Marcia Ann Burrs, a veteran character actor whose many TV appearances included stints as Mrs. Claus in two Hallmark Christmas TV-movies and, in a memorable episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, the long-ago high school girlfriend of Danny DeVito’s Frank Reynolds, died Sunday, March 22, in Matthews, North Carolina. She was 85.
Her death was announced by her family. Although a cause was not specified, the announcement notes that she died peacefully surrounded by family.
Although she made appearances in such feature films as Rob Reiner’s Rumor Has It… (2005) and Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring (2013), Burrs most prolifically and steadily worked as a character performer on dozens of TV shows, from 1988’s The Slap Maxwell Story through such recent fare as Young Sheldon, Angie Tribeca and Grace and Frankie (all 2017).
For fans of holiday movies, Burrs will be remembered as the wife of
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