. . . Where Are They Now? . . .
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Thank you for joining me today! This week we are catching up with Linda Kelsey, who starred on such shows as Emergency! and Lou Grant. Where has she been in recent years? Let's find out...

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Melissa

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Theresa Saldana: She played Lenore LaMotta in the movie "Raging Bull" and the wife of the Commish in the TV series "The Commish"

Kent McCord: Played Officer Jim Reed in the TV series "Adam-12"

Richard Widmark: Played psychotic killer Tommy Udo in the movie "Kiss of Death", also appeared in "Judgment at Nuremburg", "The Bedford Incident", "Madigan", "The Long Ships" and many other movies

(Answer at the bottom)
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Linda Kelsey
Learn More About Linda Kelsey on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: July 28, 1946, Minneapolis, Minnesota

CLAIM TO FAME: She is best known for her portrayl of Billie Newman on the television series Lou Grant.

FAMILY LIFE:
Husband: William Grivna (m. 1967, div. 1972)
Husband: Glenn Strand (m. 1979, two children)

INFO: Kelsey began her career on stage in her hometown of Minneapolis, but she later headed to Los Angeles and won roles on television shows like Emergency!, The Rookies, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, Spencer's Pilots, Quincy M.E., and The Rockford Files.

She found success when the producers of the television series Lou Grant gave her the part of crusading reporter Billie Newman. She won five consecutive Emmy Award nominations (1978 through 1982) for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, losing four times to her Lou Grant costar Nancy Marchand and once to Kristy McNichol in Family.

Lou Grant went off the air in 1982 and Kelsey went on to play the lead role in the sitcom Day by Day (1988) as a woman who runs a daycare center out of her home. The show ran for two seasons.

In the 1990s, she made a guest appearance in the TV movie The Babysitter's Seduction and on several episodes of Murder, She Wrote.

WHERE IS SHE NOW: Kelsey returned to Minneapolis after her TV career slowed down, and began appearing in regional theater productions. She played the title role of Mary Stuart at the Park Square Theater.

In 2009, she played Sue Ann Nivens for a week in a Minneapolis theatre company's restaging of The Mary Tyler Moore Show scripts, including the episode in which she originally appeared.

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CREDITS:

2010 The Egg Timer (short) (completed)...Ruth

2009 Into Temptation...Corrine Buerlein

1997 Orleans (TV series)
When the Saints Go Marching in (1997)

1996 Touched by an Angel (TV series)...Harriet Miller
Something Blue (1996)

1985-1996 Murder, She Wrote (TV series)...Diana Simms / Ellen Levering / Mary Stamm
Track of a Soldier (1996) ... Ellen Levering
Jessica Behind Bars (1985)... Mary Stamm
Capitol Offense (1985) ... Diana Simms

1996 The Babysitter's Seduction (TV movie)...Alice Winston

1995 If Someone Had Known (TV movie)...Ellen Liner

1995 ER (TV series)...Grace Holsten
Feb 5, '95 (1995)

1994 Matlock (TV series)...Ellen Barrett
The Accused (1994)

1993 A Family Torn Apart (TV movie)...Maureen Hannigan

1993 A Place to Be Loved (TV movie)...Liz Russ

1991 White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (TV movie)...Anne 'Mac' McMahon

1991 Sessions (TV series)...Carol

1990 Father Dowling Mysteries (TV series)...Sybil Aspell
The Vanishing Victim Mystery (1990)

1989 Midnight Caller (TV series)...Joanne Reming
End of Innocence (1989)

1989 The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV series)...Lydia Hadley
The Veldt (1989)

1988-1989 Day by Day (TV series)...Kate Harper

1988 CBS Schoolbreak Special (TV series)...Susan Palmer
Home Sweet Homeless (1988)

1987 The Twilight Zone (TV series)...Valerie Richman (segment "The Girl I Married")
Song of the Younger World/The Girl I Married (1987) â?¦ Valerie Richman (segment "The Girl I Married")

1987 Baby Girl Scott (TV movie)...Jean Gelson

1987 Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder (TV mini-series)...Elaine

1985 St. Elsewhere (TV series)
Haunted (1985)

1984 His Mistress (TV movie)...Katherine Beck

1984 Attack on Fear (TV movie)...Cathy Mitchell

1977-1982 Lou Grant (TV series)...Billie Newman

1980 A Perfect Match (TV movie)...Miranda McLloyd

1976-1978 M*A*S*H (TV series)...Lt. Mickey Baker
Our Finest Hour (1978)
The Nurses (1976)

1977 The Streets of San Francisco (TV series)...Susan Harper
Let's Pretend We're Strangers (1977)

1977 Something for Joey (TV movie)...Joyce Cappelletti, Narrator

1977 Westside Medical (TV series)
Tears for a Two Dollar Wine

1977 Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (TV movie)...Lucy Mercer

1977 Quincy M.E. (TV series)...Sue Courtland
...The Thigh Bone's Connected to the Knee Bone...

1977 Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)...Gerry
The Mask of Adonis (1977)

1977 Gibbsville (TV series)
All I've Tried to Be (1977)

1974-1976 Barnaby Jones (TV series)...Cathy Lou Hopkins / Linda Glover
Voice in the Night (1976)
Dark Homecoming (1974)

1976 Most Wanted (TV series)...Beth Gordon
The Slaver (1976)

1976 Captains and the Kings (TV mini-series)...Peg

1976 The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (TV movie)...Mary Harlan

1976 Bert D'Angelo/Superstar (TV series)...Addy
A Noise in the Streets (1976)

1976 Eleanor and Franklin (TV movie)...Lucy Mercer

1976 Starsky and Hutch (TV series)...Ellie Cole
The Hostages (1976)

1972-1975 Emergency! (TV series)...Victim / Pam Burke

1975 Harry O (TV series)...Karen Dorland
Mayday (1975)

1975 The Texas Wheelers (TV series)...Mavis
The Rebel (1975)

1974 The Rockford Files (TV series)...Louise Henderson
The Dexter Crisis (1974)

1974 Mary Tyler Moore (TV series)...Gloria Munson
A New Sue Ann (1974)

1974 The Midnight Man...Betty

1974 Sorority Kill (TV movie)

1973 The Picture of Dorian Gray (TV movie)...Beatrice Hallward

To see Then & Now pictures of Linda Kelsey, visit: Celebrity Nooz

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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Theresa Saldana - ALIVE
Born: 08/20/1954

Kent McCord - ALIVE
Born: 09/26/1942

Richard Widmark - DEAD
Born: 12/26/1914 Died: 03/24/2008

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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
6/13
Mehdi Hassan, 84, Pakistani ghazal singer.

6/12
Marwan Arafat, 67, Syrian footballer and referee.
Philip H. Corboy, 87, American lawyer.
Henry Hill, 69, American mobster, inspiration for the movie Goodfellas.
Elinor Ostrom, 78, American economist and Nobel laureate, cancer.
Adrián Otero, Argentine singer and composer (Memphis La Blusera), car crash.
Pahino, 89, Spanish footballer.
Frank Walker, 69, Australian politician, MP for Robertson (1990-1996) and judge, cancer.
Don Woods, 84, American meteorologist and cartoonist, cancer.

6/11
Lee Allen, 77, American Olympic wrestler (1956, 1960) and coach (1980), heart failure.
Hector Bianciotti, 82, Argentine writer.
Dave Boswell, 67, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins).
Roger Jongewaard, 76, American baseball scout (Seattle Mariners), heart attack.
Nalle Knutsson, 69, Swedish designer and revue director, liver cancer.
Jos van der Linden, 64, Dutch film producer.
Alan Permutt, 72, American physician, diabetes and Wolfram syndrome researcher, kidney and lung cancer.
Ann Rutherford, 94, Canadian-born American actress (Gone with the Wind, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty).
Wayne Roberts, 61, American graffiti artist, complications of liver disease.
Teofilo Stevenson, 60, Cuban boxer and Olympic champion (1972, 1976, 1980), heart attack.