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Loretta Swit

American actress (born 1937)

Loretta Jane Swit (born Loretta Jane Szwed; November 4, 1937) is an American stage and television actress known for her character roles. Swit is best known for her portrayal of Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on M*A*S*H, for which she won two Emmy Awards.

Early life

Loretta Swit was born on November 4, 1937,[1] in Passaic, New Jersey, to Lester and Nellie Szwed (née Kassack), who were both of Polish descent. Her father was a salesman and upholsterer. Swit's brother, Robert, was six years and one day her senior.[2] As a child, Swit was a member of a Girl Scout troop sponsored by the Holy Rosary R.C. Church of Passaic, known as the Holy Rosary Scouts.[3]

She graduated from Pope Pius XII High School in Passaic in 1955, where she had been a cheerleader, had taken part in theatrical productions, and was co-captain of the women's basketball team.[4][5] She graduated from Katharine Gibbs School in Montclair, New Jersey, in June 1957, then was employed at a variet

Loretta Swit

ACTOR

1937 - Today

Loretta Swit

Loretta Jane Swit (born Loretta Jane Szwed; November 4, 1937) is an American stage and television actress known for her character roles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Loretta Swit has received more than 6,383,862 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Loretta Swit is the 4,102nd most popular actor (down from 3,223rd in 2019), the 6,073rd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,020th in 2019) and the 1,843rd most popular American Actor.

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  • 55.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

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  • 1.67

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  • 4.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Loretta Swit ranks 4,102 out of 13,578. Before her are Judge Reinhold, Allen Garfield, Mickey Kuhn, Zhao Wei, Pruitt Taylor Vince, and Tang Wei. After her are Lee Aaker, Sig Ruman, Dorothy Gish, Hu Die, Zooey Deschanel, and Steven Williams.

Equally versatile at comedy and drama, Loretta Swit was born on November 4, 1937, in Passaic, New Jersey. Her parents, Polish immigrants, were not in favor of her making a stab at a show business career. Performing on stage from age 7, however, nothing and nobody could deter her.

A natural singer who trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before finding work in repertory companies, her features were deemed a bit too plain and hard for ingénue roles so she attempted musicals and light comedy, imbuing her characters with a snappy, comic edge. Beginning with the 1967 national touring company of "Any Wednesday", starring Gardner McKay, she forged ahead as a scene-stealing "Pigeon sister" opposite Don Rickles and Ernest Borgnine in an L.A. run of "The Odd Couple" and, from there, earned more laughs as the hopelessly awkward "Agnes Gooch" in the Las Vegas version of "Mame" starring Susan Hayward and (later) Celeste Holm.

Arriving in Hollywood in 1970, Loretta merited some attention by lightening up a number of dramas with h

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