Celebrity Name : Beatrice Arthur

Celebrity Real Name : Bernice Frankel

Date of Birth : May 13, 1923
Birth Location : New York City
Biography :
Bernice Frankel (born May 13, 1923), known professionally as Beatrice Arthur, is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, singer, and comedian. She is known for her distinctive deep voice, acid wit and prominent stature, standing almost 5 ft 10 in (1.77 m).Arthur was born in New York City to parents Philip and Rebecca Frankel and was raised in Maryland. She became a medical technologist before World War II, when she volunteered for the U.S. Marine Corps, becoming one of its first female recruits.

Career :
Her notable television roles included the title role on the popular sitcom Maude in the 1970s, and a starring role on The Golden Girls in the 1980s and 1990s. In the former she played Maude Findlay, an outspoken “limousine liberal” and “New Deal fanatic”, living in the community of Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York, with her husband, Walter (Bill Macy).The show was a spinoff from All in the Family, on which Arthur had appeared in the same role, playing Edith Bunker (Jean Stapleton)’s cousin, a feminist Democrat, and antithesis to the prejudiced, conservative Republican Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor).[wikipedia]