Kay Medford
Movie Actress
Award-winning actress who appeared in the stage production of Carousel and played roles in films such as Funny Girl.
She waited tables in nightclubs before she got her big break in Hollywood.
She won a Tony Award for her Broadway role as the mother of Fanny Brice on Funny Girl; she reprised that role in 1968, which won her an Academy Award.
She was born Margaret Kathleen O'Regan, in New York, the daughter of first-generation Irish immigrants.
Barbra Streisand played her daughter in Broadway and film productions of Funny Girl.