Phyllis Somerville is an American stage, screen and television actress. Her most prominent role to date, for which she garnered excellent reviews and for which some critics viewed her as a candidate for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination was as the mother of the sexual predator played by Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children.
She made her debut in the musical Over Here on Broadway, which starred Janie Sell, and the then-surviving Andrews Sisters (Maxene, who has since passed on, and Patty).
