Jessica Walter Biography
Born: January 31, 1940
Learning the ropes at the Bucks County Playhouse and New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, Jessica Walter made her Broadway debut in 1961's Advise and Consent. The raven-haired leading lady was then seen on a regular basis in several Manhattan-based TV programs, including the daytimer Love of Life and the 1965 nighttime series For the People. In films from 1964, Jessica was one of eight young female "newcomers" (Candice_Bergen, Elizabeth_Hartman, Joanna_Pettet et. al.) who went on to greater things after appearing en masse in Sidney_Lumet's The_Group (1966). Her flashiest screen role was as the dangerously possessive "number one fan" Evelyn Draper in Clint_Eastwood's Play Misty for Me (1971). Of her many weekly-TV assignments, Walter's title role in the mid-'70s cop series Amy_Prentiss garnered her the most attention; that is, until recently, when Walter found late-career acclaim on the award-winning sitcom Arrested Development. As the insensitive, materialistic matriarch of the Bluth family, Walter garnered a plum comedic role, and Emmy attention to boot. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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