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JoBeth Williams
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Actor Born: December 6, 1948 in Houston, TX Biography:A graduate of Brown University, "JoBeth Williams" launched her acting career on the East Coast repertory theater circuit. Williams made her Broadway bow in 1980's A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking and gained a TV following as a regular on the daytime serials The Guiding Light and Somerset. She made an impressible film debut in a "flash part" in the Oscar-winning "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979). Williams' star ascended with such roles as the mother of long-suffering Heather O'Rourke in the first two "Poltergeist" films and the sixties activist-cum-housewife in "The Big Chill" (1983). While she hasn't always been well-served by Hollywood, she has managed to show up in a number of worthwhile assignments, ranging from 1984's "Teachers" (in which she spontaneously performing the most dramatically justifiable striptease in movie history) to 1994's "Wyatt Earp" (as Bessie Earp) Her TV-movie credits are... Full Biography
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