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Phyllis Somerville is an American stage, screen, and television actress. Her most prominent role to date was as the mother of the sexual predator played by Jackie Earle Haley in 2006's Little Children.
She made her debut in the musical Over Here on Broadway, which starred Janie Sell, and the then-surviving Andrews Sisters (Maxene, who has since passed on, and Patty). She has a long history of appearing both on and off-Broadway and outside New York; most recently in 2003 as "Emily Dickinson/Vera" in The Psychic Life of Savages, a play by Amy Freed (Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, Connecticut). Her Broadway roles[1] include:
- 'night, Mother as Jessie Cates (1983 - 1984)
- Once in a Lifetime as Miss Chasen (1978)
- Over Here! as Wilma (1974 - 1975)
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