Dena Dietrich

Dena Dietrich was an American actress who studied acting at HB Studio and worked steadily in television, film and theater. Born in Pittsburgh, she became widely recognized for playing Mother Nature in a string of Chiffon margarine commercials that ran from 1971 to 1979, where her line about it not being nice to fool Mother Nature turned into a catchphrase. On television she had regular parts as Grace Peterson in Adam's Rib, Dena Madison in Karen, Molly Gibbons in The Practice, Ethel Armbrewster in The Ropers and Pearl Newman in 13 East, with recurring work on Santa Barbara and All My Children and guest spots on NYPD Blue, Murphy Brown and The Golden Girls. Her films included The Wild Party (1975), The North Avenue Irregulars (1979) and History of the World, Part I (1981). She also appeared on Broadway and voiced the grandmother narrator at Epcot's Horizons ride. She died in 2020.