Katherine Helmond
Actor
- Born
- July 5, 1929 · Galveston, Texas, USA
- Died
- February 23, 2019 (age 89)
Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1929 – February 23, 2019) was an American film, theater, and television actress, and director.
Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as 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, the mother of Debra Barone, on Everybody Loves Raymond. She guest starred on a number of TV shows including True Blood, Strong Medicine, Providence, The Love Boat, The Bionic Woman (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bob New hart Show, Mannix, and Gunsmoke.
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She had supporting roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), and Overboard (1987). She also voiced Lizzie in the Cars trilogy by Disney/Pixar.
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Known for
Cars
June 8, 2006
Cars 2
June 11, 2011
Cars 3
June 15, 2017
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
May 22, 1998
Brazil
February 20, 1985
Time Bandits
July 13, 1981
Overboard
December 16, 1987
Family Plot
April 9, 1976
Mater and the Ghostlight
July 27, 2006
Beethoven's 5th
December 2, 2003
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
November 2, 2008
The Hindenburg
December 25, 1975
Acting56
- 2018Frank and Ava as Betty
- 2017Cars 3 as Lizzie (voice)
- 2014The Radiator Springs 500½ as Lizzie (voice)
- 2012Time Travel Mater as Lizzie (voice)
- 2011Collaborator as Irene Longfellow
- 2011Cars 2 as Lizzie (voice)
- 2008Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales as Lizzie (voice)
- 2008What Is Brazil? as Self
- 2007A Grandpa for Christmas as Roxie Famosa
- 2006Mater and the Ghostlight