Biography
Born and raised in South Carolina, character actress Celia Weston has played many a tough Southern gal despite her theater training in both London and New York. Working both on and off Broadway in the '70s, she moved over to television as the snappy Mel's Diner waitress Jolene Hunnicut on the CBS sitcom
Alice. After that, she appeared in Southern-tinged feature films like
Honky Tonk Freeway and
Stars and Bars. Also adept at playing matronly types, she played the mother of Beastie Boy
Adam Horowitz in
Lost Angels, the mother of one of the victims in
Dead Man Walking, and the supposed mother of
Ben Stiller in
Flirting With Disaster. Back on the stage in 1997, she earned a Tony nomination for her role as Southern Jew Reba Freitag in Alfred Uhry's Last Night at Ballyhoo and returned to Broadway in 2000 as Mom in the revival of
Sam Shepard's True West. She made a comeback to films as well with supporting roles in
Ride With the Devil, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and
Snow Falling on Cedars. In 2001, she played a Southern belle mental patient in
K-PAX followed by the gossip-hound Mona in
Far From Heaven, the Fowler's family friend in
In the Bedroom, and the guardian of teenaged Bruce Banner in
The Hulk. In 2003 she was back to the small screen as a cast member on the Showtime original series
Out of Order. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide