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Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film, and television actress. Hers remains the shortest acting performance in a film to win an Oscar. In her winning role in the 1976 film Network, she was on screen for five minutes and forty seconds. She also received an Emmy nomination for her role in The Dain Curse. Straight can also be recognized as Dr. Lesh in Poltergeist.
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as Adrienne's Mother

as Maisie Verdurin

as Margaret Channing

as Margaret Sloan
as Claire Hastings
as Marion Creighton

as Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy · 3 episodes

as Queen Veronica / Woman in Museum
as Ruth
as Marjorie Andrews · 3 episodes
as Kate Erling

as Marion Hillyard

as Alice Dain Leggett · 2 episodes

as Beatrice Richmond

as Joanna Sanford

as Mrs. Bendeson · 1 episode
as Louise Schumacher
as Hippolyta · 2 episodes
as Dr. Martha Richards Zubrovnik · 1 episode

1 episode

as Mrs. Burns
1 episode
as Pamela Rainey · 1 episode
as Mrs. Campbell · 1 episode
as Elena De Amundo · 2 episodes
as Mother Christophe
as Ann Johns · 1 episode

as Theora
as Nancy Staples
as Cynthia Fortnam · 1 episode

1 episode

as Goneril
as Claire Fortness
as Claire Trent · 1 episode
as Pamela Baxter · 2 episodes
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