Biography
Elizabeth Hoffman was an American actress. She was born on 8 February 1926 in Corvallis, Oregon, and died on 21 August 2023 in Malibu, California.
She appeared in recurring roles on Little House on the Prairie (1980–1981) and Matlock (1989–1990). Hoffman portrayed Beatrice Reed Ventnor, the mother of the four sisters, in 127 episodes of the NBC series Sisters (1991–1996). She also played Eleanor Roosevelt in the miniseries The Winds of War (1983) and War and Remembrance (1988–1989).
Her film credits include Fear No Evil (1981), Nuts (1987), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), The River Wild (1994) and Dante's Peak (1997), in which she played Ruth. She appeared as Catherine Langford in Stargate SG-1 (1997–1998) and as Premier Bhavani in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989).
