Nedra Volz

About

Star of stage and screen who typically played elderly woman, such as the housekeeper Adelaide Brubaker on the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. She also played post office clerk Miz Emma Tisdale on The Dukes of Hazzard.

Before Fame

She began her entertainment career as Baby Nedra, on the vaudeville stage, and sang with a popular big band in the 1930s, but not until her post-retirement days did she take up acting.

Trivia

Among her most notable roles, she played Edith Bunker's favorite aunt, Iola, in All in the Family.

Family Life

She had three children with her husband Oren Volz.

Associated With

In her final film appearance, The Great White Hype, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Jeff Goldblum, she was credited, typically, as "old lady."