Lorraine Gary

Actor: Lorraine Gary

Born: Aug 16, 1937 in New York City, New York
Occupation: Actor
Active: '60s-'70s
Major Genres: Mystery, Drama
Career Highlights: Jaws, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Jaws 2
First Major Screen Credit: Jaws (1975)

Biography

Columbia University alumnus Lorraine Gary had racked up an impressive list of stage credentials by the time she began appearing in made-for-TV movies in 1971. In both her small- and big-screen work, the versatile Gary has seldom offered the same characterization twice--with one notable exception. Having achieved movie fame for her performance as Ellen Foley, wife of sheriff Roy Scheider, in the blockbuster Jaws (1975), Gary felt obliged to revive the character in the two Jaws sequels, produced respectively in 1979 and 1987 (the latter picture, Jaws-The Revenge, compelled Gary to emerge from a brief retirement). For well over three decades, Lorraine Gary has been married to MCA executive Sidney Scheinberg. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Lorraine Gary
Born	Lorraine Gottfried August 16, 1937 (1937-08-16) (age 72) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1967–1987

Lorraine Gary (born Lorraine Gottfried; August 16, 1937) is an actress best known for her role as Ellen Brody in Jaws, Jaws 2, and Jaws: The Revenge. She also appeared in 1941 and Car Wash.

Gary was a guest star on seven episodes of the TV series Ironside, among them "Tom Dayton Is Loose Among Us", in which she played the substitute librarian Miss Kirk, who pushes the unstable Tom Dayton too hard, and "In Search of an Artist," as a woman with a drinking problem who may have been involved in a murder.

She had roles in a number of other television series including Night Gallery, McCloud, Kojak and The F.B.I..

She is married to entertainment industry executive Sidney Sheinberg, with whom she had two children. The character Lorraine McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy is named after her.^[1]

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^ Back to the Future DVD audio track of the Q&A session

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