- Raised in Manhattan, New York City, and made her theatrical debut in 1936.
- In the eighties, she appeared in the Michael Douglas box office smash thriller "Fatal Attraction" (1987) and the Tom Berenger romance "Someone to Watch Over Me" (1987).
- In 1940, modeling agency founder Harry Conover cited Mundy as one of the 10 top models ("those who lure the highest salaries"). A newspaper article two years later reported that Mundy was "said to be Manhattan's highest paid model.".
- On television she played, among other roles, an antiques fancier on an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
- In 1982 she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series at the 9th Daytime Emmy Awards for her role on The Doctors.
- Meg Mundy was an English-born American actress and model.
- She was born in London, and in 1921, at the age of six, emigrated to the United States with her family.
- She played wealthy matriarch Mona Aldrich Croft on The Doctors from 1972 to 1973 and 1975-82, leaving 3 months before the show ended.
- Her film credits included roles in Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), Oliver's Story (1978), The Bell Jar (1979), and as the mother of Mary Tyler Moore's character in Ordinary People (1980), which won the Academy Award as Best Picture Of The Year.
- In 1948 Mundy starred in The Respectful Prostitute, but Dorothy Parker professed ignorance: "Meg Mundy? What's that, a Welsh holiday?" (Film star Ann Dvorak succeeded Mundy in that role.).
- Mundy also played Mary McLeod, the lead female role, in the Broadway production of Detective Story.
- Mundy debuted as a concert singer at Carnegie Hall in 1942.
- Her father became orchestra manager of the Metropolitan Opera. After retiring as a performer, Hine coached opera singers and musical performers. Meg's younger brother was Columbia University history professor John Hine Mundy.
- Her mother, Australian opera singer Clytie Hine, studied at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide, South Australia. Her father was English cellist John Mundy.
- In 1948 Mundy won the Theatre World Award for her performance in The Respectful Prostitute at the Cort Theatre.
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