Trivia

She adopted her three children with her husband William Moloney.

In 2007, Ebersole won her 2nd Tony Award for her dual role of "Little" Edie Beale and Edith Bouvier Beale in the musical "Grey Gardens".

Won Broadway's 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for a revival of "42nd Street." In 2003, she was Tony-nominated as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of the George S. Kaufman - Edna Ferber comedy "Dinner at Eight."

Her children are Elijah (b. 1993), Mae Mae (b. 1996) and Aron (b. 1997).

Played Ado Annie in a major Broadway production of "Oklahoma!" at the Palace Theater in 1979.

Won the 2007 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Musical for "Grey Gardens".

Alumna of New Trier Township High School West, Northfield, Illinois.

Aunt of actress Janel Moloney.

Studied at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Spring, 2006: Starred off-Broadway in the demanding dual role of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter "Little Edie" in the new musical Grey Gardens (based on the notorious Maysles Brothers documentary) for which she won the Obie, Drama Desk and Drama League Awards and overwhelming critical acclaim. The show will open on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in October, 2006. (July 2006)

As of 2016, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Tootsie (1982), Amadeus (1984) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Of those, Amadeus (1984) is a winner in the category.

Honorary Doctorate from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. Address given at college's Homecoming convocation. (October 2002)

She lives with her family in Maplewood, New Jersey. (October 2006)

She was nominated for a 2016 Joseph Jefferson (Equity) Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for "War Paint" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Starring as Elvira in Noel Coward's play "Blithe Spirit" on Broadway (2009)

Starring in Steel Magnolias on Broadway (M'Lynn - the Sally Field role in the movie) (March 2005)

She has Swiss-German, German, English, Irish, and distant Dutch, ancestry.

Went to MacMurray College (in Jacksonville, Illinois), class of '75.

Alumna of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1975.

Born on exactly the same date as William Petersen (of "To Live and Die in L.A." fame).

She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Tootsie (1982) and Amadeus (1984).