Former RTA guest star Frances Bay will be receiving a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto. She won a Gemini for her role as Aunt Eliza Ward’s Cousin Winnifred in the episode “After the Ball Is Over”. However, she may be better-known as “The Marble Rye Lady” on Seinfeld; and is known as “the Hollywood Grandma”.

Last fall, members of her family and friends in her home province of Manitoba put out an online petition to convince Canada’s Walk of Fame to give her a star.

Also receiving a star are the comedy troupe Kids in the Hall; its members are Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCullough, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson, and Dave Foley (Lewis Allen in the second Anne miniseries).

The Walk of Fame ceremony will take place in Toronto this September. Past inductees with an RTA connection are Shirley Douglas (guest starred in “High Society”; inducted in 2004) and Gordon Pinsent (guest starred in “Someone To Believe In”; inducted in 2007).

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