Jean Stapleton was born Jeanne Murray in Manhattan, New York City, to Marie A. (Stapleton), an opera singer, and Joseph Edward Murray, a billboard advertising salesman. Her paternal grandparents were Irish. She was a cousin of actress Betty Jane Watson. Other relatives in show business were her uncle, Joseph E. Deming, a vaudevillian; and her brother Jack Stapleton, a stage actor. She graduated from Wadleigh High School, NYC, in 1939, and attended Hunter College. She worked as a secretary before becoming an actress. Stapleton made her stage debut at the Greenwood Playhouse, Peaks Island, Maine, in the summer of 1941, and her New York stage debut in "The Corn Is Green" (1948). She appeared on Broadway in the musicals "Damn Yankees" (1955) and "Bells Are Ringing" (1956), and later repeated her roles in the movie versions (Damn Yankees (1958) and Bells Are Ringing (1960)). Her other Broadway roles included the original companies of "Rhinoceros" (1961) and "Funny Girl" (1964). Stapleton also played Abby Brewster in the 1986-87 revival of "Arsenic and Old Lace". Jean Stapleton(1923년생, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 마이클, 죽은 자의 어리석음, Aunt Mary가 있으며, 그 외에도 조니 카슨의 투나잇 쇼, Saturday Night Live, The Love Boat, The Mike Douglas Show, 골든 글로브상, 토니상, 내 사랑 레이몬드, Great Performances, Murphy Brown, Robert Montgomery Presents, Touched by an Angel, The Merv Griffin Show 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2016년 라스트 래프에 출연했다. 2009년 The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air에 출연했다. 2009년 Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family"에 출연했다.