- Born
- Birth nameGretchen Hoyt Corbett
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Gretchen Corbett was born on August 13, 1945 in Portland, Oregon, USA. She is an actress, known for The Rockford Files (1974), Pig (2021) and Otherworld (1985).
- Children
- ParentsHenry Ladd Corbett Jr.Katherine Minahan Coney
- Her acting mentor was the late James Garner.
- Left NBC's The Rockford Files (1974) after the 4th season (1977-1978).
- Studied drama in the late '60s at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech which later merged into Carnegie Mellon University.
- Made her acting debut playing "Desdemona" in "Othello" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. She worked in many regional theatres, including the Long Wharf Theatre, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, the Eugene O'Neill Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and the Repertory Theatre of New Orleans, and performed many roles on and off Broadway after moving to New York.
- Born in Camp Sherman, Oregon, a remote village of about 200 in the heart of Ponderosa pine country, the daughter of Henry Ladd Corbett Jr. and Katherine Minahan Coney.
- I'm perfectly willing never to get married, but I would like to have children. And that presents a problem, doesn't it.
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