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.
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.
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