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Jessica Walter (born January 31 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Queens, New York) is an American actress. Walter graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts. She got her start in the early 1960s on the soap opera Love of Life.

Her earliest notable film role was in the 1971 movie Play Misty for Me, in which she played a psychotic young woman stalking a disc jockey (played by Clint Eastwood). Walter's other film credits from that era include Lilith, Grand Prix, The Group, Bye Bye Braverman, and Number One.

Since then, Walter has done most of her work on television, though she did make an appearance in 1994's PCU. Walter lent her voice to Fran Sinclair on the ABC comedy Dinosaurs, and appeared on Just Shoot Me! as Eve Gallo, the mother of Maya and the ex-wife of magazine publisher Jack Gallo (George Segal).

From 2003 to 2006, she appeared in a regular role as the scheming socialite matriarch Lucille Bluth on FOX's critically acclaimed, but now cancelled, comedy series, Arrested Development.

She is married to actor, and occasional co-star, Ron Leibman.

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