Mary Tanner Bailey

Biography

Mary Tanner (born 21 May 1963) is an actress whose career includes over 100 professional roles in film, television and theatre. After high profile roles for CBS and PBS in the 1980s, she returned to her native Nashville in the early '90s and began writing and producing local productions. She eventually went into puppeteering and puppet building with Wishing Chair Productions and, later, Brianimations, with Brian Hull. Tanner continues to act, and in 2019, she was seen in Dolly Parton’s Smokey Mountain Christmas Carol at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston, MA and God, Help Us!, co-starring Ed Asner, at the Franklin Theater in Franklin, TN.

Known For

Murder, She Wrote

as Monica McCumber

An Uncommon Grace

as Rose Fisher

The Work and the Glory II: American Zion

as Elsa Johnson

Willy/Milly

as Stephanie

CBS Schoolbreak Special

as Debbie Welker

Return to Green Acres

as Daisy Ziffel

Private Sessions

as Millie Braden

A Billion for Boris

as Annabel Andrews

Getting Up and Going Home

as Barbara Montgomery