Lois Kelso Hunt | |
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 Undated photo of Hunt | |
| Born | Lois Marie Kelso July 16, 1926 |
| Died | May 20, 2018 (aged 91) Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. |
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Leon Hunt
(m. 1954; div. 1985) |
| Children | 4 |
Lois Marie Kelso Hunt (July 16, 1926 – May 20, 2018)[1] was an American actress, theater director, and arts advocate.[2] A native of Oak Park, Illinois, she studied at the University of Michigan and Columbia University before pursuing a career as an English and drama teacher. Hunt relocated to Alexandria, Virginia in 1965, where she acted in local theater productions, and served as a director and producer of a touring production of Malcolm Boyd's They Aren't Real to Me (1966–1968).
Hunt made her feature film debut portraying a domineering house mother in The House on Sorority Row (1982), which went on to become a cult film. She later appeared onscreen as a guest star on the series Homicide: Life on the Street in 1995, and later in a minor part in the comedy film Head of State (2003). Hunt spent much of her later life dedicated to various humanitarian and philanthropic causes in Alexandria. She died at Inova Alexandria Hospital of pneumonia in 2018, aged 91.
- ^ Lentz, Harris M. III (2019). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-476-67033-1.
- ^ "Lois Kelso Hunt". Alexandria Gazette. Alexandria, Virginia. June 29, 2018. Archived from the original on January 27, 2020.