Jane Rose (February , â€" June , ) was an American character actress,
perhaps best remembered as Audrey Dexter, the gently befuddled
mother-in-law of Phyllis Lindstrom on the CBS sitcom Phyllis (â€").A
versatile actress, Jane Prim Rose was born on February , , in Seattle.
She attended the University of Washington, where future actress
Frances Farmer was a classmate; Rose and Farmer were subsequently
roommates in New York City in .Rose, who worked with the New York
Association for the Blind (she served eleven years as the
Association's Director of Recreation), also taught acting, and was a
pioneer in the use of drama as therapy for the blind.She appeared in
the original Broadway productions of The Time of the Cuckoo (â€"),
Orpheus Descending (), and The Gazebo (â€"), as well as a revival of
Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House (â€"), in which she played Nurse
Guinness. She also performed for the New York Shakespeare Festival in
such productions as All's Well That Ends Well, Richard III, and
Measure for Measure."
perhaps best remembered as Audrey Dexter, the gently befuddled
mother-in-law of Phyllis Lindstrom on the CBS sitcom Phyllis (â€").A
versatile actress, Jane Prim Rose was born on February , , in Seattle.
She attended the University of Washington, where future actress
Frances Farmer was a classmate; Rose and Farmer were subsequently
roommates in New York City in .Rose, who worked with the New York
Association for the Blind (she served eleven years as the
Association's Director of Recreation), also taught acting, and was a
pioneer in the use of drama as therapy for the blind.She appeared in
the original Broadway productions of The Time of the Cuckoo (â€"),
Orpheus Descending (), and The Gazebo (â€"), as well as a revival of
Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House (â€"), in which she played Nurse
Guinness. She also performed for the New York Shakespeare Festival in
such productions as All's Well That Ends Well, Richard III, and
Measure for Measure."
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