Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1929 – February 23, 2019) was an American film, theater, and television actress, and director.
Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on Coach and Lois Whelan, the mother of Debra Barone, on Everybody Loves Raymond. She guest starred on a number of TV shows including True Blood, Strong Medicine, Providence, The Love Boat, The Bionic Woman (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bob Newhart Show, Mannix, and Gunsmoke.
She had supporting roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), and Overboard (1987). She also voiced Lizzie in the Cars trilogy by Disney/Pixar.
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as Betty
as Lizzie (voice)
as Lizzie (voice)
as Lizzie (voice)
as Irene Longfellow
as Lizzie (voice)
as Gloria Gold(1 ep)
as Mildred (voice)(1 ep)
as Lizzie (voice)
as Caroline Bellefleur(1 ep)
as Self
as Roxie Famosa
as Lizzie (voice)
as Lizzie (voice)
as Self - Guest(2 eps)
as Self - Guest / Mona Robinson(1 ep)
as Crazy Cora Wilkens
as Queen Carlotta
as Mrs. Ford
as Cicely Nordeco(1 ep)
as Mrs. McBride
as Rose Bidwell(2 eps)
as Dugong (voice)(1 ep)
as Desk Clerk at Mint Hotel
as Maude Marley
as Lois Whelan(14 eps)
as Hedda Hopper(2 eps)
as Dr. Pamela Schilling
as Mildred Schwartz
as Minerva
as Honor Zetterland
as Connie (voice)(1 ep)
as Emma Carr
as Geena Milner
as Farm Woman
as Barbara Patterson
as Madame Alexandra(1 ep)
as Doris Sherman(22 eps)
as Amanda
as Edith Mintz
as Mrs. Mutterance
as Goldie(1 ep)
as Mildred Deegan(1 ep)
as Lady Constance Landau
as Mrs. Ida Lowry
as Mona Robinson(196 eps)
as Jack's Mother
as Frances Clooney
as Bea Winchell
as Jack's Mother(1 ep)
as Mona Robinson(1 ep)
as Dorothy Longworth(2 eps)
as Mrs. Ogre
as Pearl Bartlett
as Elaine Thurston
as Jessica Tate(2 eps)
as Lynn(1 ep)
as Mrs. Sally Colto(3 eps)
as Vera Lesser
as Harriet Darnell Stevens(1 ep)
as Vivian Endler(2 eps)
as Jessica Tate(85 eps)
as Miss Colby
as Aunt Sara
as Mattie Riley
as Mrs. Hudkins
as Mrs. Maloney
as Claire Folger
as Mrs. Mildred Breslau
as Nurse Katherine Gunther
as Mrs. Little
as Mrs. Bittner
as Emma Borden
as Lady at House
as Claire Fletcher
as Nancy Berwick(1 ep)
as Maureen Whitten
as Libby Oppel
as Middy(1 ep)
as Cissy Prine(1 ep)
as Martha Layne(1 ep)
as Edna Morrison(1 ep)
as Dr. Webster(1 ep)
as Marilyn Mead
as Rachel Weldman(1 ep)
as Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud(1 ep)
as Martha Cole(1 ep)
as Self - Nominee(1 ep)
as Ena Spratt(1 ep)
as Irene
as Self - Nominee(2 eps)
as Self(1 ep)