Marlene Ronetta Warfield (June 19, 1941 – April 6, 2025) was an American actress who worked in theatre, film, and television.
Background
Warfield was born in Queens, New York, on June 19, 1941, and brought up in Brooklyn.
She attended the High School of Performing Arts and began acting on stage as a teenager, in 1957. and played Victoria Butterfield on the television sitcom Maude (1977–1978). Warfield starred in the play Janie Jones at the New Theatre, London (opened July 15, 1968).
She won the Clarence Derwent Award in 1969 for Outstanding Broadway Debut Performance and a Theatre World Award for the role of Clara in The Great White Hope, which she reprised in the 1970 film version.
Personal life and death
In 1967, Warfield married William Horsey (died 1993); they had a son.