Celia Weston Biography

Fast Facts

• Before pursuing acting, a profession she feared her late father would not have approved of, she enrolled in college to study psychology
• Received theater training in both New York and London
• Began her acting career in 1979, and made her Broadway (Loose Ends), TV (The Single Life) and film (Honky Tonk Freeway) debuts all within three years
• Has said that her role in the 1980s sitcom Alice hindered her film career
• Although she had initially rejected the role, she admitted that "the money became so phenomenal that I just had to do it
• " Beat out Delta Burke, Dianne Wiest and Kathy Bates to secure the role of Cameron's mother on the ABC sitcom Modern Family