Bonnie Bartlett Biography

Fast Facts

• In 1986, both she and husband William Daniels won Emmy Awards for their performances in "St․ Elsewhere" a television series in which they played a married couple, making them the second married couple to win the award on the same night
• Served on the National Board of Directors for the Screen Actors Guild
• Determined to live out her father's dream of becoming an actor, she studied the craft with Lee Strasberg
• Has played the wife of her real life husband on multiple television shows, including "St․ Elsewhere," "Boy Meets World" and "Touched by an Angel․"
• Made a career primarily out of playing character parts on a variety of programs on television
• A plaque honoring her is displayed in the auditorium lobby at Moline High in her hometown of Moline, Illinois
• While her two adopted children were young, she focused primarily on raising them as a stay-at-home mother, accepting only small and infrequent parts