Celebrity Biographies
Georgia Engel
She enjoyed enormous popularity in the United States at the time, as the timid and sweet Georgette Baxter, in the acclaimed sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, titled in Spain “La chica de la tele”. The actress Georgia Engel died on April 12, 2019 in Princeton, New Jersey, at the age of 70, without going to the hospital, since her confession, Christian Science, did not allow it.
Born on July 28, 1948, in Washington DC, Georgia Bright Engel was the daughter of a Coast Guard officer. She studied ballet from a very young age and graduated from Manoa University (Hawaii).
He began in the theater, first in Washington, and then in New York, in titles such as “Hello, Dolly” and “The House of Blue Leaves”, where he dazzled the famous actress, especially on television, Mary Tyler Moore , who attended to a performance with her husband, producer Grant Tinker. They both decided to recruit her for the third season of The Mary Tyler Show . She played Georgette Franklin Baxter, where she was the kindhearted girlfriend of Ted Baxter, the news anchor, where the lead, Mary Richards (Moore) serves as a producer. Curiously, in our country this fiction was not as widely accepted as its still-remembered spin-off, Lou Grant , would later obtain .
For her work, Georgia Engel earned two Emmy nominations. When the series ended, she accompanied one of her co-stars, Betty White , on The Betty White Show . She made her film debut with one of the leading roles in Hopeless Youth , Czech Milos Forman ‘s first film shot in the United States. For the rest, she appeared in minor titles, such as Funeral in Los Angeles , or Grown Ups 2 .
During the last twenty years he returned to the theater, lavishing himself on numerous productions despite his advanced age. He also appeared in well-known sitcoms, such as The Office and Two and a Half Men . All the details related to his private life are unknown.