![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: February 21, 1934 in Healdton, OK Biography:Graduating cum laude from the University of Tulsa, "Rue McClanahan" studied acting with "Uta Hagen" and at the Perry-Mansfield school. After her professional debut with a Pennsylvania stock company in 1957, McClanahan headed to New York, where between acting gigs she worked as a waitress, took shorthand and sold blouses. Grabbing any opportunity available, she made her TV bow on a 1960 episode of the TV series Malibu Run, then appeared in a handful of exploitation films with come-hither titles like Five Minutes to Love (she played "Poochie, the girl from the shack," a credit she has since dropped from her resumé). She managed to find more prestigious work on the New York stage, starring in such well-received productions as MacBird, Jimmy Shine, Sticks and Bones and California Suite. She also played regular roles on the TV soap operas "Another World" and "Where the Heart Is". A 1972 guest shot on... Full Biography
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