Loretta Swit (Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan)On "M*A*S*H," Loretta Swit played head nurse and chief stick-in-the-mud Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan and won two Emmy Awards for the role. Although she stayed with the series for all 11 seasons, she tried to exit in 1981 to take the part of Chris Cagney on "Cagney & Lacey." When producers held her to her contract, she stayed at the 4077th and left Lacey to find another partner.
After "M*A*S*H" ...
more Loretta Swit (Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan)On "M*A*S*H," Loretta Swit played head nurse and chief stick-in-the-mud Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan and won two Emmy Awards for the role. Although she stayed with the series for all 11 seasons, she tried to exit in 1981 to take the part of Chris Cagney on "Cagney & Lacey." When producers held her to her contract, she stayed at the 4077th and left Lacey to find another partner.
After "M*A*S*H" ended, Swit appeared in numerous TV movies, including "The Execution," in which she played a concentration camp survivor plotting to murder her Nazi oppressor. She also appeared on the TV series "Diagnosis Murder," "Murder, She Wrote," "Love Boat," and "Burke's Law." She became a staple of the game show circuit, appearing on "Win, Lose or Draw," "Password," and "Hollywood Squares." In addition, Swit narrated several documentaries, including the 1987 film "Korea: The Forgotten War," which took her to "M*A*S*H's" location, and the '90s Discovery show "Those Incredible Animals."
Swit moved away from TV and film, but has continued her
stage career in "The Vagina Monologues," "Mame," and more recently "Amorous Crossing" at the Alhambra Dinner Theatre in Florida. She also performed in "Love, Loss and What I Wore" in New York in 2011. Currently she can be seen performing as Eleanor Roosevelt in a one-woman show called "Eleanor: Her Secret Journey" at regional theaters nationwide. The tour continues into the spring of 2013.
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