Mary Gross (born March 25, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American comedian and actress best known for her four-year stint on Saturday Night Live from 1981 to 1985. Her credits also include minor roles on Animaniacs and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. She is the sister of Michael Gross, star of the 1980s sitcom Family Ties. Gross' trademark is her soft, treacly voice. She is an alumna of the Second City comedy troupe.

Movies

• Troop Beverly Hills
• Feds
• Baby Boom
• Casual Sex?
• Club Paradise
• Hot to Trot
• The Couch Trip

Recurring Characters on SNL

• Alfalfa, from SNL's recurring parody of The Little Rascals and assassin in the murder of Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat character.
• Siobahn Cahill, an Irish woman who reports on Irish events on Saturday Night News (Weekend Update's name when Brad Hall was cast as anchor). Coincidentally, in the 1990s, SNL would have two short-lived castmembers who have a piece of this recurring character's name ('Siobahn Fallon and Beth Cahill).
• Chi Chi, a Hispanic woman who hosts two fake public access shows (The Ghostbusters Show and Let's Watch TV) with her best friend, Consuela (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
• Celeste, a repressed wife married to an equally repressed man (played by Tim Kazurinsky)

Celebrity Impersonations

• Simone de Beauvoir
• Suzanne Somers
• Ann Landers
• Geraldine Ferraro
• Brooke Shields
• Lena Horne
• Harriet Nelson
• Jeane Dixon
• Mary Hart
• Dr. Ruth Westheimer
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Irlene Mandrell
• Mary Tyler Moore
• Margaret Thatcher
• Marilyn Monroe
• Pee Wee Herman
• Nancy Reagan
• Leslie Uggams

External link

• Mary Gross at the Internet Movie Database

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