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She is known for her Emmy Award-winning role as Sergeant Lucy Bates on the television series Hill Street Blues. As of March 2018, Thomas is one of just two directors (and the only solo director) to have multiple films on the list of seventeen highest-US-grossing female-directed films.
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HILL STREET BLUES, Betty Thomas, 1981-87. ©NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection. Very few careers start with a bang but that doesn’t mean they’re not destined for something big. When Thomas’s troupe moved west so did she and her breakout into film was with small bit parts in low-budget films.
Ironically, Betty achieved her stardom not in comedy but in hard-hitting drama. Doing a complete about face as tough-talking Officer Lucille Bates on the hit police series Hill Street Blues (1981) , she displayed both grit and vulnerability as she stood nose-to-nose alongside the rest of the male-oriented precinct.
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Nov 15, 1982 · November 15, 1982. Betty Thomas is a big woman. A BIIIIIIIGGG woman. She plays the wisecracking cop Lucy Bates on the hit television series "Hill Street Blues," and looks like Harpo Marx...
Jun 17, 2021 · Thomas had already earned a supporting actress Emmy for her role as Sgt. Lucy Bates on Hill Street Blues and had been directing TV series such as Doogie Howser, M.D. and Parenthood for...
