Katherine Helmond
Actor
Born July 5, 1929 in Galveston, Texas, USA
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.
Filmography
Frank and Ava
Betty
Cars 3
Lizzie (voice)
The Radiator Springs 500½
Lizzie (voice)
Time Travel Mater
Lizzie (voice)
Collaborator
Irene Longfellow
Cars 2
Lizzie (voice)
Harry's Law
Gloria Gold
Pound Puppies
Mildred (voice)
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
Lizzie (voice)
True Blood
Caroline Bellefleur
What Is Brazil?
Self
A Grandpa for Christmas
Roxie Famosa
Mater and the Ghostlight
Lizzie (voice)
Cars
Lizzie (voice)
Beethoven's 5th
Crazy Cora Wilkens
Mr. St. Nick
Queen Carlotta
Living in Fear
Mrs. Ford
Strong Medicine
Cicely Nordeco
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
Shatzie
The Perfect Nanny
Mrs. McBride
Providence
Rose Bidwell
The Wild Thornberrys
Dugong (voice)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Desk Clerk at Mint Hotel
Ms. Scrooge
Maude Marley
Everybody Loves Raymond
Lois Whelan
Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story
Hedda Hopper
The Spy Within
Dr. Pamela Schilling
Amore!
Mildred Schwartz
The Elvira Show
Aunt Minerva
Inside Monkey Zetterland
Honor Zetterland
Batman: The Animated Series
Connie (voice)
Grass Roots
Emma Carr
Deception: A Mother’s Secret
Geena Milner
The Perfect Tribute
Farm Woman
When Will I Be Loved?
Barbara Patterson
The Upper Hand
Madame Alexandra
Coach
Doris Sherman
Lady in White
Amanda
Save the Dog!
Overboard
Edith Mintz
Christmas Snow
Mrs. Mutterance
Girls On Top
Goldie
The Comedy Factory
Mildred Deegan
Shadey
Lady Constance Landau
Brazil
Mrs. Ida Lowry
Who's the Boss?
Mona Robinson
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack's Mother
Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story
Frances Clooney
For Lovers Only
Bea Winchell
Faerie Tale Theatre
Jack's Mother
Cagney & Lacey
Mona Robinson
World War III
Dorothy Longworth
Time Bandits
Mrs. Ogre
Scout's Honor
Pearl Bartlett
Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker
Elaine Thurston
Benson
Jessica Tate
Pearl
Mrs. Sally Colto
Getting Married
Vera Lesser
The Love Boat
Harriet Darnell Stevens
Soap
Jessica Tate
Little Ladies of the Night
Miss Colby
Meeting of Minds
Wanted: The Sundance Woman
Mattie Riley
Spencer's Pilots
Baby Blue Marine
Mrs. Hudkins
Family Plot
Mrs. Maloney
James Dean
Claire Folger
The Bionic Woman
The Hindenburg
Mrs. Mildred Breslau
Joe Forrester
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Nurse Katherine Gunther
Cage Without a Key
Mrs. Little
The Family Nobody Wanted
Mrs. Bittner
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Emma Borden
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Lady at House
Locusts
Claire Fletcher
Harry O
Petrocelli
Nancy Berwick
Larry
Maureen Whitten
Dr. Max
Libby Oppel
The Six Million Dollar Man
Middy
The Snoop Sisters
Cissy Prine
Adam's Rib
Martha Layne
Barnaby Jones
Edna Morrison
The Bob Newhart Show
Dr. Webster
The Rookies
The Hospital
Marilyn Mead
Medical Center
Rachel Weldman
Mannix
Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Gunsmoke
Ena Spratt
Wine of Morning
Irene
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee