Polly Holliday
Polly Holliday was born in Jasper, Alabama, United States on July 2nd, 1937 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 86, Polly Holliday biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Polly Dean Holliday (born July 2, 1937) is an American actress who has appeared on stage, television, and film.
She is best known for her role as Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry, a sassy waitress who appeared on NBC's Alice, which she revived in its short-lived spin-off, Flo.
"Kiss my grits," her character's tagline reads. It's certainly the most memorable line in connection with Alice's film.
Early life
Ernest Sullivan Holliday, a truck driver, and Velma Mabell Holliday were born in Jasper, Alabama, the daughter of Ernest Sullivan Holliday, a truck driver, and Velma Mabell Holliday (née Cain). She grew up in Childersburg and Sylacauga, where her brother Doyle's boyhood friend Jim Nabors lived. Holliday spent time as a piano instructor in Alabama and then in Florida before acting. She began her acting career as a member of the Asolo Theatre Company in Sarasota, Florida, where she spent ten years. Holliday, an Episcopalian who performed in the St. Andrews Episcopal Choir in Mobile, Alabama, and she appeared in an official advertisement campaign for the Episcopal Church in January 2010. She appeared in the Grace Church (Episcopal) Choral Society in Greenwich Village (1995-2008), and the Willow Ensemble, a chamber music ensemble in New York City.
Career
In 1973, Holliday moved to New York City and appeared in Alice Childress' play The Public Theatre. She appeared in the Broadway hit All Over Town for more than a year. Dustin Hoffman, the play's producer, befriended her while on All Over Town, who later worked with her on the 1976 film All the President's Men.
In 1976, Holliday was cast — in what would be her big break — as Flo Castleberry, a sassy, man-hungry waitress on the American sitcom Alice. "Kiss my grits," her character described the common saying. The word became part of the American vocabulary. From 1976 to 1980, Holliday performed in Alice before moving to Flo, her own short-lived spin-off show in which Flo left her Arizona and returned home. During its abbreviated first season, the show was profitable, but attendance fell during the following season due to a time change, and it was cancelled in 1981.
Holliday was a temporary replacement for series regular Eileen Brennan after being hit by a car in 1983.
Holliday appeared on television shows like The Golden Girls, where she played Rose Nylund's blind sister Lily, as Jill Taylor's mother on Home Improvement, and a regular character on The Client.
Some of the President's Men, Moon Over Parador, Mrs. Doubtfire, Mr. Ruby Deagle's 1998 film adaptation, for which she received the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, she was one of Holliday's most notable roles in films.
Martha Brewster, one of the dotty, homicidal, sweet old aunties, appeared on Broadway revivals of Arsenic and Old Lace (1986), for which she was nominated for a Tony; and Picnic (1994). She appeared in the 1998 version of The Parent Trap as the Camp Walden's director. She appeared at Lincoln Center in a revival of Arthur Laurents' The Time of the Cuckoo.
She was inducted into the Alabama Stage and Screen Hall of Fame in 2000.