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| Birth Name(s) : Frances Bay |
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Full Frances Bay Biography
Frances Bay (born January 1, 1918) is a Canadian character actress known for playing a variety of quirky elderly women.
Bay was born in Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. She did not appear in films until the age of 60 when she played a small part in 1978's Foul Play, a comedy vehicle for Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. She went on to play small roles in films like The Karate Kid, Big Top Pee-wee and Twins.
Bay may also be familiar from her performance in the music video for Jimmy Fallon's comedy song, Idiot Boyfriend. Bay is perhaps best known today, however, for her performance as the hapless but loving grandmother of Adam Sandler's character in the 1996 film Happy Gilmore. Additionally, Bay has the honor of appearing in the final episodes of three different long-lived sitcoms: Happy Days, Who's the Boss? and Seinfeld.
In an earlier episode of Seinfeld, she played "Mabel Choate", a wealthy, irritable old woman from whom Jerry stole a loaf of marbled rye bread. In that episode, entitled The Rye, Bay appeared with her former Twin Peaks co-stars Grace Zabriskie and Warren Frost. In a future episode, the consequences of Jerry's act caused his father to be impeached as president of his retirement community in Florida.
Soon after the death of her husband, Charles Bay, in 2002, she was struck by a car in Glendale, California, and as a result she had to have part of her right leg amputated. It is not known if she has any children. |
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