R.I.P. Lois de Banzie

[Big Magilla]

Interestingly, she has 70 credits on IMDb. to 41 for her better remembered aunt who died forty years ago at 71.

[Reza]

Scottish-born actress Lois de Banzie, 91, died on April 3, 2021 in in Greenbrae, California. De Banzie received a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award nomination for Morning’s at Seven (1980), and was also seen on Broadway in The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, Da, and The Octette Bridge Club. Her best known film role was as Eleanor Roosevelt in Annie, but she was ubiquitous in character roles on the large and small screens: Night Gallery, Tootsie, Newhart, Cheers, Arachnophobia, Sister Act, Addams Family Values, Home Improvement. De Banzie was the niece of British stage and screen actress Brenda de Banzie