Cathryn Lee Damon was an American actress, best known for her roles on television sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
Education
Born in Seattle, Damon was raised in Tacoma and graduated from Stadium High School, moved to New York City at age 16 to pursue ballet and ultimately appeared in several Broadway productions, including Shinbone Alley, Foxy, Flora, The Red Menace, The Boys from Syracuse, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Sweet Bird of Youth, and The Cherry Orchard.
Career
During the 1967-1968 season, she was the Mame and Vera understudy for the Angela Lansbury-led tour of Mame. Damon became familiar to television viewers as middle-class Mary Campbell on the primetime spoof of daytime soaps aptly entitled Soap from 1977 until 1981, followed by her role of Cassie Parker on Webster from 1984-1986. Other television credits included guest roles on Matlock, Mike Hammer and Murder, She Wrote.
In 1986, Damon was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, but continued acting in small roles up until shortly before her death a year later at age 56, on May 4, 1987.
Her final role, as Elizabeth McGovern"s mother in the movie She"s Having a Baby with Kevin Bacon, was released posthumously. She is interred in Acacia Memorial Park near Seattle.