Character actress who has found a niche on film and TV playing quirky country moms, including Reese Witherspoon's in Sweet Home Alabama (2002) in both serious and comical settings.
A Varsity cheerleader in high school, Place graduated from the University of Tulsa. She was initiated into the Gamma Tau (Tulsa) chapter in 1966, and is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
She worked with pop artist, John Stewart, on his 1979 album, "Bombs Away Dream Baby", featuring the hit song, "Gold". She sang background vocals on this LP.
She recorded two music albums: Tonite! At the Capri Lounge Loretta
Haggers (1976) and Aimin' to Please (1977).
Her ancestry includes English, Swedish, Polish, and more distant Scottish, Welsh, Dutch, and German. Her maternal grandfather was the son of immigrant parents (a Swedish father and a Polish mother, who both moved to Texas).
Daughter of Gwendolyn and Bradley E. Place, who was a university art professor.