She returned to acting in 2001 after living in China when a casting director approached her on the bus who was looking for people with gray hair for a commercial.
She has two children and four grandchildren.
She graduated from New York University in 1949 in New York City with a theater major.
She lives with her husband, Zeke, and dog, Frisky, on the Upper West Side in New York City. (July 2009)