Elizabeth Lawrence

Biography

Elizabeth Lawrence (September 6, 1922 – June 11, 2000) was an American actress, best known for her long-running role as Myra Murdock Sloane in the soap opera All My Children from 1979–1991. She had roles in other soap operas: Guiding Light, As the World Turns, A World Apart, and The Road of Life. She is also known for her roles as Chloe Williams - blind mother of Julia Roberts' character Laura Burney - in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), Mrs. Blair in We're No Angels (with Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn and Demi Moore), Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible (1996), and the school nurse in Unbreakable (2000) - released the year of her death.

Known For

Unbreakable

as School Nurse

Sleeping with the Enemy

as Chloe Williams

Oz

as Beecher's Grandmother

Law & Order

as Miss Elsie Hatch

We're No Angels

as Mrs. Blair

The Crucible

as Rebecca Nurse

Third Watch

as Mary Stiverson

The Butcher's Wife

as Grammy D'arbo

Four Friends

as Mrs. Prozor

All My Children

as Myra Murdock Sloane