Cathryn Damon

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Cathryn Lee Damon (September 11, 1930 - May 4, 1987) was an American actress, best known for her roles on television sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.

Born in Seattle, Washington, Damon moved to New York City at sixteen to pursue ballet and ultimately appeared in several Broadway productions, including Shinbone Alley, Foxy, Flora, The Red Menace, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Sweet Bird of Youth, and The Cherry Orchard.

Damon became familiar to television viewers as middle-class Mary Campbell on the primetime spoof of daytime soaps aptly entitled Soap from 1977 until 1981, followed by her role of Cassie Parker on Webster from 1984 until 1986.

Damon won an Emmy Award for Soap in 1980, but could not appear in person to receive the Award due to an actors' strike (which her former co-star Richard Mulligan actually referred to when he received his own Emmy more than a decade later for his role as Dr. Weston on the television series Empty Nest).

In 1986, she was diagnosed with cancer but continued acting in small roles up until shortly before her death. Her final role, as Kevin Bacon's mother in the movie She's Having a Baby, was released posthumously.

Damon was survived by her mother and sister. She claimed to have been married once, but offered no specifics. She is interred in Acacia Memorial Park in Seattle.