Background
Guilbert was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Doctor Gerald Guilbert, a physician, and his wife, Cornelia.
Guilbert was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Doctor Gerald Guilbert, a physician, and his wife, Cornelia.
She attended Solomon Juneau High School, and after moving to San Francisco, she studied theater arts at Stanford University.
She began her career as a featured performer and singer in the Billy Barnes Revues of the 1950s and 1960s. After The Dick Van Dyke Show, she made guest appearances in many other television shows, including Adam-12 (the premiere episode), as well as The Andy Griffith Show, Love, American Style, That Girl, Dragnet, Picket Fences, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She appeared in such feature films as A Guide for the Married Manitoba, Viva Max!, Grumpier Old Men (as the mother of Sophia Loren"s character), and Please Give, for which she received the CFA for Best Supporting Actress.
In December 2004, she appeared in the reunion of The Nanny titled The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember with Fran Drescher, Lauren Lane, Rachel Chagall and other cast members of The Nanny.