Broadway Actress Margot Stevenson Dies at 98

Actress Margot Stevenson, whose Broadway career spanned several decades, died at her home in Manhattan on Sunday, January 2, according to The New York Times. She was 98.

Stevenson made her Broadway debut in the 1932 play Firebird, and originated the role of Alice Sycamore in Kaufman and Hart’s You Can’t Take It With You. Her numerous Broadway credits also include The Barretts of Wimpole Street, The Rugged Path, Truly Valiant, Stage Door, and Hostile Witness. She also appeared in regional theaters and London’s West End. Her final role was as blind seer Teiresias in a Fringe production of The Bacchae in the late 1990s.

Among her film and television credits is a performance as Lady Macduff in the 1954 “Hallmark Hall of Fame” production of Macbeth, and her radio roles included the character of Margot Lane (which was reportedly named after her) in the serial The Shadow.

She is survived by her daughter, actress Margot Avery.