Margaret Whitton
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Margaret Whitton (November 30, 1949 – December 4, 2016) was an American actress. Her most known roles were that of baseball team owner Rachel Phelps in Major League (1989) and its sequel Major League II, and as Michael J. Fox's vibrant and underappreciated aunt-by-marriage in The Secret of My Success (1987). She also appeared in the films The Best of Times (1986) and The Man Without a Face (1993). She first noticeably appeared on the stage in 1973, billed as Peggy Whitton. In the early 1980s, she began to be billed as Margaret Whitton and made her Broadway debut in 1982's Steaming. After her seven year experiment with film, she returned to the stage, appearing on Broadway in And the Apple Doesn't Fall... (1995) and in the original, award-winning musical Marlene (1999), starring Siân Phillips as Marlene Dietrich. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Whitton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
as Molly
Major League (1989)
as Rachel Phelps
Baby Boom (1987)
as Executive In Conference Room (uncredited)
The Secret of My Success (1987)
as Vera Prescott
Little Monsters (1989)
as Holly Stevenson
Major League II (1994)
as Rachel Phelps
The Man Without a Face (1993)
as Catherine Palin
Ironweed (1987)
as Katrina
Trial by Jury (1994)
as Jane Lyle, Juror
Teenage Hitchhikers (1974)
as Sola Alcoa (as Peggy Whitton)
The Best of Times (1986)
as Darla Robinson
Love Child (1982)
as Jacki Steinberg
National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1982)
as First Lady Lousille Fogerty ("Success Wanters")
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994)
as Leslie Abramson
Kojak: None So Blind (1990)
as Michele Hogarth
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992)
as Melinda
The Summer My Father Grew Up (1991)
as Naomi
Parades (1972)
as Jane
Cat & Mousse (1987)
as Miriam