Peggy Cosgrave

Big Mama

Peggy began her career in A Long Day’s Journey Into Night with Helen Hayes in 1971 and was nominated in 1985 for the first Helen Hayes Award for her portrayal of Chick in Crimes of the Heart. She has been a professional Actor for 42 years having appeared in Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. Peggy also worked in regional theatre, summer stock, star packages as well as daytime soap operas, commercials, voice-overs and film. For seven years she was the voice of ABC’s Soap Talk.  Peggy just completed the world primer of Our Lady of South Division Street at the Penguin Rep and at SevenAngelsTheatre as Clara. Peggy appeared at GEVA Theatre as Mrs. Somes in Our Town and at the Pioneer Theatre as Penny in You Can’t Take It With You.

Other credits include Hattie in The Women of Locherbie, May in Eastern Standard, Mae in the U.S. premiere of That Was Then, Dorothy in Inspecting Carol at the George Street Playhouse, Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest. She last appeared in Europe in Frankfurt, Germany and Basel, Switzerland as Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Before coming to Vienna, Peggy performed at the Manhattan Theatre Club in a reading of The Chalk Garden with Angela Lansbury.