| Molly McGreevey | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mary Wheaton Paine |
| Occupation | Television actress |
| Spouse | Earl Hindman (1976-2003) (his death) |
Molly McGreevey (b. 1936[1]) is an American actress, who played Polly Longworth on the daytime television soap opera Ryan's Hope.
Born Mary Wheaton Paine, she is the daughter of Hugh Eustis Paine, Sr. (d. 1973[2]) and Helen Clirehugh Duncan Paine.[1] Her grandfather was the paper manufacturer and banker Augustus G. Paine, Jr. from New York City.[3]
Called "Molly", she married first to the stockbroker Thomas J. McGreevy of Kansas City, Missouri. Together they had three daughters, Pamela, Jessica and Barbara.[4] The couple divorced in the early 1970s, and she subsequently married Earl Hindman, a film and television actor who played detective Bob Reid on Ryan's Hope, and Wilson Wilson Jr. on Home Improvement. One of her first movies was in 1974 with Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue, where she played a salesgirl. She subsequently appeared as Polly Longworth in Ryan's Hope from 1977-1981.
She became an ordained Episcopal priest in the 1980s. She worked at Church of St. Luke in the Fields, Greenwich Village for many years, ministering to AIDS patients.[5] She and Hindman later moved to Stamford, Connecticut, where she worked as associate rector of St. Francis’ Church until her retirement.[5][6] Hindman died in Stamford in 2003. In 2008, she moved to a senior community near Rochester, New York.