Barbara Harris

Barbara Harris (July 25, 1935 – August 21, 2018) was an American actress.

She began acting while still a teenager in Chicago, playing small parts in the Playwrights Theatre Club. She was also in "The Compass Players", the first ongoing improvisational theater troupe in America, directed by her then-husband Paul Sills (who founded the troupe based on principles created by his mother, Viola Spolin, the author of "Improvisation for the Theatre"). A more polished version of the Compass, called "The Second City", was an enormous hit in Chicago and was moved to Broadway, where she was nominated for a Tony.

For Disney, she played Mrs. Andrews in Freaky Friday, Vickie in The North Avenue Irregulars and Mary Blank in Grosse Point Blank.