Betty Thomas
Betty Lucille Nienhauser
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Emerging from a Midwestern upbringing in St. Louis, Missouri, she earned a BFA at Ohio University before turning to art, teaching, and eventually the improvisational stage of Chicago’s Second City, where she broke ground as the first woman to helm a MainStage production. Her breakthrough acting moment arrived as Sergeant Lucy Bates on the acclaimed series Hill Street Blues, a role that garnered se…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
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