Editing Marcia Wallace (section)

==Career==
On the day she graduated from college at Parsons, Wallace moved from [[Iowa]] to [[New York City|New York]] with $148 in her pocket.<ref name="Parsons"/><ref name=bio/> To make ends meet, she typed scripts, performed in [[summer stock]] local theatre, did commercials, and worked as a substitute [[English language|English]] teacher in [[The Bronx]] in the late 1960s.<ref name="Parsons"/> After performing for a year in a  [[New York City]] / [[Greenwich Village]] nightclub, Wallace and four fellow entertainer friends formed an [[Improvisational theatre|improvisational group]] called The Fourth Wall. In 1968, Wallace appeared for a year [[off-Broadway]] with the group. Afterwards, she made several other appearances in improvisational shows,<ref>{{iobdb name|9331|Marcia Wallace}}</ref> and, after losing {{convert|100|lb}} from her previous weight of 230,<ref name=bio/> appeared in a nude<ref name=bio/> production of ''[[Dark of the Moon (play)|Dark of the Moon]]'' at the [[avant-garde]] [[Mercer Arts Center]] in Greenwich Village (now known as The Kitchen - a performing arts institution relocated to the West Village area of [[Manhattan]]).<ref>{{iobdb title|3202|Dark of the Moon}}</ref>

[[File:Bob Newhart Show Carols Wedding 1975.JPG|thumb|Marcia Wallace at age 33 with [[Bob Newhart]] (right) and [[Will Mackenzie]] in a fourth-season episode of ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'', "Carol's Wedding", in 1975]]
Wallace was a semiregular on ''[[The Merv Griffin Show]]''  long-running syndicated daytime talk / variety show, appearing over 75 times. When the show moved its production from New York to [[Los Angeles]], Wallace moved with it at [[Merv Griffin|Griffin]]'s request.<ref name="Parsons"/> One of these appearances in March 1972 led to a phone call from TV producer [[Grant Tinker]]  (husband of comedic actress and fellow producer [[Mary Tyler Moore]]), who offered her a supporting role on their new ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'' on the recommendation of [[CBS-TV]]  founder and longtime chairman [[William S. Paley|William S. ("Bill") Paley]].<ref name="Parsons"/> The role of "Carol Kester" (later "Carol Kester Bondurant"), the sarcastic and eccentric office receptionist to "Dr. Robert Hartley",  [[Bob Newhart]]'s central character, was written specifically for her.<ref name="Parsons"/><ref name="chictrib"/> Newhart and Wallace later reprised their roles from ''The Bob Newhart Show'' to guest roles on  "Anything but Cured", an episode of ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' (starring [[Candice Bergen]]).

When ''The Bob Newhart Show'' ended its six-season run in 1978, Wallace began three decades of television appearances on various [[game show]]s, including ''[[Match Game]]''; ''[[Hollywood Squares]]''; ''[[Password Plus and Super Password]]''; ''[[Celebrity Whew!]]''; ''[[Crosswits]]''; ''[[Hot Potato (game show)|Hot Potato]]''; ''[[Body Language (game show)|Body Language]]''; ''[[The $25,000 Pyramid]]''; ''[[Double Talk]]''; ''[[Win, Lose or Draw]]''; ''[[Tattletales]]''; ''[[To Tell the Truth]]''; and ''Acting Crazy''. She was also on special celebrity episodes of the [[Ray Combs]] version of ''[[Family Feud]]'' and the [[Jim Perry (television personality)|Jim Perry]] version of ''[[Card Sharks]]''. In April 2008, she appeared on the interactive show ''[[GSN Live]]'' on the [[cable TV]] channel [[Game Show Network]] (GSN).

Other brief television roles include: as Darrin's secretary in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh", a ''[[Bewitched]]'' episode in 1971; two appearances on ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' (once as Marcia's teacher in "Getting Davy Jones" and once as the woman who sells Jan a mod wig in "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?"); as school principal Mrs. Lyman in two episodes of ''[[ALF (TV series)|ALF]]''; and as Mrs. Carruthers in a few episodes of ''[[Full House]]''. Wallace also had guest appearances on programs  ''[[Charles in Charge]]''; ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''; ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]''; ''[[Columbo]]''; and ''[[A Different World]]''.<ref name=bio/> On one of the last episodes of ''[[Taxi (TV series)|Taxi]]'', she portrayed herself, chosen as the ideal date of Rev. Jim Ignatowski. Later, Wallace played the maid on the satirical series ''[[That's My Bush!]]'', and, in 2009, appeared on the daytime soap opera ''[[The Young and the Restless]]'', playing [[The Young and the Restless characters (2000s)#Roger and Annie Wilkes|Annie Wilkes]], an inefficient assistant kidnapper.

After ''[[The Simpsons]]'' animated series started in 1989, Wallace joined the voice acting cast as the voice of [[Edna Krabappel]], whom she played until her death in 2013. In 1992, she received a [[Primetime Emmy Award]] for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance|Outstanding Voice-Over Performance]] for the episode "[[Bart the Lover]]" on The Simpsons.

On film, Wallace appeared in such features as ''[[My Mom's a Werewolf]]'', ''[[Teen Witch]]'', and ''[[Ghoulies (film series)#Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College|Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College]]''.<ref name=bio/> In the 2008 film ''[[Tru Loved]]'', she played a [[high school]] drama teacher who sponsors a [[gay–straight alliance]].

Wallace's work onstage included ''An Almost Perfect Person'' in Los Angeles which she also produced; a tour of the female version of [[Neil Simon]]'s ''[[The Odd Couple (play)|The Odd Couple]]''; ''[[Same Time, Next Year (play)|Same Time, Next Year]]''; ''[[Twigs (play)|Twigs]]''; ''It Had to Be You''; ''Supporting Cast''; ''[[Prisoner of Second Avenue]]''; and ''[[Plaza Suite]]''. Wallace made her musical stage debut in the August 1983 [[California Musical Theatre]]'s [[California Musical Theatre#Music Circus|Sacramento Music Circus]] production of ''[[Gypsy: A Musical Fable]]'' in [[Sacramento]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19830810&id=LgsiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EXMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1822%2C1759093| title=Actors enjoy their stay, on and off stage| date=August 10, 1983|newspaper=[[The Day (New London)|The Day]]| access-date=October 28, 2013| first=Carol| last=Brown| location=New London, Conn| page=18}}</ref> She returned the following season in the musical ''[[Promises, Promises (musical)|Promises, Promises]]''. Other stage productions included ''[[Born Yesterday (play)|Born Yesterday]]''; ''[[You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown]]''; ''[[Steel Magnolias (play)|Steel Magnolias]]''; and ''[[Last of the Red Hot Lovers]]'', in which she played all three female roles at various times.<ref name=bio/> She performed in ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]'' production in [[Los Angeles]], [[New York City|New York]], [[Chicago]] and [[San Diego]].<ref name=bio>[http://www.marciawallace.com/bio.php Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031014212/http://www.marciawallace.com/bio.php |date=October 31, 2015 }} from [http://www.marciawallace.com MarciaWallace.com] </ref> In 2013, shortly before her death, she voiced the character of the librarian in ''[[Monsters University]]'', and in 2014 (posthumously) she portrayed herself in the movie ''Muffin Top: A Love Story''.