Peg Phillips

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Peg Phillips
Peg Phillips and Barry Corbin.
Born	Margaret Linton September 20, 1918 (1918-09-20) Everett, Washington
Died	November 7, 2002 (aged 84) (pulmonary disease) Seattle, Washington
Other name(s)	Margaret Peg Phillips Margaret Phillips
Spouse(s)	Daniel Greene (? -?, 1st) Chester Phillips (1950s -?, 2nd)

Peg Phillips (September 20, 1918 - November 7, 2002), born Margaret Linton in Everett, Washington, was an American actress who started acting professionally in her late 60s after retiring from a career as an accountant.

Phillips had wanted to be an actress since age 4 and had done dinner theater as a hobby throughout the years. Her first role was in a film in 1985, but after that she did not appear again until 1990.

In 1990, she started her best known role playing Ruth-Anne Miller on Northern Exposure. The character had been intended to be intermittent, but she became a regular character in time. After Northern Exposure, she did several guest roles, especially on 7th Heaven. She played the dude ranch-owning grandmother (Natty) of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in How the West Was Fun. Her last role was a guest spot on ER in 2000. She also served as artistic director in a theater in Woodinville, Washington, until her death.

Her life outside of acting included surviving polio, peritonitis, and a ruptured aorta.

She was the wife of a Navy man stationed in the Territory of Hawaii during Pearl Harbor. She had been divorced twice and had four children in total.

Like her Northern Exposure character, she was a smoker from an early age (13). She died from pulmonary disease (some sources erroneously indicated lung cancer) in Seattle, aged 84.