Hattie Winston

Hattie Mae Winston (born March 3, 1945) is an American film, television and Broadway actress and voice actress. She is best known for her roles as Margaret Wyborn on Becker, Lucy Carmichael in Rugrats, The Rugrats Movie, and the spin off series All Grown Up!, Nurse Flowers in Sesame Street Home Video Visits The Hospital, and as a prominent cast member of the PBS children's series The Electric Company.

Early career[]

Winston was born in Lexington, Mississippi, and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, where she attended local schools, which were segregated at the time.^[1] Leaving the South, she began her career on stage in New York City. Winston starred in the Broadway hit The Tap Dance Kid; she also appeared on Broadway in Two Gentlemen of Verona, I Love My Wife, and The Me Nobody Knows. She was a member of the Negro Ensemble Company.

The Electric Company[]

In her later 20s and early 30s, Winston rose to prominence during the mid-1970s as a member of the cast of the PBS children's series The Electric Company, produced by the Children's Television Workshop. Her most notable character was Valerie the Librarian, who was the girlfriend of Easy Reader (portrayed by Morgan Freeman). She also played many villainess roles versus Spider-Man on the Spidey Super Stories sketches, such as the Fox, the Thumper, the Queen Bee, and the Queen of Diamonds.^[2] Winston joined the series during the third season (1973–1974), replacing Lee Chamberlin, and remained with the show until its conclusion in 1977.^[3]

Later career[]

In 1990 she was cast as Nurse Flowers in "Sesame Street Home Video Visits The Hospital". In the movie Big Bird must go to the hospital after he comes down with a lung infection. In 1993 Hattie Winston was cast as Lucy Carmichael in the popular Nickelodeon cartoon "Rugrats" and the hit 1998 movie "The Rugrats Movie". From the late 90's and into the early to mid 2000's Ms. Winston brilliantly played what was one of her most famous television roles, that of Margaret Wybourn in the well-known and long-running half- hour sitcom "Becker," about a family practitioner in the New York borough of The Bronx. Later on in the 2000's she reprised in a way the role of a lady named Margaret by playing Margaret Turk, the mother of Dr. Turk on the TV sitcom "Scrubs. After "Rugrats" came to an end Hattie reprised her role as Lucy Carmichael in the spin off series "All Grown Up!".

Filmography[]

References[]

External links[]

• Hattie Winston at IMDb
• Hattie Winston at the Internet Broadway Database
• Hattie Winston at the Internet Off-Broadway Database