Dottie, a flaky domestic worker and an amateur actress, who ran out on him, is Stella.

Helen Bechdel was an amateur actress, and plays in which she acted are also used to illuminate aspects of her marriage.

Curiously, he doesn't tell us that his mother was an amateur actress.

His mother, Moya, was also an amateur actress.

She was also a talented amateur actress with a flair for comedy.

She was also herself an amateur actress.

His mother, an amateur actress, had trod the boards in a local troupe.

Coates' mother was a nurse and amateur actress while her father is a doctor.

Her mother was a noted amateur actress, descended from the Kemble family of actors.

His mother was an accomplished amateur actress who was born in England.