Frances Sternhagen

Born January 13, 1930 and raised in Washington, D.C., Frances Sternhagen taught acting, singing and dancing to school children before first performing herself with the Arena Stage Group.

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She has been acting on stage, in films and TV since the 1950s. She is currently appearing (August 2005) in the Broadway production of Steel Magnolias with Marsha Mason, Delta Burke, Christine Ebersole, Lily Rabe and Rebecca Gayheart.

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She may be best known to TV audiences as "Esther Clavin", mother of John Ratzenberger's Boston postman character "Cliff Clavin", on the long-running series Cheers.

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She met her husband, Thomas Carlin (who died in 1991), at Catholic University of America and had 6 children by him.

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Frances Sternhagen lives in New Rochelle, New York.

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January 13: January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. It is still celebrated as New Year's Eve by those on the Julian calendar. There are 352 days remaining (353 in a leap year)....

1930: 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday....

Washington, D.C.: Washington, D.C....

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