Audrey Meadows Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy at the 1995 American Comedy Awards
• Started her career as a vocalist, singing with the Civic Light Opera companies in Detroit, Louisville, Ky․, and Chicago after appearing in Carnegie Hall as a coloratura soprano at the age of 16
• A skilled comedian, she is best remembered for playing Alice on "The Honeymooners․"
• Departed from her normal style and stretched her dramatic muscles in several straight roles in "Play of the Week," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and other productions
• Was the Director of the First National Bank of Denver for 11 years
• Was the first celebrity who guest starred on "The Simpsons" to die
• Was the only person on the cast of "The Honeymooners" whose contract required her to be paid for television re-runs and the sales of episodes