Paula Kelly

Paula Kelly

Paula Kelly

Performer
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Paula Kelly

Performer

October 21, 1943

Jacksonville, Florida

February 9, 2020

Paula Kelly was an American actress, singer, and dancer.

With a career that began in theater, Kelly made her Broadway debut in the 1964 musical Something More!

She danced onto the screen and into living rooms in The Carol Burnett Show and went on to appear in Sanford and Son, The Streets of San Francisco, Night Court, Hill Street Blues, Mission: Impossible, The Golden Girls, The Women of Brewster Place, and the daytime series Santa Barbara.

Kelly was nominated for two Primetime Emmy awards: first in 1984 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Night Court, and again in 1989 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special for The Women of Brewster Place.

Kelly died on February 8, 2020, in Whittier, California.  She was 77.

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