Actors - Frances Bay

Home > Listing Index > Actors > Frances Bay

	Actors - Frances Bay

Frances Bay is a character actress known for playing a variety of quirky elderly women.

Born in 1918 in Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada, Bay did not appear in films until the age of 60 when she played a small part in 1978's Foul Play, a comedy vehicle for Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. She went on to play small roles in films like The Karate Kid
, Big Top Pee-wee
and Twins
.

In 1986, Bay appeared in as the doddery aunt of Kyle MacLachlan's character in David Lynch's Blue Velvet
. This role seems to have endeared the actress to Lynch, who recast her in several subsequent works, including as a madam in Wild at Heart
and as the eerie Mrs. Tremond on Twin Peaks and its movie spin-off, Fire Walk With Me
.

Bay may also be familiar from her performance in the music video for Jimmy Fallon's comedy song, "Idiot Boyfriend".

Bay is perhaps best known today, however, for her performance as the hapless but loving grandmother of Adam Sandler's character in the 1996 film Happy Gilmore
. Additionally, Bay has the honor of appearing in the final episodes of three different long-lived sitcoms: Happy Days, Who's the Boss? and Seinfeld
.

On Seinfeld
, she played Mabel Choate, a wealthy, irritable old woman from whom Jerry stole a loaf of marbled rye bread in the episode "The Rye", in which Bay appeared with her former Twin Peaks co-stars Grace Zabriskie and Warren Frost. In a future episode, the consequences of Jerry's act cause his parents to be evicted from Del Boca Vista, their retirement community in Florida.

As a result of a car accident in Glendale, California she had to have part of her right leg amputated. She is apparently still married to Charles Bay, but it is not known whether or not they have or ever had any children.

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Frances Bay ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Frances Bay; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay