From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHattie Mae Winston (born March 3, 1945) is an American television, film and Broadway actress best known for her role as Margaret on Becker and as a prominent cast member of the PBS childrens series The Electric Company.Winston was born in Lexington, Mississippi, and raised in Greenville, Mississippi.She began her career onstage. Winston starred in the Broadway hit The Tap Dance Kid; she also appeared on Broadway in Two Gentlemen of Verona, I Love My Wife, and The Me Nobody Knows. She was a member of the Negro Ensemble Company.Winston rose to prominence during the mid-1970s as a member of the cast of the PBS childrens series The Electric Company, produced by the Childrens Television Workshop. Her most notable character was Valerie the Librarian, who was best friends with Easy Reader (portrayed by Morgan Freeman). She also played many villainess roles versus Spider-Man on the Spidey Super Stories sketches, such as the Fox, the Thumper, the Queen Bee, and the Queen of Diamonds. Winston joined the series during the third season (1973–1974), replacing Lee Chamberlin. She remained with the series until its cancellation in 1977.Between 1981 and 1982 she starred in CBS TV series Nurse. In 1990 she starred in Home Video Sesame Street Visits The Hospital as Nurse Flowers. In 1991, Winston starred on the critically acclaimed television show Homefront (1991–1993). In 1998, Winston landed the role of Margaret on the CBS sitcom Becker (1998–2004).Winston voiced Lucy Carmichael for The Rugrats Movie. Since then she has gone on to voice the character again for the Nickelodeon TV series, All Grown Up!, which is a spin-off from the original Rugrats series.She has guest-starred on Scrubs and Smart Guy. In 1997, Winston portrayed Simone in the Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown. In 1998, Winston had a small role with Clint Eastwood in True Crime.She is married to the musical director of Dancing with the Stars, Tony nominee Harold Wheeler.

Movies unavailable from Hattie Winston

After All

Mother of Defendant

Movie 1999

Runaway

Aunt Anna Mae

Movie 1989

Deathdealer: A Documentary

Gladys

Movie 2003

UnBowed

Mother

Movie 1999

Good to Go

Movie 1986

Little Brother

Mrs. Webb

Movie 2020

Out to Lunch

Self / Various Characters

Movie 1974

Hollow Image

Ivy

Movie 1979

Nurse

Toni Gillette

Movie 1980

Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1992

Tv series unavailable from Hattie Winston

Malcolm & Eddie

Tv 1996

All Grown Up!

Lucy Carmichael (voice)

Tv 2003

Duckman

Tv 1994

Castle

Sally Niedermeyer

Tv 2009

Smart Guy

Tv 1997

Cold Case

Regina Reynolds (2009)

Tv 2003

Girlfriends

Tv 2000

Homefront

Tv 1991

Step by Step

Tv 1991

The Parent 'Hood

Tv 1995

The Electric Company

Tv 1971

Scrubs

Margaret Turk

Tv 2001

Cosby

Tv 1996

ER

Singing Woman

Tv 1994

It's Christopher Lowell

Tv 1999

Arsenio

Tv 1997

Spidey Super Stories

The Thumper

Tv 1974

Spidey Super Stories

Queen Bee

Tv 1974

Spidey Super Stories

Miss Muffett

Tv 1974

Spidey Super Stories

Valerie

Tv 1974

Reading Rainbow

Herself - Narrator (voice)

Tv 1983

The Proud Family

Gertie Dinkins (voice)

Tv 2001

The Dain Curse

Minnie Hershey

Tv 1978

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

Tv 1961