After decades in the business, Katherine Helmond is the kind of actress who has outlasted trends, studios and formats. Comedy keeps coming back on the credit list. 71 years of work add up to around 54 titles. The single most recognizable credit is 'Cars', playing Lizzie. She also turns up in 'Cars 2'. She won the Golden Globe for 'Who's the Boss?'.
Katherine Helmond
Actress
89 years (Jul 5, 1929 – Feb 23, 2019)Galveston, USAGalveston, Texas, USA
After decades in the business, Katherine Helmond is the kind of actress who has outlasted trends, studios and formats. Comedy keeps coming back on the credit list. 71 years of work add up to around 54 titles. The single most recognizable credit is 'Cars', playing Lizzie. She also turns up in 'Cars 2'. She won the Golden Globe for 'Who's the Boss?'.
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.
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.