Miss DiPesto, "Moonlighting" It
takes quite an assistant to keep up with the likes of David Addison (Bruce Willis) and Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) in one of the '80s' fastest-paced and
most compulsively watchable shows. But Agnes DiPesto, the addled, rhyming
receptionist at ... moreDavid and Maddie's detective agency, managed to steal every
scene she was in. Game and goofy, actress Allyce Beasley used her distinctive nasal voice and
innocent demeanor to navigate the sometimes choppy waters between her two
bosses. And that delivery? Greased lightning. (David: "Agnes, in all my born
days I have never met someone who could put together two and two faster than
you." Miss DiPesto: "Math was always my strongest subject.") Close