Marcia Rodd

In 1964, she starred as Dorothy Gale in a televised production of The Wizard of Oz. She made her film debut in Alan Arkin's 1971 film Little Murders, and received acclaim for her role as Portland Angel in Jonathan Demme's Handle with Care (1977). In 1969, she originated the role of Bobbi in Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers.

• Born — 8 July 1938 • Birthplace — Lyons, Kansas, U.S. • Died — 27 December 2025 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Known for — * Little Murders • Shelter • Handle with Care • Last of the Red Hot Lovers • Years Active — 1962–2023 • Occupation — Actress, singer, director

Rodd was born in Lyons, Kansas, on July 8, 1938. She was the daughter of Charles and Rosetta (née Thran) Rodd. Her father was an oil company executive. She has a brother, Stephen Rodd, a lawyer, and a sister, Barbara. For most of her youth, Rodd and her family lived in Tulsa. They moved to Wichita in time for her to attend East High School for her senior year. She also worked part-time at a store. She studied drama at Northwestern University, under the tutelage of Alvina Krause. She married Dale Hagen and followed him to New Haven, Connecticut where he enrolled in Yale Law School and she performed in Yale Repertory Theatre. The couple then moved to New York City.

Rodd spent the 1960s and 1970s appearing on and off Broadway. She made her Broadway debut in late 1964 as a replacement in the musical Oh, What a Lovely War, assuming the roles played by Linda Loftis. In 1966, she appeared as a replacement in the off-Broadway musical The Mad Show, and replaced Marian Mercer as Olivia in Your Own Thing, a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, one week after it opened off-Broadway in January 1968. She appeared in Norman Krasna's short-lived Broadway comedy Love in E Flat in 1967. From December 1969 to March 1971, Rodd performed in Neil Simon's The Last of the Red Hot Lovers on Broadway opposite Linda Lavin, Doris Roberts, and James Coco. Her portrayal of Maud in the Broadway musical Shelter garnered her a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical in 1973. She lost to Glynis Johns for A Little Night Music. In 1971, she appeared in the film T.R. Baskin with Candice Bergen, and the black comedy Little Murders opposite Elliott Gould. Her other film credits included Handle with Care (1977) and Last Embrace (1979). During the 1970s, she appeared in several made-for-television productions, and continued making appearances on television shows through the next three decades. One of these appearances was in the episode of All in the Family that served as the pilot for the series Maude in the role of Maude's daughter Carol Traynor, who was eventually played by Adrienne Barbeau in the series. She had also played another character on a previous All in the Family episode, "Mike's Mysterious Son", earlier that same season. Other guest appearances on television included M*A*S*H, Match Game '76, Murder, She Wrote, The New Dick Van Dyke Show and a recurring role as Stanley Riverside's wife on Trapper John, M.D. In 1978, she starred as the ingenue Cynthia Carter in the short-lived stage musical Barbary Coast. Rodd portrayed Elaine Dowling in the TV series 13 Queens Boulevard in 1979. She returned to Broadway in the mid-1980s, as a replacement for the role of Clara in Herb Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport. In 1989 and 1994, she starred in two separate national tours of Fiddler on the Roof, as Golde opposite both Theodore Bikel and Topol as Tevye, respectively. She also appeared in a 2003 episode of the television series Without a Trace, the 2012 short film Parallax, and the long-running soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Rodd died on December 27, 2025, at the age of 87.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1971 — The — Linda — "Linda, Linda, Linda" • 1972 — Young Dr. Kildare — Dr. Nicole Keefe — "Chemistry of Anger" • 1972 — Medical Center — Connie — "The Torn Man" • 1972 — All in the Family — Marilyn Sanders / Carol Traynor — "Mike's Mysterious Son", "Maude" • 1975 — Medical Center — Phyllis — "The Captives" • 1975 — Barnaby Jones — Nurse Marion Hollister — "Fatal Witness" • 1976 — The — Stephanie — Regular role • 1976 — Good Heavens — Joanne — "Coffee, Tea, or Gloria" • 1976 — How to Break Up a Happy Divorce — Eve — TV film • 1977 — Phyllis — Joanne Valenti — "Dan's Ex" • 1977 — All's Fair — Vanessa Farr — "The Dick and Vanessa Show" • 1977 — Maude — Leslie Perkins — "Walter's Temptation" • 1978 — M*A*S*H — Nurse Lorraine Anderson — "Temporary Duty" • 1979 — 13 Queens Boulevard — Elaine Dowling — Main role • 1979 — ABC Afterschool Special — Barbara McKain — "A Movie Star's Daughter" • 1979 — Quincy, M.E. — Eleanor Janssen — "Sweet Land of Liberty" • 1979 — Lou Grant — Nancy Rhoden — "Samaritan" • 1980 — Archie Bunker's Place — Allison Flanders — "Home Again" • 1980 — Insight — Pat McGinn / Kay Durban — "Unfinished Business", "God in the Dock" • 1980–86 — Trapper John, M.D. — E.J. Riverside — Recurring role • 1981 — Flamingo Road — Alice Kovacs — Recurring role • 1981 — Maggie — Miss Turley — "The School Conference" • 1981 — Bret Maverick — Capt. Estelle Slater — "The Yellow Rose" • 1982 — Laverne & Shirley — Hillary — "The Playboy Show" • 1982 — Lou Grant — Vivian Hamlin — "Cameras" • 1983 — American Playhouse — Mary Goodwin — "Keeping On" • 1984 — Night Court — Nora Bowers Sedgwick — "Hi Honey, I'm Home" • 1984 — The — Claudia Zimmer — 13 episodes • 1984 — Gimme a Break! — Off. Dwyer — "Carl's Delicate Moment" • 1985 — Highway to Heaven — Ann Haynes — "The Right Thing" • 1985 — Too Close for Comfort — Margaret Sinclair — "Off and Running" • 1985 — Between the Darkness and the Dawn — Lilly — TV film • 1987 — Buck James — Sara Taylor — "A Question of Loyalty" • 1986 — Murder, She Wrote — Betty Fiddler — "Keep the Home Fires Burning" • 1987–89 — 21 Jump Street — Margaret Hanson — "After School Special", "Christmas in Saigon", "Loc'd Out: Part 2" • 1988 — Murder, She Wrote — Madeline DeHaven — "Harbinger of Death" • 1990 — Hunter — Miss Doyle — "Oh, the Shark Bites!" • 1994 — Renegade — Judge Joan Stephens — "Once Burned, Twice Chey" • 1995 — Home Improvement — Barbara Burton — "Doctor in the House" • 1996 — Sisters — Jane Wilcott Sumner — "Housecleaning" • 2000 — Family Law — Susan Lumberg — "Telling Lies" • 2001–02 — Family Law — Judge Paula Scott — "Recovery", "Celano v. Foster" • 2003 — Without a Trace — Sandra Pappish — "Moving On" • 2012 — Treelore Theatre — Granny Gilly — "Memory Lane Diner" • 2013–14 — Broken at Love — Grandma Lulu — "Post-Match Analysis", "Sudden Death" • 2014 — Hellman v. McCarthy — Mary McCarthy — TV film • 2017 — The Young and the Restless — Myrna Bloodworth — 2 episodes • 2020 — Grey's Anatomy — Gertie Schmitt — Episode: "The Last Supper" • 2023 — Hunters — Helga Hansöm — "The Home"