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      • Charlotte Rae Lubotsky (April 22, 1926 – August 5, 2018) was an American character actress and singer whose career spanned sixty-six years. Rae was known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and its spin-off, The Facts of Life (in which she had the starring role from 1979 to 1986).
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  2. Jan 27, 2021 · Leachman was on The Facts of Life for two seasons, though. She took over when Charlotte Rae left after seven seasons. Here’s why Rae left and Leachman decided to join the show.

  3. Rae was known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and its spin-off, The Facts of Life (in which she had the starring role from 1979 to 1986). She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy in 1982.

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    A pancreatic cancer survivor, Rae continued to act while making guest appearances everywhere, especially TV Land, where her show, The Facts of Life (1979), won the 2011 award for Pop Culture Icon. Charlotte Rae died on August 5, 2018 at her home in Los Angeles, aged 92, from bone cancer, which had been diagnosed a year earlier.

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  5. Aug 6, 2018 · Aug. 6, 2018. Charlotte Rae, the quavery-voiced redhead who started out on Broadway but was best known as a warmhearted, wisecracking housemother in two hit 1980s sitcoms, died on Sunday at her...

  6. Height. 4′ 10½″ (1.49 m) Mini Bio. Charlotte Rae was born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky in 1926, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the middle daughter of three sisters, between Beverly and Mimi. Her parents, Esther (nee Ottenstein) and Meyer Lubotsky, were Russian Jewish immigrants. Her father owned an automobile tire business.

    • April 22, 1926
    • August 5, 2018
  7. Aug 6, 2018 · By Alex Johnson and Richie Duchon. LOS ANGELES — Charlotte Rae, who brought wisdom and wackiness in equal measure to the role of Mrs. Garrett, the housemother to a group of private school girls on...

  8. Aug 6, 2018 · Charlotte Rae, who had a six-decade career as an actress and was best known as the wise housemother on “The Facts of Life ,” died Sunday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 92.