Audrey Meadows (February 8, 1926 — February 3, 1996) was an American actress best known for her role as the deadpan housewife Alice Kramden on the 1950s American television comedy The Honeymooners.
Born as Audrey Cotter in New York City in 1926, the youngest of four children. Her parents, the Rev Francis James Meadows Cotter and his wife, the former Ida Miller Taylor had been Episcopal missionaries in Wuchang, China where her three siblings were ...
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Audrey Meadows (February 8, 1926 — February 3, 1996) was an American actress best known for her role as the deadpan housewife Alice Kramden on the 1950s American television comedy The Honeymooners.
Born as Audrey Cotter in New York City in 1926, the youngest of four children. Her parents, the Rev Francis James Meadows Cotter and his wife, the former Ida Miller Taylor had been Episcopal missionaries in Wuchang, China where her three siblings were born. The family returned to live in New York in 1921. Her elder sister is actress Jayne Meadows.
Audrey attended high school at the Barrington School for Girls in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
After high school, she moved to New York City and sang in the Broadway musical Top Banana before becoming a regular on television in The Bob and Ray Show.
She was then hired to play Alice on The Jackie Gleason Show after the original actress, Pert Kelton, who originated the role, was forced to leave the show due to the blacklisting, although the...
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