Ellen Demming

Actress

Date of birth : 11/10/1922

Date of death : 02/07/2002

City of birth : Schenectady, New York, USA

What many people do not know about Ellen Demming, is that besides her work on the Guiding Light, she held membership in SAG and Actors Equity. In addition to playing Meta, she did Summer Stock, regional theatre, commercial work, and she starred off-Broadway in "Family Portrait", in 1959, at the Seven Arts Center. Brooks Atkinson, of the New York Times, said this of her performance as Mary, Mother of Jesus: "Her characterization has pride, modesty, and great delicacy of feeling."