Hattie Mae Winston (born March 3, 1945) is an American television, film and Broadway actress best known for her role as Margaret on Becker. She was featured in television series such as Nurse and Homefront.
Biography
Winston was born in Lexington, Mississippi and raised in Greenville, Mississippi. She began her career onstage. Winston starred in the Broadway hit The Tap Dance Kid; she also appeared on Broadway in Two Gentlemen of Verona, I Love My Wife, and The Me Nobody Knows. She was a member of the Negro Ensemble Company.
Winston rose to prominence during the mid-1970s as a member of the cast of the children's PBS series The Electric Company, which was produced by the Children's Television Workshop. Her most notable character on that series was Valerie the Librarian, who was best friends with Easy Reader (portrayed by Morgan Freeman). She also played many villainess roles versus Spider-Man on the Spidey Super Stories sketches, such as the Fox, the Thumper, the Queen Bee, and the Queen of Diamonds. Winston was with the show from 1973 to 1977. In 1998, she voiced Lucy Carmichael for The Rugrats Movie. Since then she has gone on to voice the character again for Nickelodeon TV series, All Grown Up. Which was a spin-off from the original Rugrats series.
She has guest-starred on Scrubs and Smart Guy. In 1997, Winston portrayed Simone in the Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown.
References
^ Hattie Winston Biography (1945-)
External links
Hattie Winston at the Internet Movie Database
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