Eileen Brennan
Gender: Female
Born: 3rd September 1932 (currently 79 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Bonkers, Off the Rack, A New Kind of Family, Private Benjamin, Gravedale High, 13 Queens Boulevard, All That Glitters
Movies: Clue, FM, Murder by Death, Private Benjamin, The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, Scarecrow, White Palace, Dumb Luck, The Cheap Detective, The Last Picture Show, Stella, Boys Life 2, The Star Wagon, The Great Smokey Roadblock, The Death of Richie, Jeepers Creepers, The Kings of Appletown, Babes in Toyland, Texasville, When the Circus Came to Town, Last Great Ride, At Long Last Love, The Hollow, My Old Man, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, The Sting, Toothless, Daisy Miller, Comic Book Villains, The Fourth Wise Man, Hustle, Take Me Home Again, Divorce American Style, Sticky Fingers, Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife, Pandemonium, Working, In Search of Dr. Seuss, Picture This, Deadly Intentions... Again?
Eileen Brennan (born September 3, 1932) is an American actress of film, television, and theater. Brennan is best known for her role as Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised the role in the TV adaption and won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for her performance. She received Emmy nominations for her guest starring roles on Newhart, Thirtysomething, and Will and Grace.
Brennan was born as Verla Eileen Regina Brennen in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Regina "Jeanne" Menehan, a silent film actress, and John Gerald Brennen, a doctor. Of Irish descent, she was raised Roman Catholic.
Eileen Brennan appeared in plays with the Mask and Bauble Society at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where she was employed. She starred there in Arsenic and Old Lace. Her exceptional comic skills and romantic soprano voice propelled her from unknown to star in the title role of Rick Besoyan's off-Broadway tongue-in-cheek musical/operetta Little Mary Sunshine (1959) and its un-official sequel, The Student Gypsy (1963). She went on to create the role of Irene Malloy in the original Broadway production of
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