Margaret Whitton
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Margaret Whitton (born November 30, 1950) is an American stage, film, and television actress. From Philadelphia, Whitton did her primary film work between 1986 and 1993. Her most visible roles were that of baseball team owner Rachel Phelps in Major League (1989) and its sequel Major League II and as Michael J. Fox's hard-as-nails aunt by marriage in The Secret of My Succe$s (1987). She also appeared in the Robin Williams-Kurt Russell vehicle The Best of Times (1986) and in Mel Gibson's The Man Without a Face (1993).
She first noticeably appeared on the stage in 1973, billed as Peggy Whitton. In the early 1980's she began to be billed as Margaret and made her Broadway debut in 1982's Steaming. After her seven year experiment with film, she returned to the stage, appearing on Broadway in And the Apple Doesn't Fall... (1995) and in the original, award-winning musical Marlene (1999), starring Siân Phillips as Marlene Dietrich.
She is married to former Bear Stearn's co-president Warren Spector, a corporate casualty of the August 2007 Sub-Prime fall out.
