Margaret Ladd
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Margaret Ladd is an American actress born on November 8, 1945, in Providence, Rhode Island, whose career has spanned stage, film, and television across several decades. She is most widely recognized for her portrayal of Emma Channing on the CBS primetime soap opera Falcon Crest, a role she held throughout the series' entire nine-year run from 1981 to 1990.
Ladd began her professional acting career in the mid-1960s, appearing on the daytime soap opera A Flame in the Wind as Jane Skerba from 1964 to 1965. Her Broadway career ran from 1966 to 1970 and included appearances in The Great Indoors, Leda Had a Little Swan, and Sheep on the Runway, the last of which is also noted in external sources alongside My Sweet Charlie as among her stage credits.
Her film work includes a role in The Friends of Eddie Coyle in 1973 and Robert Altman's A Wedding in 1978, as well as supporting parts in I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, The Escape Artist, and The Whales of August. On television, she made appearances on series including Taxi and Quincy, M.E., and co-starred in a number of made-for-television movies. After a hiatus of fourteen years, she returned to the screen in a small part in What's Up, Scarlet? in 2005. In 2014, she appeared in two episodes of the Amazon comedy-drama Mozart in the Jungle, and in 2016 she was cast in Woody Allen's Amazon miniseries Crisis in Six Scenes.
Ladd married playwright Lyle Kessler in 1977, and the two have two children together.
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