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Other names  Conchatta Ferrell
Role  Actress
Books  Stranger Inside
Name  Conchata Ferrell
Children  Samantha Anderson
Years active  1974–present
Spouse  Arnie Anderson
Occupation  Actress
Height  1.60 m

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Full Name  Conchata Galen Ferrell
Born  March 28, 1943 (age 80) (1943-03-28) Charleston, West Virginia, U.S.
Known for  Two and a Half Men (2003–15)
Movies and TV shows  Two and a Half Men, Edward Scissorhands, Frankenweenie, Mr Deeds, Erin Brockovich
Similar People  Angus T Jones, Holland Taylor, Jon Cryer, Marin Hinkle, Charlie Sheen

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Conchata Galen Ferrell (born March 28, 1943) is an American character actress. Although she has been a regular castmember of five TV sitcom series, she is best known for her lengthy tenure playing Berta the housekeeper for all 12 seasons of the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. For her performances, she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations (in 2005 and 2007).

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Early life and education

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Ferrell was born in Loudendale, West Virginia, near Charleston, the daughter of Mescal Loraine (née George) and Luther Martin Ferrell. She was raised Christian in Circleville, Ohio.

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She attended West Virginia University for two years, dropped out, and after working several jobs, enrolled and graduated from Marshall University with a degree in history education. She made her first onstage performance at Marshall in 1969 in the second Barfenon Review, a skit comedy and musical production.

Career

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Ferrell began her career on the stage as a member of the Circle Repertory Company. She appeared in the original Broadway cast of Lanford Wilson's The Hot L Baltimore and won the Drama Desk, Obie and Theatre World Best Actress Awards for her performance in the off-Broadway play The Sea Horse.

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Acting on stage, television and film for decades, she may have originally been best known for her starring role as the frontier housekeeper the 1979 feature film Heartland directed by Richard Pearce, and as the tough-talking owner of Mystic Pizza, co-starring alongside Lili Taylor, Annabeth Gish, and Julia Roberts, who portrayed pizza waitresses. She also played a tough, comical nurse on the 1980s TV sitcom E/R.

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In 1992, she received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her recurring role as Susan Bloom on the sixth season of L.A. Law, but lost to Valerie Mahaffey for Northern Exposure. She had previously appeared in an episode of the show in 1988 as Lorna Landsberg.

Ferrell's supporting roles in films include performances in Deadly Hero, Network, Edward Scissorhands, Erin Brockovich, Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, Mr. Deeds and K-PAX as well as a small part in True Romance. Her other television credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hot L Baltimore, Teen Angel, Matlock, B. J. and the Bear, Good Times, Hearts Afire, Townies, Night Court, "The Love Boat" and Push, Nevada. She played Mrs. Werner in the episode of Quincy, M.E. titled "Into the Murdering Mind" (1982). She has also made memorable appearances portraying blunt, authoritative judges (The "Jagged Sledge" episode of Sledge Hammer! in 1987, and on "The One With Joey's Porsche" episode of Friends in 1999).

She accepted a role in the off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore for an April 27 through May 29, 2011, run with Minka Kelly, AnnaLynne McCord, Anne Meara, and B. Smith.

Ferrell is best known for portraying Berta the Housekeeper in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, appearing in a total of 212 episodes from 2003 to 2015. She had received two nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2005 and 2007, but lost to Doris Roberts for Everybody Loves Raymond and Jaime Pressly for My Name is Earl.

In 2012, she had her first film voice role as Bob's Mom in Frankenweenie which was directed by Tim Burton.

Personal life

She married Arnie Anderson, a sound man, in about 1986. She has a daughter, Samantha (born c. 1982) and two stepdaughters (born in c. 1976 and c. 1979).

References

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