Ruth Buzzi

Ruth Buzzi
Ruth Buzzi in May 2008
Born	Ruth Ann Buzzi (1936-07-24) July 24, 1936 (age 80) Westerly, Rhode Island, U.S.
Residence	Stephenville, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, comedian, singer, voice artist
Years active	1962–present
Spouse(s)	Kent Perkins (m. 1978)

Ruth Ann Buzzi (born July 24, 1936) is an American actress, comedian and singer. She has appeared onstage, as well as in films and television. She is best-known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968-73, for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received five Emmy nominations.

Buzzi was born at Westerly Hospital, Westerly, Rhode Island, the daughter of Rena Pauline and Angelo Peter Buzzi, a nationally recognized stone sculptor. She was raised in Wequetequock, Connecticut, in a rock house overlooking the ocean at Wequetequock Cove, where her father owned Buzzi Memorials, a business still operated by her older brother, Harold.

Her father was born in Arzo, Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, a few miles from the Italian border. He carved the marble eagles at Penn Station in New York designed by artist Adolph A. Weinman (who also designed the Walking Liberty half dollar and Mercury dime for the U.S. Mint), the granite Leif Erikson memorial in Providence, Rhode Island, the animals seen in relief on the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and made thousands of tombstones. He was asked to work on the carving of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore but declined, out of a fear of heights. Her mother was born in the United States to immigrants from northern Italy.