Charlotte Rae, whose role as lovable house mother Mrs. Garrett on The Facts of Life charmed a TV generation, has died. She was 92 and passed Sunday at her Los Angeles home, according to representatives. Rae revealed last year that she had bone and pancreatic cancer, but a cause of death was not immediately revealed.
Born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rae got her start doing theater and radio. Rae later played housekeeper Edna Garrett on Diff’rent Strokes, and when her character proved popular, she proposed a spin-off that became The Facts of Life, a sitcom about a girls’ boarding school and their house mother.
