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Debra Spinney (née, Deborah Jean Gilroy, [1] [2] often referred to as Debi) is a former secretary for the Children's Television Workshop, and the wife and manager of Muppet Performer Caroll Spinney. She is credited as "For Big Bird," along with Kermit Love, in Big Bird in China, and "Special...
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- Caroll Spinney & Debra Gilroy Met On the Set of Sesame Street. Debra Gilroy Spinney joked to the New York Times in a 2018 feature that when she first met Caroll Spinney, she “couldn’t believe Big Bird was coming up and talking to me.”
- Debra Gilroy Chose a Secretary Job at Sesame Street Over a Managerial Position at a Playtex Bra Factory When She was 21. Debra Jean Gilroy explained how she began working at Sesame Street during an interview alongside husband Caroll Spinney in 2016.
- Debra Spinney Advised Would-Be Actors & Puppeteers to ‘Surround Yourself With What You’re Interested In’ To Increase the Odds Of Becoming Successful.
- Caroll Spinney Described His Marriage to Debra Gilroy as the Happiest Years Of His Life. Caroll Spinney and Debra Gilroy were married for 40 years before his death on December 8, 2019.
Spinney was married to his second wife, Debra Jean Gilroy, from 1979 until his death. In 2015, Spinney was diagnosed with dystonia , a neurological movement disorder that causes muscle contractions. [27]
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- Ed Spinney
- Caroll Edwin Spinney, December 26, 1933, Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Dec 9, 2019 · Then in 1972, he met Debra Gilroy on the set of Sesame Street. “I couldn’t believe Big Bird was coming up and talking to me,” she told the New York Times in 2018. Since she was 21, Gilroy had been a secretary for Children’s Television Workshop, the non-profit organisation that produced the long-running US hit show.
Dec 8, 2019 · In 1979, he married Debra Jean Gilroy, who was working for the Children’s Television Workshop when they met in 1972. Besides his second wife and three children, survivors include several ...
Dec 10, 2019 · Spinney married Janice Spinney in 1960. They had three children before divorcing in 1971. He married his second wife, Debra Jean Gilroy, in 1979 and remained married to her until his death.
Dec 8, 2019 · Mr. Spinney’s first marriage, in 1960, ended in divorce. In 1979, he married Debra Jean Gilroy, an employee in the Muppets office.
