Margaret Ann Whitton (November 30, 1949 – December 4, 2016) was an American stage, film, and television actress.

The family eventually relocated to Haddonfield, New Jersey, and then to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where Whitton started acting at Northeast High School.

[5] Whitton worked as a television actress, with appearances in the soap operas One Life to Live and The Doctors.

[7] Whitton returned to the stage, appearing on Broadway in And the Apple Doesn't Fall... (1995), as Mac in Jeffrey Hatcher's The Three Viewings (1995),[8] and in the original musical Marlene (1999).

[9] At the time of her death, Whitton served as president of Tashtego Films, an independent-film production company, co-founded with producer Steven Tabakin.