Paddi Edwards

{{Infobox person | name = Paddi Edwards | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Patricia Mary Ursula Edwards | birth_date = (1931-03-08)March 8, 1931 | birth_place = Bristol, England, UK | death_date = October 18, 1999(1999-10-18) (aged 68) | death_place = Encino, California, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1956–1999 }

Patricia Mary Ursula Edwards (March 8, 1931 – October 18, 1999), known as Paddi Edwards, was an English-born American actress. She worked steadily in film and television.

Family

Raised in Wotton-under-Edge, the elder of two daughters of James and Rosemary (née Hughes) Edwards. She and her parents moved to the United States, where her younger sister, Loraine, was born. The family settled in Waban, Massachusetts. She became a naturalized United States citizen on December 15, 1952.

Career

She found a niche market in television movies and, towards the end of her life, doing voiceover work in projects for Disney, such as the roles of Flotsam & Jetsam in The Little Mermaid franchise, as the Future Fate Atropos in Hercules and as Vera in Pepper Ann.

Although a successful actress, she is often remembered for her guest starring role as Anya, a shapeshifting mother-figure, on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Dauphin", as well as providing the voice of the deity Gozer in Ghostbusters. She appeared on Night Court as Henrietta "Hank" Shannon, the mother of Bull Shannon (played by Richard Moll).

Her American television guest appearances also included Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Murder, She Wrote, 227, Life Goes On, Married... with Children, and Murphy Brown, among numerous others.

Death

Edwards died of respiratory failure on October 18, 1999, aged 68, at her home in Encino, California.

Partial filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1960	Inn for Trouble	Deirdre
1978	Corvette Summer	Loop Gaffer
1982	Halloween III: Season of the Witch	Secretary
1983	To Be or Not to Be	Pub Waitress
1986	Blue City	Kate
	Stewardess School	Older Woman
1987	Surrender	Judge
1989	The Little Mermaid	Flotsam & Jetsam	Voice
1997	The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue	Lab Computer
	Hercules	Atropos
1998	The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars	Satellite 1
2000	An Extremely Goofy Movie	Receptionist at Office (Posthumous role)

External links

• Paddi Edwards at Find a Grave

• Paddi Edwards at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)

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