Ann Morrison (born April 9, 1956) is an American actress, best known for her Broadway debut as Mary Flynn in the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical, Merrily We Roll Along directed by Harold Prince for which she won the 1982 Theatre World Award. Off-Broadway she played Lizzie in the highly acclaimed Polly Pen/Peggy Harmon musical Goblin Market which garnered her a 1986 Drama Desk Award Nomination as Best Actress in a Musical and a Best Plays Theatrical Yearbook Citation as Best Actress in a Musical.
She tested but didn't get the part of "Mrs. Olsen" in the Folgers coffee commercials from the 1970s.
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She used her mothers maiden name of "Morrison" as her stage name. She felt no one in the entertainment industry would take her seriously as an actress with the name "Parrott".
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She married the piano player who was hired to play during her Sunday radio show poetry readings. Her husband also wrote songs with Tex Ritter.