Potter, Maureen

Potter, Maureen
▪ 2005
Maria Philomena Potter 
      Irish actress (b. 1925, Fairview, near Dublin, Ire.—d. April 7, 2004, Dublin), was a popular entertainer for some seven decades and was particularly well regarded for her physically demanding comic roles. As a child she was an Irish dancing champion and excelled in comedy and pantomime, notably at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. Potter appeared with traveling troupes, in music halls and cabarets, on Irish television, and in films. Later in life she took on roles in more serious stage productions, including plays by Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett.

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