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- Height1.66 m
- Valerie Mahaffey is an American character actress and producer. She began her career starring in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors (1979-81), for which in 1980 she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.In 1992, Mahaffey won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the CBS drama series Northern Exposure. She later won fame through her portrayal of extroverted and friendly but ultimately insane women on the television shows Wings, Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids and Big Sky. Mahaffey also appeared in a number of movies, including Senior Trip (1995), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), Jack and Jill (2011), Sully (2016), and most notably French Exit (2020), for which she received critical acclaim and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- SpouseJoseph Kell(? - present) (1 child)
- Born in Sumatra, Indonesia, to an American father and a Canadian mother, and moved to Austin, Texas, at the age of 16.
- Reedy, eccentric character actress who specializes in deceptively normal-appearing ladies. She has frequented a number of off-beat series and won an Emmy for her work in Northern Exposure (1990).
- Graduated from Austin High School in 1971; she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Texas.
- Went to Austin High School in Austin, TX, where she graduated in 1971.
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