About Lynn Milgrim
Born 1944. Lynn Milgrim is an American actor.
Lynn Milgrim (born March 17, 1944) She is best known as an accomplished stage actress and has been in numerous Broadway, national, and regional productions. She has also appeared in many feature films, television series, and television movies.
Early years Milgrim was born on March 17, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Swarthmore and received her master's degree in elementary education from Harvard in 1965. While she taught sixth grade in Arlington, Massachusetts, she worked nights at Loeb Drama Center.
Career Stage roles Broadway roles include: Bedroom Farce as Jan, Otherwise Engaged as Davina, WIN/LOSE/DRAW at the Provincetown Playhouse, with The New York Times calling her a "delightful actress"; Lynne Meadow's Close of Play; playing Helena (Staff) in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer's Night Dream at the Actors Theatre of Louisville; playing Celimene in Molière's play The Misanthrope in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production at the Adams Memorial Theatre Main Stage at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts with Emery Battis; as Mrs. Yang in Bertolt Brecht's play The Good Woman of Setzuan, also at Williams College; as Geraldine Barclay in Joe Orton's play What The Butler Saw, also at Williams College; and playing the mother-in-law in the Bertolt Brecht play The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California; and many more.
More recent productions include: Samuel D. Hunter's Rest and Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley, both also at South Coast Repertory; a revival of Joseph Kesserling’s 1941 Broadway classic Arsenic And Old Lace at La Mirada Theatre in Los Angeles; Christine Deitne's Diana of Dobson's; Eastern Standard at the Coast Playhouse; George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion at the Pasadena Playhouse, Hedda Gabler; and A Doll's House, Part 2. Migrim is a company member of the Antaeus Theatre Company in Los Angeles.
Television roles She has had recurring roles and made guest appearances on major TV shows such as The Doctors,The Wonder Years, Life Goes On, Mama's Family, Knots Landing, Who's the Boss?, Highway to Heaven, CBS Summer Playhouse, The Equalizer, 9-1-1
Film roles +YearTitleRoleNotesRef(s)2004Employee of the MonthMrs. Chapman Her film credits include Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983), two Cybill Shepherd movies (Telling Secrets (1993) (TV) and Baby Brokers (1994)
Personal life She is married to fellow actor H. Richard Greene, and they have a daughter. They had recurring roles as Jim and Evelyn Cooper, Winnie Cooper's parents, on The Wonder Years.
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