Audra Lindley

Audra Lindley was an American actress, born in Los Angeles to actor parents, who began in theater with a West Coast company led by Max Reinhardt and made her Broadway debut in 1942 in Comes the Revelation. A steady television presence from the early 1960s, she played Sue Knowles on Search for Tomorrow and Aunt Liz Matthews on Another World, and had regular roles in the sitcoms Bridget Loves Bernie and Fay. Her greatest fame came as Helen Roper on Three's Company and its spin-off The Ropers. She received Golden Globe nominations in 1973 and 1979. Her films included Taking Off (1971), The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980), Cannery Row (1982), Best Friends (1982), Desert Hearts (1985), Troop Beverly Hills (1989), Sudden Death (1995), and The Relic (1997). She also appeared on Friends and, in her final role, as Cybill Shepherd's mother on Cybill.