Ruth Buzzi (born July 24, 1936) is an American comedienne and actress of theatre, film, and television. She is especially known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973.
Buzzi was born at Westerly Hospital, Westerly, Rhode Island, and calls Wequetequock, Connecticut her childhood home. She grew up (from the age of 6) in a rock house overlooking the ocean at Wequeteqouck Cove where her father owne...
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Ruth Buzzi (born July 24, 1936) is an American comedienne and actress of theatre, film, and television. She is especially known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973.
Buzzi was born at Westerly Hospital, Westerly, Rhode Island, and calls Wequetequock, Connecticut her childhood home. She grew up (from the age of 6) in a rock house overlooking the ocean at Wequeteqouck Cove where her father owned Buzzi Memorials, a business still operated by her older brother, Harold Buzzi.
She is the daughter of nationally recognized stone sculptor Angelo Buzzi (born in Arzo, Switzerland in the Ticino - Italian section of the country) and his wife Rena Macchi Buzzi. Her father carved the marble eagles at Penn Station in New York, the granite Leif Erikson memorial in Providence, Rhode Island, the animals seen in relief on the Natural History Museum in New York, and made literally thousands of tombstones, from the family business near Stonington,...
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