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Acting

Nanette Fabray

Career: Active from 1927 to 1989, with a break from 1940 to 1952, busiest in 1970 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles: 9
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: The Band Wagon
84/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Screen Actors Guild Awards · SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award
1986 · Won
Source: Wikidata
Primetime Emmy Awards · Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
1957 · Won · 9th Primetime Emmy Awards
Caesar's Hour
Source: Wikidata
Primetime Emmy Awards · Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
1956 · Won · 8th Primetime Emmy Awards
Caesar's Hour
Source: Wikidata

Characters

1

The characters Nanette Fabray played, best-known titles first.

Nanette Fabray as Kate Romano

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 26 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Nanette Fabray Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Violence
1.3, average 4.1
Tension
3.3, average 5.9
Adrenaline
2.2, average 4.8
Scare
0.4, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Family-Friendly 4
Character-Driven 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

41

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

3 titles · average score 69

That's Entertainment! III

87

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Teresa's Tattoo

48

as Martha Mae

The Golden Palace

72

TV show · as Fern

1980s

6 titles · average score 66

Coach

56

TV show · as Christine's Mom / Mildred Armstrong

Personal Exemptions

as Millie McFall

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Emmaline Bristow

Hotel

65

TV show · as Harriet Gold

Amy

69

as Malvina

Aloha Paradise

TV show

1970s

13 titles · average score 63

All Star Secrets

TV show

The Man in the Santa Claus Suit

57

as Dora Dayton

Harper Valley P.T.A.

60

as Alice Finely

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Maggie O'Brien / Shirley Simpson

That's Entertainment, Part II

70

as (archive footage)

One Day at a Time

66

TV show · as Katherine Romano

Happy Anniversary and Goodbye

53

as Fay

The Couple Takes a Wife

as Marion Randolph

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

62

as Sadie

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

85

TV show · as Dottie Richards

But I Don't Want to Get Married!

as Mrs. Vale

George M!

as Nellie Cohan

1960s

8 titles · average score 56

Love, American Style

43

TV show · as Cindy / Phyllis

The Happy Ending

62

as Agnes

Alice Through the Looking Glass

60

as The White Queen

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

38

TV show · as Desiree

Fame Is the Name of the Game

69

as Pat

Burke's Law

68

TV show · as Rowena Coolidge / Amanda Tribble

Westinghouse Playhouse

TV show · as Nan McGovern

The Subterraneans

53

as Society Woman (uncredited)

1950s

7 titles · average score 75

Laramie

72

TV show

Startime

67

TV show · as Sally / Self

A Man's Game

as Josephine Evans

The Family Nobody Wanted

as Helen Doss

The Band Wagon

84

as Lily Marton

Omnibus

75

TV show · as Raina Petkoff

Your Show of Shows

79

TV show

1930s

3 titles · average score 69

The Monroe Doctrine

as Rosita De La Torre

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

73

as Mistress Margaret Radcliffe

A Child is Born

66

as Gladys Norton

1920s

1 title

Animal Catchers

as Girl wearing overalls