Mary-Margaret Humes

Mary-Margaret Humes
Born	April 4, 1954 (1954-04-04) (age 57) Watertown, New York, USA
Years active	1980–2010
Spouse	Raul A. Bruce (1992-present)

Mary-Margaret Humes (born April 4, 1954) is an American actress best known in recent years for playing Gail Leery, the title character's mother on the WB television drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003.

Biography

Born in Watertown, New York at Mercy Hospital on April 4, 1954, Humes is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neale C. Humes. She is a graduate of the Watertown High School Class of 1972. Humes competed as Miss Thousand Islands in the 1973 Miss New York State contest she won the Miss Florida USA pageant and was third runner up in the 1975 Miss USA pageant behind eventual winner and fellow actress Summer Bartholomew of California.

She was urged to try acting by fellow Floridian Burt Reynolds and her best known movie role is as the Vestal Virgin Miriam in Mel Brooks's History of the World, Part I. Humes has a long list of guest starring roles to her credit on such diverse shows as Grey's Anatomy, The Dukes of Hazzard, Matlock, Knight Rider, Murphy Brown, The A-Team, The Fall Guy, Hardcastle and McCormick, T.J. Hooker, Riptide and Touched by an Angel. She was also a regular on the short-lived NBC series Eerie, Indiana in 1991.

In 2000 she portrayed Hazel Show the mother of Laurie Show in the fact based film The Stalking of Laurie Show which was a made for television movie.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Dukes of Hazzard, TheThe Dukes of Hazzard	Tinker	Episode: "Mason Dixon's Girls"
1981	History of the World: Part 1	Miriam
1982	Fall Guy, TheThe Fall Guy	Christina Smith	Episode: "The Reluctant Traveling Companion"
1982	Knight Rider	Carol Reston	Episode: "No Big Thing"
1983	Love Boat, TheThe Love Boat	Cristina Stellini	Episode: "The Professor Has Class/When the Magic Disappears/We, the Jury"
1983	Manimal	Terry Sloan	Episode: "Night of the Scorpion"
1983	A-Team, TheThe A-Team	Randy Stern	Episode: "Steel"
1984	Fall Guy, TheThe Fall Guy	Rae Grant	Episode: "Bite of the Wasp"
1984	Riptide	Dee Dee	Episode: "The Mean Green Love Machine"
1984	Velvet	Lauren 'Boots' Daws	TV movie
1984	Hunter	Sandy Newton	Episode: "Legacy"
1984	New Mike Hammer, TheThe New Mike Hammer	Dana Lord	Episode: "Bonecrunch"
1985	Hardcastle and McCormick	Pamela Bayer	Episode: "What's So Funny?"
1985	Fall Guy, TheThe Fall Guy	Serena	Episode: "Split Image"
1985	Half Nelson	April	Episode: "Nose Job"
1985	Night Court	Kimberley Daniels	Episode: "Halloween, Too"
1985	Shadow Chasers	Allison Collingswood	Episode: "Blood and Magnolias"
1985	T. J. Hooker	Chrissi Wilde	Episode: "Hollywood Starr"
1986	T. J. Hooker	Lisa Temple	Episode: "Deadly Force"
1986	Gung Ho	Melissa	Episode: "Line of Credit"
1987	Outlaws	Lora Kirby	Episode: "Primer"
1988	Year in the Life, AA Year in the Life	Kathleen	Episode: "Goodbye to All That"
1988	Making a Living		Episode: "Daddy's Little Girl"
1990	Jake and the Fatman	Tish Janet Fromer	Episode: "I Ain't Got Nobody" Episode: "My Boy Bill"
1990	Valerie's Family	Honey	Episode: "Come Fly with Me"
1990	Matlock	Brigette Laird	Episode: "The Personal Trainer"
1991	Matlock	Claudette Hertz	Episode: "The Marriage Counselor"
1991	Father Dowling Mysteries	Mrs. Wiley	Episode: "The Monkey Business Mystery"
1991–1992	Eerie, Indiana	Marilyn Teller	19 episodes
1992	Matlock	Candace Winfield	Episode: "The Legacy"
1992	Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo	Laura Rand	TV movie
1992	Bodies of Evidence	Andie Harper	Episode: "Nearest and Dearest"
1993	Blossom	Carol	Episode: "Time" Episode: "Hunger"
1993	Dark Justice	Glenda Ross	Episode: "The Greening of Glenda Ross"
1993	Time Trax	Tulsa Giles	Episode: "Framed"
1994	Time Trax	Tulsa Giles	Episode: "Happy Valley"
1994	Diagnosis Murder	Ruth Garfield	Episode: "Shaker"
1995	Renegade	Laura Tracy	Episode: "Ace in the Hole"
1995	In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound	Karen	TV movie
1995	Gramps	Betsy MacGruder	TV movie
1995	Legend	Laura Davenport	Episode: "Knee-High Noon"
1995	Land's End	Rebecca / Simone	3 episodes
1995	Pointman	Marge	Episode: "Going Home"
1996	Sworn to Justice	Megan
1997	Murphy Brown	Raven-Haired Receptionist	Episode: "Who Do You Truss?" Episode: "Blind Date"
1997	Moloney		Episode: "The Ripple Effect"
1998–2003	Dawson's Creek	Gail Leery	93 episodes
2000	Stalking of Laurie Show, TheThe Stalking of Laurie Show	Hazel Show	TV movie
2001	Motocrossed	Geneva Carson	TV movie
2001	Dying to Dance	Helene Lennox	TV movie
2002	Touched by an Angel	Sandy Collette	Episode: "A Rock and a Hard Place"
2002	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Jeri Newman	Episode: "Let the Seller Beware"
2004	Division, TheThe Division	Mrs. Newland	Episode: "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here"
2006	CSI: NY	Helen Sanders	Episode: "Oedipus Hex"
2007	Grey's Anatomy	Nancy Jennings	Episode: "Desire"
2007	My First Christmas Tree	Mom	Short film
2007	Ghost Whisperer	Susan Drake	Episode: "Unhappy Medium"
2008	Criminal Minds	Audrey Henson	Episode: "The Crossing"
2008	Broken Windows	Dori
2008	Saving Grace	Deanne Wells	Episode: "Have a Seat, Earl"
2010	Head Over Spurs in Love	Lorraine Walker
2010	Portal, TheThe Portal	Mary
2010	Republic, TheThe Republic	Bettie Thompson	TV movie
2010	Dad's Home	Mrs. Dougherty	TV movie
2011	Luck	Lynette	Episode: "1.2"

External links

• Mary-Margaret Humes at the Internet Movie Database

Preceded by Cynthia Zach

Miss Florida USA 1975

Succeeded by Leigh Walsh

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Name	Humes, Mary-Margaret
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Date of birth	April 4, 1954
Place of birth	Watertown, New York
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