Fay Holderness (née MacMurray; April 16, 1881 – May 13, 1963) was an American vaudeville performer and film actress.

The family left Wisconsin in the late 1880s, living in Ohio, Michigan, and later Illinois.

[4] Holderness performed in a vaudeville production in Olean, New York in 1920, a presentation of The Village Four.

The film featured Tom Mix, Philo McCullough, and Alan Hale, Sr. She appeared in many short comedies, including several with Laurel and Hardy, playing Mrs. Laurel in Their Purple Moment (1928), and Mrs. Hardy in Hog Wild (1930).

[1] Fay Holderness died in 1963 at the Pacific Convalarium in Santa Monica, California, age 82, from arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.