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Biography of Frances Sternhagen - Actress
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Born January 13, 1930 and raised in Washington, D.C., Frances Sternhagen taught acting, singing and dancing to school children before first performing herself with the Arena Stage Group. She has been acting on stage, in films and TV since the 1950s. She is currently appearing (August 2005) in the Broadway production of Steel Magnolias with Marsha Mason, Delta Burke, Christine Ebersole, Lily Rabe and Rebecca Gayheart. She may be best known to TV audiences as "Esther Clavin", mother of John Ratzenberger's Boston postman character "Cliff Clavin", on the long-running series Cheers. She met her husband, Thomas Carlin, at Catholic University of America and had 6 children by him. He died in 1991. Lives in New Rochelle, New York.
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