Meagen Fay

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Meagen Fay
Born Meagen Helen Fay
1957 (age 66–67)
Joliet, Illinois, United States
Occupation Actress
Years active 1982–present

Meagen Helen Fay[1] (born 1957) is an American actress known for her work in television.

A native of Joliet, Illinois,[2] in the early 1980s Fay was a featured cast member at The Second City.[3] Her first television role was in the 1987 television series Ohara.[4]

Fay's television worked continued into the 1980s and 1990s as she guest-starred on numerous shows including thirtysomething, Roseanne, Mad About You, Seinfeld, Dharma and Greg, Gilmore Girls, Suddenly Susan, Charmed and Freaks and Geeks.

She starred in early '90s series Carol & Company, The Home Court, Tales of the City, and Woops!, as well as appearing in Magnolia (1999). In 2004, she starred alongside Bruce Davison and Andrew McCarthy in Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.

More recently, Fay has had recurring roles on Malcolm in the Middle and The Bernie Mac Show, and has guest starred on Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, Desperate Housewives, The Big Bang Theory, and as Chelsea's mother on several episodes of Two and a Half Men.

Works

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1988 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Lady from Oklahoma
1991 Barton Fink Poppy Carnahan
1992 Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even Mom
1993 Rising Sun Hamaguri receptionist
1994 Love Affair SSA flight attendant
1997 Fathers' Day Megan
1999 Magnolia Dr. Diane
2002 Full Frontal Diane
2002 The Country Bears Mrs. Barrington
2004 Extreme Dating Branson
2004 Catch That Kid Doctor
2004 Home of Phobia Mrs. Paul
2005 The Ring Two
2012 That's My Boy Helen
2016 La La Land Filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1983 The Yesterday Show[5]
1984 The Imposter TV movie
1987–88 Ohara Roxy Baldwin
1989 Your Mother Wears Combat Boots Edie Winchell TV movie
1989 Alien Nation Coroner Barkley 2 episodes
1990–91 Carol & Company
1991 The Carol Burnett Show
1991–92 Roseanne Kathy Bowman 4 episodes
1992 Woops! Alice McConnell
1994 Tales of the City Binky Gruen
1994 Locals Rita Levine[5]
1994 The First Gentleman Rosie Duff[5]
1995–96 The Home Court Greer
1996 Love and Marriage Trudy Begg
2000 Diagnosis: Murder Connie Carmichael
2001 3rd Rock from the Sun Annabet Episode: "Mary Loves Scoochie: (Part 1)"
2002–04 Malcolm in the Middle Gretchen Mannkusser 11 episodes
2004 Kingdom Hospital Dr. Brenda Abelson
2005 Desperate Housewives Norma Harper Episode: "Color and Light"
2008 Single with Parents Nancy Unaired pilot[5]
2009 Two and a Half Men Martha Episode: "Hello, I am Alan Cousteau"
2012 The Big Bang Theory Mrs. Rostenkowski Episode: "The Fish Guts Displacement"
2014 Murder in the First
2015 Marvel's Agent Carter Miriam Fry

Stage

Year Title Role Venue Notes
1980–81 Well, I'm Off to the Thirty Years War or Swing Your Partner to the Right[6] Chicago Mainstage
1981–82 Miro, Miro on the Wall[6] Chicago Mainstage
1982 Glenna Loved It or If You Knew Sushi[6] Chicago Mainstage
1982–83 Exit Pursued by a Bear[6] Chicago Mainstage
1983 Also Available in Paperback – A Retrospective[6] Chicago Mainstage
1983–85 Orwell That Ends Well[7] Chicago Mainstage, The Village Gate Second City production
1986 Twelfth Night; or, What You Will[8] Maria New York Shakespeare Festival, The Public Theater, Delacorte Theater
1987 Stepping Out[9] Vera John Golden Theatre
1995 I Sent a Letter to My Love[10] Miss Morgan Primary Stages Theatre
1999 Merton of the Movies[11] Casting director Geffen Playhouse
2000 Bluff Coronet Theatre Staged reading
2003 To Be Young, Gifted and Black[12] Mavis

References

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