Margaret Whitton

Margaret Whitton
Margaret Whitton in Major League (1989)
Born	Margaret Ann Whitton (1949-11-30)November 30, 1949 Fort Meade, Maryland, U.S.
Died	December 4, 2016(2016-12-04) (aged 67) Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
Cause of death	Cancer
Other names	Peggy Whitton
Occupation	Actress, director
Years active	1965–2016
Spouse(s)	William Russell (divorced) Warren Spector

Margaret Ann Whitton (November 30, 1949 – December 4, 2016) was an American stage, film, and television actress.

Whitton was born in Fort Meade, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. She first noticeably appeared on the stage in 1973, billed as Peggy Whitton. Her first work was on the New York stage, where she worked as a dog walker between parts. In the early 1980s, she began to be billed by her birth name and made her Broadway debut in 1982's Steaming.

Whitton did her primary film work between 1986 and 1993. Her most visible roles were that of Michael J. Fox's character's under-appreciated aunt-by-marriage in The Secret of My Success (1987), and as the spiteful baseball team owner Rachel Phelps in Major League (1989), and its sequel, Major League II (1994). Whitton also appeared in the Robin Williams-Kurt Russell vehicle The Best of Times (1986) and in Mel Gibson's The Man Without a Face (1993). Her other film roles included parts in National Lampoon Goes to the Movies (1982), Love Child (1982) and 9½ Weeks (1986) as Molly.

Whitton worked as a television actress, with appearances in the soap operas One Life to Live and The Doctors. Her first primetime role was in CBS's 1985 dramedy Hometown. In 1989, Whitton played a divorcee in the short-lived ABC comedy series A Fine Romance. She later starred in the 1991 sitcom Good & Evil, playing the good-natured sister opposite Teri Garr as her evil executive sibling. The series was cancelled by after six episodes.