Norma Connolly

Norma Connolly was an American actress whose career spanned five decades, best known as Lena Karr Gilroy in The Young Marrieds and as Ruby Anderson on General Hospital. Born in Boston, she trained at the Leland Powers School of Drama with Morris Carnovsky, at the Actors Studio with Harold Clurman and Stella Adler, and earned a degree from Brandeis University in 1958. Her first television work came in 1951 on Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, and she went on to guest roles in series such as The Twilight Zone, Columbo, Dr. Kildare, I Dream of Jeannie, Little House on the Prairie and Charlie's Angels. Her films included The Wrong Man (1956) and The Other (1972). She played Ruby Anderson from 1979 to 1998, was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 1985, and appeared on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire and The Love of Four Colonels.