Christine Ebersole - Air date: 09-18-07

Christine Ebersole (b. 21 February 1953) is a two-time Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. Ebersole was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. After appearances on Ryan's Hope in 1977 and 1980, she got her first big role as part of the cast of Saturday Night Live during Dick Ebersol's (no relation) first full season as executive producer (season seven; 1981-1982) where she was a Weekend Update co-anchor for Brian Doyle-Murray (sometimes switching places with fellow castmember Mary Gross), and after this starred for several seasons on One Life to Live and Valerie. Her film roles to date have included Mac and Me (1988), My Girl 2 (1994), Richie Rich (1994), 'Til There Was You (1997), My Favorite Martian (1999), and as the diva Katerina Cavalieri in Miloš Forman's Amadeus (1984). Ebersole has also been part of the cast of several failed television series, including Rachel Gunn, R.N. (1992) in which she played the title role, alongside Will & Grace's Megan Mullally. She has also had notable guest roles in shows such as Will & Grace, The Nanny, Just Shoot Me, Murphy Brown and Ally McBeal. Ebersole has found her biggest fame on Broadway. Her most noted roles have included an appearance in Gore Vidal's The Best Man (2000), Millicent Jordan in Dinner at Eight (2002) (for which she was nominated for a Tony Award), M'Lynn in Steel Magnolias (2005), and the role for which she won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical - Dorothy Brock in the 2001 revival of 42nd Street. In 2006, Ebersole took the dual role of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale ("Big Edie") and Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie") in Grey Gardens, a new musical based upon the movie of the same name. After a sold-out off-broadway run, Ebersole remained with the roles when the play moved to Broadway in fall 2006. For this role, she has received rave reviews. She also earned her second Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for this role. Ebersole has been married twice, to Peter Bergman, and to her present spouse Bill Moloney, with whom she has adopted three children. She is also the aunt of Janel Moloney. She currently lives in Maplewood, New Jersey with her family.
[edit] Political Commentary According to The New York Post, on February 20, 2007, Ebersole said on San Diego-based John Conner's radio show: "I think we want to look at our government as sort of like a benevolent father that's going to take care of us and be kind to us and treat us well, and I think it's too much for our people to conceptualize, and I'm sure that's what happened to people in Nazi Germany."[1] On February 20, 2007, Ebersole said, on San Diego-based Mark Dice's radio show, that 9/11 was engineered by a faction within the Bush administration.[2]
[edit] Celebrity Impersonations on SNL
• Mary Travers
• Cheryl Tiegs
• Barbara Mandrell
• Princess Diana
• Rona Barrett
• Marge Howard
• Britt Ekland
[edit] External links
• ChristineEbersole.com
• Christine Ebersole at the Internet Movie Database
• Christine Ebersole at the Internet Broadway Database
• Production: Grey Gardens Working in the Theatre by the American Theatre Wing, November 2006
• Performance Working in the Theatre video from the American Theatre Wing, September 2001
• Star File: Christine Ebersole at Broadway.com
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Christine Ebersole

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[pattigram]

Harold Channing is a terrible interviewer. He is more interested in sharing his own views more than listening to the views of the person he is interviewing. Christine Ebersole was obviously frustrated by his interruptions, and rightly so.

[NunsAndPoses]

hilarious... what an ass I wish she would shove her shoe in his mouth

[lostdiva79]

Christine has the patience of a saint.

[morgymorg85]

It would be an excellent interview if he would stop interrupting her!! If you are going to interview someone, actually let them speak!! Christine, Thank you for the eye rolls because I'm completely with on all of them!! Harold, put a sock in it please, we are watching this to hear Christine not to hear you interrupt her :)

[ashmb2]

That guy drank a little too much of "the sauce" before he sat down for this interview . . . I'm hoping this isn't his "normal" (as in SOBER) interview style. I mean seriously, I'm pretty sure the woman is being interviewed and not the other way around . . . ;)

[mmb1998]

He talks too much, and half way through you can tell Christine is without patience.

[jjsharell]

This is AMAZING. The guy had NO IDEA who she was -- at the 20 something mark he just doesn't even know Grey Gardens or her Tony wins or TV work -- NOTHING! Hysterical, sad - and God Bless Christine for not walking off!!!!

[mamaschristmasbunny]

Thank you for asking and sorry for my long answer. I don't do this in disrespect at all.

I cry inside for the human kind. Too many of us despise ourselves so much. And 9/11 is an example. I am a Christian. But I myself ask, "when does the justice come?" Most Christians suck. Most people suck. I don't see the light in our humanity.

9/11 truthers at least try in their mix of religions and races. So to say- I am a 9/11 truther. I want to hear all point of views.

[mamaschristmasbunny]

That is what I feel about 9/11 truth and 9/11. It makes me sick inside that it is good enough for people, to take the words of proven liars and thieves. 9/11 truthers want to hear truth and have peace in their lives; and get called liars and thieves.

While the thieves are praised for their duplicity. Whether one believes in Jesus or not; his storied message rangs true. Wisdom is proved right by her actions.

Well, Jesus was called a glutton and a drunkard for eating with tax collectors

[mamaschristmasbunny]

I apologize for being longwinded. But 9/11 is wearisome. You could have George Bush standing there with a remote control, and yelling people and a TV audience and he yells "I am going to blow-up the towers. People would still not believe it.

When someone like you or someone like me, dare to even ask what someone feels about that. I can tell that you are inquisitve. And probably have a high IQ, unlike me.

People have their own personal death wish; and don't anyone dare interrupt it there.

[mamaschristmasbunny]

If' someone wants to believe that science changes its format and boundaries to subsidize ignorance? Than that is 9/11.

Kerosene melting steel. Aluminum shell's of planes going through buildings. All was missing was like Bruce Willis' "yipee, kayeh!" to end that movie production.

For 9/11 Truth- looking after their families is carelessness to some. As for me -I am for any who decides it is best to look after your own well being. It is American way..

9/11 truth, or truth there in I am for.

[mamaschristmasbunny]

Answering @PaulaGloria- or to her(:

Being in this world that comes into our view everyday there is really seemingly no reason for any kind of truth for most people. Whether it starts with 9/11or any act.

Too many and their truth begins and ends with the information that "they" want to hear. Who has come up for trial, who has seen any lack of due process? Who has seen anyone stand for truth, for- 9/11?

No Fed...No local...No state... No due process. Who has standed trial, beyond us?