Christine Ebersole

Played the dual role of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale ( Big Edie ) and Edith Bouvier Beale ( Little Edie ) in Grey Gardens

Cast as M Lynn in the Broadway production of Steel Magnolias

Played Millicent Jordan in Dinner at Eight, which she was nominated for a Tony Award

Played the actress Dorothy Brock in the revival of the musical 42nd Street ; earned Tony Award

Co-starred in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal s The Best Man

Had featured role as the adoptive mother of a troubled teen in the Off-Broadway play Current Events

Had supporting role on the CBS sitcom Ink

Played title role in the short-lived Fox sitcom Rachel Gunn, R.N.

Co-starred in the CBS sitcom The Cavanaughs

First substantial role in features, Amadeus

Returned to daytime dramas as Maxie on ABC s One Life to Live ; earned Daytime Emmy nomination

TV-movie debut, The Dollmaker with Jane Fonda

Film debut in small role in Tootsie

Joined cast of Saturday Night Live (NBC)

First Broadway lead as Guinevere in Camelot starring opposite Richard Burton, then Richard Harris

Broadway debut in small role in On the Twentieth Century

TV debut as Lily on ABC soap opera Ryan s Hope