Mary Tanner Bailey
Mary Tanner (born 21 May 1963) is an actress whose career includes over 100 professional roles in film, television and theatre. After high profile roles for CBS and PBS in the 1980s, she returned to her native Nashville in the early '90s and began writing and producing local productions. She eventually went into puppeteering and puppet building with Wishing Chair Productions and, later, Brianimations, with Brian Hull. Tanner continues to act, and in 2019, she was seen in Dolly Parton’s Smokey Mountain Christmas Carol at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston, MA and God, Help Us!, co-starring Ed Asner, at the Franklin Theater in Franklin, TN.
Acting
TV
Murder, She Wrote
as Monica McCumber
1984
Movie
An Uncommon Grace
as Rose Fisher
2017
Movie
The Work and the Glory II: American Zion
as Elsa Johnson
2005
Movie
Willy/Milly
as Stephanie
1986
Movie
Existo
as Lahlo
1999
Movie
Return to Green Acres
as Daisy Ziffel
1990
TV
CBS Schoolbreak Special
as Debbie Welker
1984
Movie
Private Sessions
as Millie Braden
1985
Movie
Izzy & Moe
as Lilly
1985
Movie
A Billion for Boris
as Annabel Andrews
1984
Movie
Getting Up and Going Home
as Barbara Montgomery
1992
Movie
Little Miss Perfect
as Debbie Welker
1987