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Margaret Whitton
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Margaret Whitton (November 30, 1949 – December 4, 2016) was an American actress. Her most known roles were that of baseball team owner Rachel Phelps in Major League (1989) and its sequel Major League II, and as Michael J. Fox's vibrant and underappreciated aunt-by-marriage in The Secret of My Success (1987). She also appeared in the films The Best of Times (1986) and The Man Without a Face (1993).
She first noticeably appeared on the stage in 1973, billed as Peggy Whitton. In the early 1980s, she began to be billed as Margaret Whitton and made her Broadway debut in 1982's Steaming. After her seven year experiment with film, she returned to the stage, appearing on Broadway in And the Apple D…
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Margaret Whitton (November 30, 1949 – December 4, 2016) was an American actress. Her most known roles were that of baseball team owner Rachel Phelps in Major League (1989) and its sequel Major League II, and as Michael J. Fox's vibrant and underappreciated aunt-by-marriage in The Secret of My Success (1987). She also appeared in the films The Best of Times (1986) and The Man Without a Face (1993). She first noticeably appeared on the stage in 1973, billed as Peggy Whitton. In the early 1980s, she began to be billed as Margaret Whitton and made her Broadway debut in 1982's Steaming. After her seven year experiment with film, she returned to the stage, appearing on Broadway in And the Apple Doesn't Fall... (1995) and in the original, award-winning musical Marlene (1999), starring Siân Phillips as Marlene Dietrich. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Whitton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Trial by Jury
as Jane Lyle, Juror
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
as Leslie Abramson
Major League II
as Rachel Phelps
The Man Without a Face
as Catherine Palin
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
as Melinda
The Summer My Father Grew Up
as Naomi
Kojak: None So Blind
as Michele Hogarth
Little Monsters
as Holly Stevenson
Major League
as Rachel Phelps
Ironweed
as Katrina
Baby Boom
as Executive In Conference Room (uncredited)
The Secret of My Success
as Vera Prescott
No Poster
Cat & Mousse
as Miriam
Nine 1/2 Weeks
as Molly
The Best of Times
as Darla Robinson
Love Child
as Jacki Steinberg
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
as First Lady Lousille Fogerty ("Success Wanters")
Teenage Hitchhikers
as Sola Alcoa (as Peggy Whitton)
Parades
as Jane