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Fran Brill (born September 30, 1946) [1] is an American retired actress and puppeteer, best known for her roles on Sesame Street, as well as playing Sally Hayes in the Hal Ashby film Being There (1979), Dana Mardukas in the Martin Brest film Midnight Run (1988) and Lily Marvin in the Frank Oz film What About Bob?
Welcome to the Official Fran Brill Website! Fran is an actress, voice-over performer, and a principal puppeteer on Sesame Street.
Fran Brill was born on 30 September 1946 in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for Sesame Street (1969), What About Bob? (1991) and Midnight Run (1988). She has been married to Robert Kelly since 1988. She was previously married to Clinton Edward Ramsden Jr.
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A native of Pennsylvania, Brill began her performing career in community theater, and in 1968, while in Atlanta, she joined the cast of the play Red, White and Maddox, which ridiculed segregationist governor Lester Maddox. The show proved somewhat controversial due to its political subject matter, but transferred to Broadway in 1969, and Brill move...
For Sesame Street, Brill initially played a variety of minor roles, usually supplying little girl voices, but quickly established her first notable character, Prairie Dawn: Brill also coined the character's name: "I heard of an actress with a similar name [Prairie Dorn] and Jim loves unusual names." Other characters followed, but it wasn't until 19...
While puppeteering kept her busy, Brill continued to pursue an acting career on stage and screen. On stage, concurrent with her Muppet work, Brill won two Drama Desk Awards, for What Every Woman Knows (1976) and Knuckles (1981). She received considerable acclaim for her role as Fran Bachman on the soap opera How to Survive a Marriage (1974-1975), i...
Sesame Street- assorted animated segmentsElmo the Musical: Stadium Announcer ("Athlete the Musical")Three Sesame Street Stories: Little Bird, Rodeo Rosie, Mrs. Washington, Squirmy, Saloon showgirl, Half-Baked Gazette reporterFive Sesame Street Stories: Prairie Dawn, Betty Lou, Narrator ("Big Bird Brings Spring to Sesame Street"), DoloresFran Brill is an Emmy Award winning performer who has had successful careers as an actress, voice-over performer, and puppeteer. She was the first female puppeteer hired by Jim Henson for Sesame Street and has created the iconic characters of Zoe and Prairie Dawn and many other loveable Muppets.
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Fran Brill was born on 30 September 1946 in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for Sesame Street (1969), What About Bob? (1991) and Midnight Run (1988). She has been married to Robert Kelly since 1988.
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