Alice Hirson
Alice Hirson ( born March 10, 1929 in New York City, New York ) is an American actress.
Life
Alice Hirson began her acting career in the serial The Edge of Night in the role of Stephanie Martin, which she played from 1969 to 1970. Until the mid- 1970s, she appeared in other soaps. In 1988, she finally got a supporting role in Dallas. She played her best known role from 1994 to 1998 in the sitcom Ellen in which she mimed the mother of actress Ellen DeGeneres.
Private Hirson was married twice. From the first marriage to Roger O. Hirson she has two sons: David, who writes plays, and Christopher Hirson, a jazz musician. Her second husband Stephen Elliott, whom she married on 1 January 1980, died after 25 years of marriage on May 21, 2005.