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Charlotte Rae Lubotsky (April 22, 1926 – August 5, 2018) was an American character actress and singer whose career spanned sixty-six years. Rae was known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and its spin-off, The Facts of Life (in which she had the starring role from 1979 to 1986).
Charlotte Rae. Actress: The Facts of Life. Charlotte Rae was born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky in 1926, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the middle daughter of three sisters, between Beverly and Mimi.
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Aug 6, 2018 · Charlotte Rae, the quavery-voiced redhead who started out on Broadway but was best known as a warmhearted, wisecracking housemother in two hit 1980s sitcoms, died on Sunday at her home in Los...
Aug 6, 2018 · The actress, who also starred on Diff'rent Strokes, revealed she had bone cancer in 2017. She was known for her wit, warmth and wisdom as the house mother of a girls' boarding school.
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Aug 6, 2018 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charlotte Rae, who played a wise and patient housemother to a brood of teenage girls on the long-running sitcom “The Facts of Life” during a career that encompassed many other TV roles as well as stage and film appearances, has died. She was 92.
Charlotte Rae was a comedienne and actress who starred in Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life. She was born in 1926 in Wisconsin, had a long career in stage and TV, and died in 2018 from bone cancer.
Aug 21, 2018 · The actress who played the beloved TV housemaid Mrs. Garrett died Sunday. Charlotte Rae was 92. Ms. Rae died at her Los Angeles home with family members present just 18 months after being diagnosed with bone cancer the second cancer diagnosis she’d had.
