- Hattie Winston
Infobox actor
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name = Hattie Winston
birthname = Hattie Mae Winston
birthdate = birth date and age|1945|3|3
birthplace =Lexington, Mississippi , U.S. flagicon|USA
homepage =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 inGreenville, Mississippi . [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/32/Hattie-Winston.html Hattie Winston Biography (1945-) ] ] 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 theNegro 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 byMorgan Freeman ). She also played many villainess roles versusSpider-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 theQuentin Tarantino film "Jackie Brown".References
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