Mary Gross was born March 25, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, to Virginia Ruth and William Oscar Gross. She is often associated with her
run on
Saturday Night Live (1975), from 1981-85, and other characters she plays on television and film including, Janis Zuckerman in
Feds (1988), Annie Herman in
Troop Beverly Hills (1989), Ms. Quick in seasons 2, 3, and 4, of
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), Patricia Patterson in season 3 of Disney's
That's So Raven (2003), and Leigh Swift in season 4 of
Boston Legal (2004).