Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1929 – February 23, 2019) was an American film, theater, and television actress, and director. Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on Coach and Lois Whelan, the mother of Debra Barone, on Everybody Loves Raymond. She guest starred on a number of TV shows including True Blood, Strong Medicine, Providence, The Love Boat, The Bionic Woman (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bob New hart Show, Mannix, and Gunsmoke. She had supporting roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), and Overboard (1987). She also voiced Lizzie in the Cars trilogy by Disney/Pixar. Some info from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Filmography

• 2018Frank and Ava — Betty
• 2017Cars 3 — Lizzie (voice)
• 2014The Radiator Springs 500½ — Lizzie (voice)
• 2012Time Travel Mater — Lizzie (voice)
• 2011Cars 2 — Lizzie (voice)
• 2011Collaborator — Irene Longfellow
• Harry's Law — Gloria Gold
• Pound Puppies — Mildred (voice)
• 2008Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales — Lizzie (voice)
• True Blood — Caroline Bellefleur
• 2007A Grandpa for Christmas — Roxie Famosa
• 2006Cars — Lizzie (voice)
• 2006Mater and the Ghostlight — Lizzie (voice)
• 2003Beethoven's 5th — Crazy Cora Wilkens
• 2002Mr. St. Nick — Queen Carlotta
• 2000How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale — Shatzie
• 2000Living in Fear — Mrs. Ford
• Strong Medicine — Cicely Nordeco
• 2000The Perfect Nanny — Mrs. McBride
• Providence — Rose Bidwell
• 1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Desk Clerk at Mint Hotel
• The Wild Thornberrys — Dugong (voice)
• 1997Ms. Scrooge — Maude Marley
• Everybody Loves Raymond — Lois Whelan
• Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story — Hedda Hopper
• 1994The Spy Within — Dr. Pamela Schilling
• 1993Amore! — Mildred Schwartz
• 1993The Elvira Show — Minerva
• Batman: The Animated Series — Connie (voice)
• 1992Grass Roots — Emma Carr
• 1992Inside Monkey Zetterland — Honor Zetterland
• 1991Deception: A Mother’s Secret — Geena Milner
• 1991The Perfect Tribute — Farm Woman
• The Upper Hand — Madame Alexandra
• 1990When Will I Be Loved? — Barbara Patterson
• Coach — Doris Sherman
• 1988Lady in White — Amanda
• 1988Save the Dog!
• 1987Overboard — Edith Mintz
• 1986Christmas Snow — Mrs. Mutterance
• 1985Brazil — Mrs. Ida Lowry
• Girls On Top — Goldie
• 1985Shadey — Lady Constance Landau
• The Comedy Factory — Mildred Deegan
• Who's the Boss? — Mona Robinson, Director
• 1983Jack and the Beanstalk — Jack's Mother
• Cagney & Lacey — Mona Robinson
• Faerie Tale Theatre — Jack's Mother
• 1982For Lovers Only — Bea Winchell
• 1982Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story — Frances Clooney
• World War III — Dorothy Longworth
• 1981Time Bandits — Mrs. Ogre
• 1980Scout's Honor — Pearl Bartlett
• $weepstake$ — Lynn
• Benson — Jessica Tate, Director
• 1979Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker — Elaine Thurston
• 1978Getting Married — Vera Lesser
• Pearl — Mrs. Sally Colto
• 1977Little Ladies of the Night — Miss Colby
• Meeting of Minds
• Soap — Jessica Tate
• The Love Boat — Harriet Darnell Stevens, Vivian Endler
• 1976Baby Blue Marine — Mrs. Hudkins
• 1976Family Plot — Mrs. Maloney
• 1976James Dean — Claire Folger
• 1976Liza’s Pioneer Diary — Aunt Sara
• Spencer's Pilots
• The Bionic Woman
• 1976Wanted: The Sundance Woman — Mattie Riley
• 1975Cage Without a Key — Mrs. Little
• Joe Forrester
• 1975The Family Nobody Wanted — Mrs. Bittner
• 1975The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant — Nurse Katherine Gunther
• 1975The Hindenburg — Mrs. Mildred Breslau
• 1975The Legend of Lizzie Borden — Emma Borden
• 1974Dr. Max — Libby Oppel
• Harry O
• 1974Larry — Maureen Whitten
• 1974Locusts — Claire Fletcher
• Petrocelli — Nancy Berwick
• 1974The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman — Lady at House
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Middy
• Adam's Rib — Martha Layne
• Barnaby Jones — Edna Morrison
• The Snoop Sisters — Cissy Prine
• The Bob Newhart Show — Dr. Webster
• The Rookies
• 1971The Hospital — Marilyn Mead
• Medical Center — Rachel Weldman
• Mannix — Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud, Martha Cole
• Gunsmoke — Ena Spratt
• 1955Wine of Morning — Irene

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2008What Is Brazil? — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest, Self - Guest / Mona Robinson
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee
• Golden Globe Awards — Self, Self - Nominee