Lee Meriwether

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1935 age 0

   Born

2. 1966 age 31

   CreditBatman

• CWCynthia Watros2 titles
• ESElizabeth Sung2 titles
• ABAndrea Bowen2 titles
• DSDoug Savant2 titles
• RBRichard Burgi2 titles
• JNJeffrey Nordling2 titles
• MDMark Deklin2 titles
• JMJacqueline McKenzie2 titles
• JLJeremy Luke2 titles
• MGMary Pat Gleason2 titles

• Spouse

  • FAFrank Aletter

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Leslie Gottlieb from Little Ferry, NJ, USACC BY 2.0

• To this day I don't know why they voted for me. I'm hoping that it was because I chose a talent that made them sit up. I played a 70-year-old Irish mother lamenting the loss of her last son to the sea. I took off all my makeup, wore a shawl and my father's black socks — the costume I had worn when I'd done the play when I was in high school. It was the only thing I knew to do. I'm an actress, that's what I wanted to be.

  Lee Meriwether, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It's genes. My mother looked great at 96. And, you know, I realized that the more you're around, the more that gravity pulls you down. And so I started rubbing up. I wash my face rubbing up, I put my makeup on up and in the shower I rub up — anyplace I can. I'm going to the gym three times a week. That also helps. And it helps to have a good feeling about people. The laugh line is going to be there whether you like it or not, so keep it there — keep it in a laugh line.

  Lee Meriwether, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When I arrived, a hundred women were there [auditioning]... I raised my voice three registers, curled up in a chair, licked my hand and did ‘meow’s ,the director said, "I didn’t tell her to do any of that stuff" – but the next day I got the part. Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, I was so lucky to work with all of them.

  Lee Meriwether, CC BY-SA 4.0