Margaret May Phillips (née Linton; September 20, 1918 – November 7, 2002) was an American actress best known for playing storekeeper Ruth-Anne Miller on the television series Northern Exposure.
She was the wife of Daniel Greene, a Navy man stationed in the Territory of Hawaii when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred.
[2] She was married to Chester Phillips in the 1950s, during which time she suffered a near-fatal bout of "polio and a serious abdominal infection".
[1] She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1993.
She played the dude ranch-owning godmother of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's characters in How the West Was Fun.