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Charlotte Rae

Actor
Born April 22, 1926Died August 5, 2018 (92 years)
Charlotte Rae Lubotsky was born on April 22, 1926, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Russian Jewish immigrants Esther (née Ottenstein), who was a childhood friend of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and Meyer Lubotsky, a retail tire business owner. She is one of three sisters, along with Miriam and the late Beverly (December 21, 1921 – June 2, 1998).

She graduated from Shorewood High School in 1944. For the first ten years or so of her life, Rae's family lived in Milwaukee, then moved to Shorewood, Wisconsin. She did radio work and was with the Wauwatosa Children's Theatre. At 16, she was an apprentice with the Port Players, a professional theater company that came for the summer to Milwaukee, with several established actors such as Morton DaCosta, who would eventually direct The Music Man on Broadway.

Rae attended Northwestern University, although she did not complete her studies, where she met Cloris Leachman, who many years later succeeded Rae on The Facts of Life for the show's last two seasons. At Northwestern she met several unknown stars and producers, including Agnes Nixon, Charlton Heston, Paul Lynde, Gerald Freedman, Claude Akins and songwriter Sheldon Harnick. When a radio personality told her that her last name wouldn't do, she dropped it, to her father's chagrin. She moved to New York City in 1948, where she performed in the theater and nightclubs. During her early years in New York, she worked at the Village Vanguard (alongside up-and-coming talents such as singer Richard Dyer-Bennet) and at the posh Blue Angel, home to budding talents Barbra Streisand, Mike Nichols and Elaine May. She moved to Los Angeles in 1974

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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Sisters
  • Car 54, Where Are You?
  • The Tangerine Bear
  • C.P.O. Sharkey
Known For
  • You Don't Mess with the Zohan
  • Hair
  • Diff'rent Strokes
  • The Facts of Life
  • 101 Dalmatians: The Series
  • The Worst Witch
  • The Hot Rock
  • Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage
  • The Facts of Life Goes to Paris
  • The Facts of Life Reunion
  • Thunder in Paradise
  • Hello Down There
  • Love Sick Love
  • Another Woman's Husband

Filmography

2015
2014
Girl Meets World (TV Series) · as Gammy Hart
2012
Love Sick Love · as Edna
2010
Pretty Little Liars (TV Series) · as Bead Boutique Owner
2008
2008
You Don't Mess with the Zohan · as Mrs. Greenhouse
2008
2007
Life (2007) (TV Series) · as Mary Ford
2001
The Facts of Life Reunion · as Mrs. Edna Garrett
2000
The Tangerine Bear · as Mrs. Caruthers (voice)
2000
Strong Medicine (TV Series) · as Maude
2000
1999
1998
The King of Queens (TV Series) · as Betty
1997
1997
Michael Hayes (TV Series) · as Bea Dictor
1997
101 Dalmatians: The Series (TV Series) · as Nanny (voice)
1997
Nowhere · as Fortune Teller
1997
The Brothers Flub (TV Series) · as Tarara Boomdeeyay (voice)
1996
1995
Can't Hurry Love (TV Series)
1994
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (TV Series) · as Adrienne
1994
1994
ER (TV Series) · as Roxanne Gaines
1994
1993
Diagnosis Murder (TV Series) · as Estelle
1993
Thunder in Paradise · as Lola Miller
1992
Tom and Jerry: The Movie · as Aunt Figg (voice)
1991
Sisters (TV Series)
1991
Baby Talk (TV Series)
1988
1986
The Worst Witch · as Miss Cackle
1985
1985
227 (TV Series)
1985
Words by Heart · as Mary Tom Chism
1984
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Nettie Harper
1982
St. Elsewhere (TV Series)
1982
1979
The Facts of Life (TV Series) · as Edna Garrett
1979
Beane's of Boston · as Mae Slocombe
1979
Hair · as Lady In Pink
1979
1979
Hello, Larry (TV Series) · as Edna Garrett
1978
Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series) · as Edna Garrett
1978
The Eddie Capra Mysteries (TV Series) · as Polly Ryan
1978
Flying High (TV Series)
1978
Rabbit Test · as Cousin Claire
1977
Sidewinder 1 · as Mrs. Holt
1977
Our Town · as Mrs. Soames
1977
The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Ellen Van Bowe
1976
C.P.O. Sharkey (TV Series) · as Mrs. Stanley
1976
All's Fair (TV Series)
1976
Family (TV Series)
1975
Phyllis (TV Series) · as Shirley
1975
1975
Hot L Baltimore (TV Series)
1975
Barney Miller (TV Series) · as Mrs. Rebecca Sobel
1974
Good Times (TV Series)
1972
The Paul Lynde Show (TV Series) · as Charlotte
1972
Temperatures Rising (TV Series) · as Mrs. Moscowitz
1972
The Hot Rock · as Ma Murch
1971
McMillan and Wife (TV Series)
1971
Bananas · as Mrs. Ruth Mellish
1971
Great Performances (TV Series) · as Madame Aigreville
1971
All in the Family (TV Series) · as Lillian Henderson
1970
The Partridge Family (TV Series) · as Dr. Beecher
1970
Jenny · as Bella Star
1969
1969
Sesame Street (TV Series) · as Molly The Mail Lady
1969
Hello Down There · as Myrtle Ruth
1966
1966
ABC Stage 67 (TV Series) · as Woman In Window
1964
NET Playhouse (TV Series) · as (segment "foul!")
1961
Car 54, Where Are You? (TV Series) · as Sylvia Schnauser
1961
The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) · as Mona Brinkman
1961
The Defenders (TV Series) · as Mrs. Abeles
1961
Way Out (TV Series)
1959
1959
1957
The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) · as Myrtle May
1955
The Phil Silvers Show (TV Series) · as Flossie
1953
1953
Ponds Theater (TV Series) · as Cast
1951
1950
The Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) · as Mrs. Ogburn
1948

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