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Nancy Dolman Born Nancy Jane Dolman
September 26, 1951
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDied August 21, 2010 (aged 58)
Pacific Palisades, California, U.S.Nationality Canadian Education York Mills Collegiate Institute Alma mater University of Western Ontario Occupation comic actress Years active 1970-1985 Television Soap Spouse Martin Short (1980-2010) (her death) Children Katherine Elizabeth (b. 1983)
Oliver Patrick (b. 1986)
Henry (b. 1989)Nancy Jane Dolman (September 26, 1951 – August 21, 2010) was a Canadian comic actress and singer. She was most notable for her recurring role as Annie Selig Tate on the ABC sitcom Soap. She appeared in her husband Martin Short's 1985 cable television special Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas.
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Biography
The Toronto-born Dolman performed in the Canadian Rock Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar in the early 1970s, which travelled to Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and recorded an album with the group at MGM while they were in Los Angeles.[1][2]
Dolman's brother, screenwriter/director Bob Dolman (who served as a part of SCTV's writing team alongside Short), married their close friend and colleague Andrea Martin, in 1980. Bob Dolman and Martin had two sons, Jack (born 1981) and Joe (born 1983), before divorcing.[2]
In 1980, she married fellow Canadian actor Martin Short, whom she had met during the run of the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell. Dolman was Gilda Radner's understudy. Dolman attended high school at York Mills Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and held a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario.[2]
Dolman retired from show business in 1985 to be a homemaker and full-time mother to her children. A profile of the couple appeared in the February 1987 issue of Vogue. The family made their home in Pacific Palisades, California. Dolman and Short also kept a vacation home in Lake Muskoka, Ontario.[3]
Children
Dolman had three children: Katherine Elizabeth (born 1983), a graduate of New York University, Oliver Patrick (born 1986), a student at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, and Henry (born 1989), who also attends the University of Notre Dame.
Death
Dolman was suffering with cancer, according to a newspaper in 2007[4] and died on August 21, 2010, in Pacific Palisades, California.[5] The exact cause of death or type of cancer have not been made public.[6] According to the Los Angeles County Coroner, she died of natural causes.[4]
References
- ^ "Toronto's Legendary Production of Godspell – Nancy Dolman Short". godspell.ca. December 6, 2010. http://godspell.ca/nancy. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
- ^ a b c IMDb profile
- ^ Lee, Denny (September 16, 2005). "Muskoka: The Malibu of the North". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/realestate/16muskoka.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=3fd55bc83dc4844e&ex=1156132800. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
- ^ a b Ken Lee (August 24, 2010). "Coroner: Martin Short's Wife Died of Natural Causes". people.com. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20415285,00.html.
- ^ Stephen M. Silverman (August 24, 2010). "Martin Short's Wife, Nancy Dolman, Dies". people.com. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20415154,00.html.
- ^ Duke, Alan (August 24, 2010). "Martin Short's wife has died". CNN. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/08/23/martin.short.wife/index.html?section=cnn_latest. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
External links
- Nancy Dolman at the Internet Movie Database
- Nancy Dolman at Godspell.ca
- "Katherine Short Chosen to Be Queen Shenandoah LXXVI" The Winchester Star, February 15, 2003
Categories:- 1951 births
- 2010 deaths
- Canadian comedians
- Canadian expatriate actors in the United States
- Canadian female singers
- Canadian musical theatre actors
- Canadian stage actors
- Canadian television actors
- People from Toronto
- University of Western Ontario alumni
- Women comedians
- Actors from Ontario
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