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Able to move alternate between comedy and melodrama, and portray everything from vixens to suffering... (Learn more)

Top Projects: The Golden Girls, The Golden Girls:..., Generation Gap (View All)

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Notes on Rue McClanahan

"I was, AM, a serious actress. I decided when I was 13 and in the sixth grade what I wanted to do. It just hit me then. Like an epiphany." - McClanahan quoted in the New York Daily News, Jan. 25, 1995

As a teenager, McClanahan spent two summers dancing at the prestigious Jacob's Pillow festival in the Berkshires. She later decided she could not just be a "mute performer." - from New York Newsday, Jan. 31, 1995

McClanahan produced and wrote (including the music and lyrics) the stage musical, "Oedipus, Shmedipus, as Long as You Love Your Mother."

On Nov. 4, 2009, McClanahan underwent an emergency heart bypass surgery.

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Quick Facts

Also known as

AKA : Eddi-Rue McClanahan

Born

February, 21 1934 in Healdton, Oklahoma, USA

Education

  • Ardmore High School, Ardmore, OK:
  • University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Ok: Graduated cum laude

Professions

actor, producer