Barbara Meek Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Barbara Meek Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Barbara Anita Meek (February , â€" October , ) was an American

actress best known to television viewers for playing the character of

Ellen Canby for two seasons on Archie Bunker's Place. Since , Meek was

an active member of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode

Island, and appeared in more than Trinity Rep stage productions.She

was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Juanita (née Coleman) and Harold

Talmadge Meek, and is the maternal granddaughter of the Reverend

Horatius "H.H." Coleman, pastor of the Greater Macedonia Baptist

Church. She was a graduate of Northwestern High School, and as an

undergraduate was asked to join Wayne State University's graduate

theater program. Meek was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority

while attending college. In , Meek toured with the United Services

Organization, performing for wounded soldiers on Okinawa and other

U.S. Army bases. In , she joined the Trinity Repertory Company with

her husband, Martin Molson (â€"), where they debuted together in

Brother to Dragons.Highlights of Meek's stage career at Trinity

included leading roles in the August Wilson plays Fences and Ma

Rainey's Black Bottom, James Purdy's Eustace Chisholm and the Works,

Athol Fugard's Boesman and Lena, Peer Gynt, The Threepenny Opera,

Tartuffe, The Visit, Fires in the Mirror, Adrian Hall and Robert

Cumming's adaptation of A Christmas Carol (including the role of

Ebenezer Scrooge), Terrence McNally's Master Class, Henry IV,

Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer and, more recently, Lorraine

Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of

Being Earnest. Meek also appeared in the Broadway production of Wilson

in the Promised Land.In , Meek appeared in Blithe Spirit at Trinity

Rep, and Curt Columbus' adaptation of Antigone. She was in Camelot,

The Crucible and Steel Magnolias during the â€" season, and Sparrow

Grass in the â€" season.
Barbara Meek Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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