Marylouise Burke

Marylouise Burke is an American actress who began performing after moving to New York City at 32, following earlier work as a copy editor and research assistant. She grew up in Steelton, Pennsylvania, attended Lebanon Valley College and studied English literature at the University of Wisconsin, where she earned a master's degree. Her first off-Broadway appearance came in 1981 in The Broken Pitcher, and she went on to a long stage career that included Broadway turns in Inherit the Wind (1996), Into the Woods (2002), Is He Dead? (2007), Fish in the Dark (2015) and True West in 2018 and 2019. She won a 2000 Drama Desk Award for Fuddy Meers and was nominated again in 2003 for Kimberly Akimbo, and received a 2014 Obie Award for sustained excellence. On screen she played Lillian in Meet Joe Black (1998) and Miles's mother in Sideways (2004), and appeared in Ozark in 2020.