterson (born June 28, 1966) is an American actress and director. She has starred in the films "At Close Range" (1986), "Some Kind of Wonderful" (1987), "Chances Are" (1989), "Fried Green Tomatoes" (1991) and "Benny & Joon" (1993). She won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1989 film "Immediate Family", and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the 2003 Broadway revival of "Nine".
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The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone is a 2009 drama film. The film was directed by James Quattrochi and stars Tony Luke, Jr., Tony Danza, and William Forsythe.
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Zaza (1939 film) Zaza is a 1939 American romantic drama film made by Paramount Pictures, and directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Zoë Akins, based on the play "Zaza". The music score is by Frederick Hollander. The film stars Claudette Colbert (who had replaced Isa Miranda) and Herbert Marshall.
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Loni Anderson Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1946) is an American actress. She is known for her four-year run as receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" (1978–82).
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Diane Ladd Diane Ladd (born November 29, 1932) is an American actress, film director, producer and author. She has appeared in over 120 film and television roles. For the 1974 film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for "Alice" (1980–81), and to receive Academy Award nominations for "Wild at Heart" (1990) and "Rambling Rose" (1991). Her other film appearances include "Chinatown" (1974), "Ghosts of Mississippi" (1996), "Primary Colors" (1998), "28 Days" (2000), and "American Cowslip" (2008). Ladd is the mother of actress Laura Dern, with her ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern.
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Patricia Clarkson Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an American actress. She has starred in many leading and supporting roles in films such as "The Station Agent", "The Pledge", "The Green Mile", "Far from Heaven", "High Art", "Dogville", "Good Night, and Good Luck", "Easy A", and "Cairo Time". She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe for her performance in "Pieces of April" (2003). She twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her recurring role in "Six Feet Under". In 2015, she was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in "The Elephant Man".
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Natasha Melnick Natasha Melnick (born April 10, 1984) is an American television and film actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Cindy Sanders on the short-lived 1999 NBC comedy-drama "Freaks and Geeks".
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Janice Kent Janice Kent is an American actress, director and life coach. She has appeared in roles on stage and television and in films. She has appeared in over 150 television commercials.
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Liz Feldman Liz Feldman (born May 21, 1977) is an American comedian, actress, producer and writer.
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List of Who's the Boss? episodes The following is an episode list for the ABC sitcom "Who's the Boss?". The series stars Tony Danza and Judith Light, and centers on a widowed ex-Major League Baseball player from Brooklyn who relocates to an affluent Connecticut suburb with his daughter to become the housekeeper for a divorced advertising executive, her son and her mother. The series ran for eight seasons, debuting on September 20, 1984 and concluding with an hour-long series finale (part of a three episode story arc) on April 25, 1992.
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Rosetta LeNoire Rosetta LeNoire (born Rosetta Olive Burton; August 8, 1911 – March 17, 2002) was an American stage, screen, and television actress, as well as a Broadway producer and casting agent. LeNoire is known to contemporary audiences for her work in television. She had regular roles on the series "Gimme a Break!" and "Amen" but she may be best known for her role as Estelle "Mother" Winslow (Carl's mother) on "Family Matters", which ran from 1989-98. In 1999, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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Blair Brown Bonnie Blair Brown (born April 23, 1946) is an American theater, film and television actress. She has had a number of high-profile roles, including in the play "Copenhagen" on Broadway, as well as a run as the title character in the television comedy-drama "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd", which ran from 1987 to 1991. Her later roles include Nina Sharp on the Fox television series "Fringe" and Judy King on the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black".
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Teach: Tony Danza Teach: Tony Danza is an American reality show about actor Tony Danza becoming a tenth-grade English teacher at Northeast High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the 2009–2010 school year. The show premiered October 1, 2010 on A&E. Filming took place predominantly during the first semester of the school year, with a few unaired scenes shot at the end of the second semester. Production was halted at the end of the first semester after the producers felt that existing footage was not dramatic enough, and after Danza refused to allow the producers to try to generate drama among his students. The existing footage was used to create the seven episodes that aired.
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Blanche Baker Blanche Baker (born December 20, 1956) is an American actress and filmmaker. She won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the television mini-series "Holocaust". Baker is known for her role as Ginny Baker in "Sixteen Candles", and also starred in the title role of "Lolita" on Broadway.