Bonnie Bartlett
Gender: Female
Born: 20th June 1929 (currently 82 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: St. Elsewhere, Love of Life, Little House on the Prairie, Once and Again
Movies: Twins, Shiloh, Saving Shiloh, The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, Teen Mothers, Dempsey, Promises in the Dark, Love Letters, Primary Colors, Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season, Take Me Home Again, A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Deliberate Stranger, Valediction
Bonnie Bartlett (born June 20, 1929) is an American television and film actress. Her career spans over 50 years, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. She is best known for her role as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series St. Elsewhere. She and her husband, actor William Daniels, who played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, won 1986 Emmy Awards on the same night, becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965.
Bartlett was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, the daughter of Carrie and E.E. Bartlett, and raised in Moline, Illinois. Her father was an insurance salesman and a failed actor, and she was determined to live out his dream. Bartlett met her husband, actor William Daniels at Northwestern University. They were married on June 30, 1951. In 1961, she gave birth to a son, who died just 24 hours later. They later adopted two children: Michael, who became an assistant director and stage manager in Los Angeles, and Robert, who became an artist and computer graphics designer based in New York City.
Bartlett studied acting with Lee Strasberg, and first got her start in television playing
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