Mary Gross

Mary Gross (born March 25, 1953) is an American voice actress, comedian, and actress known for her four-year stint on Saturday Night Live from 1981 to 1985 and her recurring role as Sabrina's favorite teacher, Mrs. Quick in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch from 1997 to 2000. Her credits also include minor roles on Animaniacs, Boston Legal, That's So Raven, and Six Feet Under.

Early life
A Chicago native, Gross is the youngest of three children born to William Oscar Gross, a tool designer, and Virginia Ruth (née Cahill), a telephone operator (the eldest being actor Michael Gross). She attended Chicago's Madonna High School—an all-girls Catholic school, since demolished —and Loyola University. While in high school, Gross made her performing debut—singing, in character, as France's Louis XIV, to the tune of Bernstein and Sondheim's "I Feel Pretty"—alongside fellow Madonna alumnus Marilu Henner.

Early career
She is an alumna of the Second City comedy troupe. Before becoming part of the group she was a secretary with the American Dental Association.

Saturday Night Live (1981–1985)
Gross joined SNL in 1981, during the show's 7th season following the show's disastrous sixth season, when the show was nearly canceled. She became co-anchor of SNL's Weekend Update segment (renamed SNL Newsbreak) during her first season. She and the rest of the cast left in 1985 following executive producer Dick Ebersol's departure from the show.

Recurring characters

 * Alfalfa, from SNL's recurring parody of The Little Rascals and skits regarding the murder of Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat character.
 * Siobhan Cahill, an Irish woman who reports on Irish events on Saturday Night News (Weekend Update's name when Brad Hall was cast as anchor). Coincidentally, Saturday Night Live would have Siobhan Fallon and Beth Cahill as cast members in the 1990s.
 * Chi Chi, a Hispanic woman who hosts two fake public-access television cable TV shows (The Ghostbusters Show and Let's Watch TV) with her best friend, Consuela (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
 * Celeste, a repressed woman married to an equally repressed man (played by Tim Kazurinsky)

Celebrity impersonations

 * Ann Landers
 * Brooke Shields
 * Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth)
 * Nancy Reagan
 * Paul Reubens (as Pee-wee Herman)
 * Eleanor Roosevelt
 * Geraldine Ferraro
 * Harriet Nelson
 * Irlene Mandrell
 * Marilyn Monroe
 * Mary Tyler Moore
 * Jeane Dixon
 * Mary Hart
 * Lena Horne
 * Margaret Thatcher
 * Simone de Beauvoir
 * Suzanne Somers
 * Leslie Uggams

Personal life
Gross has never married, but as of June 1982, Chicago-based photographer Jay King was referred to as "her longtime boyfriend" in a profile/interview of Gross penned by Chicago Sun-Times writer Michael Davis. Duration aside, their relationship was also reported that year by the Chicago Tribune's Jon Anderson and several years later by researcher-author Mary Unterbrinker.