Eileen Brennan Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

It's a wonderful thing about getting in front of an audience, you forget about everything. You just do what you have to do.

Trivia

Eileen is a graduate of Georgetown University.

Eileen literally and physcially broke her leg playing Miss Hannigan in a stage production of Annie, falling off the stage and into the orchestra pit.

Eileen was a favorite of director Robert Moore and writer Neil Simon. She starred in two of their movies Murder by Death in 1976 and The Cheap Detective in 1978.

Shortly after surviving a near fatal automobile accident, her (1985) performance as Mrs. Peacock in Clue was released to theatres.

Eileen's son Patrick was a Christmas baby, born on Christmas Day!

Following in the footsteps of her mother, Eileen became an actress. Her mother was silent film actress Jean Manahan.

Eileen received an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, for Private Benjamin (1981).