Irene Tedrow (August 3, 1907 – March 10, 1995)[1] was an American character actress in stage, film, television and radio.

[4] Tedrow was a founding member of San Diego's Old Globe Theater and was cast as an ingénue in the beginning of her career.

Later, she also performed in Dundee and the Culhane, Diff'rent Strokes, The Rockford Files, Facts of Life, Three's Company and two episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Congresswoman Margaret Geddes.

[10] A 1937 radio listing shows her as one of the actresses in George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah when it was broadcast on NBC Blue.

Tedrow's performance in Eleanor and Franklin garnered her one of the first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Comedy or Drama Special (Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Comedy or Drama Special - 1976 per the Emmy Awards website).

[9] Tedrow was married to William Kent, who originally had come to the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.