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Zara Frances Cully (January 26, 1892 – February 28, 1978) was an American actress. Cully was best known for her role as Olivia 'Mother Jefferson' Jefferson on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons, which she portrayed from the series beginning in 1975 until her death in 1978.
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Character played by: Zara Cully. Mother Jefferson is the mother to George Jefferson, mother in-law to Louise Jefferson, grandmother to Lionel Jefferson and the great-grandmother of Jessica Jefferson on The Jeffersons.
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Zara Cully was born on 26 January 1892 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for The Jeffersons (1975), Sugar Hill (1974) and All in the Family (1971). She was married to James M. Brown. She died on 28 February 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Jan 26, 2022 · Acclaimed as being “one of the world’s greatest elocutionists” in the 1940s in New York City, the five-foot-two, 125-pound actress did not achieve real fame until she secured the scene-stealing role of Olivia “Mother Jefferson” Jefferson on the hit CBS sitcom, “The Jeffersons.”
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Zara Frances Cully Brown (January 26, 1892 – February 28, 1978), who adopted the stage name Zara Cully was an American character actress, known for her portrayal of the irascible Mother Olivia Jefferson on the popular long-running CBS-TV sitcom The Jeffersons.
Zara Cully - Prior to portraying George's mother Olivia Jefferson on the long-running sitcom, actress Zara Cully appeared as a guest star on such classic TV series Days of Our Lives and Mod...
