Ebersole is a two-time Tony Award winner for her roles in 42nd Street and Grey Gardens , for which she also received the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. A Tony nominee for Dinner at Eight , Ebersole’s Broadway credits also include Steel Magnolias , The Best Man, Getting Away with Murder, Harrigan ‘n Hart, Camelot, Oklahoma!, On the Twentieth Century, I Love My Wife and Angel Street .

Her screen credits include “Saturday Night Live,” “Amadeus,” “Gypsy” and “Will and Grace.” This February, the celebrated actress is scheduled to star as Margo Channing in the City Center Encores! production of Applause .