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Meg Mundy
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Mundy in 1955
Born
Margaret Anne Mary Mundy

(1915-01-04)January 4, 1915
Died January 12, 2016(2016-01-12) (aged 101)
Occupation Actress
Years active 1934–2001
Spouse(s) Konstantinos Yannopoulos (September 15, 1951–; divorced)
Marc Daniels (1942–51; divorced)
Children 1
Parent(s)
  • Clytie Hine (mother)
Relatives John Hine Mundy (brother)

Margaret Anne Mary Mundy (January 4, 1915 – January 12, 2016) was an English-born American actress and model. She was born in London, and in 1921, at the age of six, emigrated to the United States with her family.

Personal life

Mundy was born in Marylebone, London. Her mother, Australian opera singer Clytie Hine, studied at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide, South Australia. Her father was English cellist John Mundy. In 1921, the couple emigrated to the United States with their two children. Their father became orchestra manager of the Metropolitan Opera. After retiring as a performer, Hine coached opera singers and musical performers. Meg's younger brother was Columbia University history professor John Hine Mundy. Mundy celebrated her 100th birthday on January 4, 2015, and died on January 12, 2016, at the age of 101.

Marriages

  • Marc Daniels (1942–51; divorced)
  • Konstantinos "Dino" Yannopoulos (September 15, 1951–?; divorced); 1 child

Career

In 1940, modeling agency founder Harry Conover cited Mundy as one of the 10 top models ("those who lure the highest salaries"). A newspaper article two years later reported that Mundy was "said to be Manhattan's highest paid model."

Mundy debuted as a concert singer at Carnegie Hall in 1942.

..... What's that, a Welsh holiday?" (Film star Ann Dvorak succeeded Mundy in that role.) Mundy also played Mary McLeod, the lead female role, in the Broadway production of Detective Story.

On television she played, among other roles, an antiques fancier on an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and wealthy matriarch Mona Aldrich Croft on The Doctors from 1972 to 1973 and 1975–82, leaving 3 months before the show ended. After playing the role of Isabelle Alden on the pilot for the new soap Loving, she briefly played Maeve Stoddard's imperious mother Julia on Guiding Light. She later played the role of Dimitri Marrick's wealthy aunt, Eugenia von Voynavitch on All My Children.

Her film credits included roles in Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), Oliver's Story (1978), The Bell Jar (1979), and as the mother of Mary Tyler Moore's character in Ordinary People (1980), which won the Academy Award as Best Picture Of The Year. She appeared in the 1983 Walter Matthau-Robin Williams film The Survivors, the 1987 films Fatal Attraction and Someone to Watch Over Me, and in two episodes of Law & Order in the 1990s.

Awards

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In 1982 she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series at the 9th Daytime Emmy Awards for her role on The Doctors.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1978 Eyes of Laura Mars Doris Spenser
1978 Oliver's Story Mrs. Barrett
1979 The Bell Jar Bea Ramsey
1980 Ordinary People Grandmother
1983 The Survivors Mace Lover
1987 Fatal Attraction Joan Rogerson
1987 Someone to Watch Over Me Antonia
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