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Nickname:	Liz
Known for:	Steel Magnolias, The Whole Wide World, Scarecrow
Birth name:	Elizabeth Ann Wedgeworth
Birthday:	21 January 1935, Abilene, Texas, USA

Attended The University of Texas at Austin (graduated 1957). Attended high school in Dallas with Jayne Mansfield. Wedgeworth (Lana Shields) had the shortest run on Three's Company in the 1979-1980 season. Childhood friends with actress Jayne Mansfield. Won Broadway's 1978 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Chapter Two." Won a Drama Desk Award for her role in "A Lie of the Mind" (1986). Over fifteen years after their divorce she appeared with ex-husband Rip Torn in the film _Birch Interval (1977)_ . By this time he was married to actress Geraldine Page. Wife of director/acting teacher Ernie Martin, and the mother of lovely daughters, Danae and Diánna. Wedgeworth joined the seasoned cast of Three's Company in 1979 as bosomy neighbor/divorcée Lana Shields who had strict and assertive designs on 'John Ritter's Jack Tripper character. It was a tawdry, one-note character that really didn't fit in with the harmless leering and silly, physical slapstick of the show. She was promptly written out of the series in mid-season with no explanation given in the story for Lana's disappearance. Later Wedgeworth revealed that she wasn't "fired" but asked to be let go. After shooting a couple of episodes of the show, Wedgeworth said, some of the cast members were complaining about the size of her part and the character dwindled down to practically "nothing". Wedgeworth asked the producers to write the part of Lana back to the way it was intended or release her.

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