Alice Hirson, Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom mom, passes away at 95

Alice Hirson, a veteran actor whose TV credits include more than a half dozen daytime and primetime soaps, has passed away.

Hirson notably appeared in sitcoms Ellen, starring Ellen DeGeneres, and Full House.

Her son David said that Hirson passed away on Feb. 14 of natural causes.

She was 95 years old.

Hirson began her acting career way back in the 1950s with appearances on a few anthology series, according to Yahoo. She then joined ABC's daytime serial The Edge of Night as the "vengeful and sometimes murderous" Stephanie Martin.

According to Yahoo:

She went on to play Marcia Davis in both NBC’s Another World and its offshoot Somerset, and in the early 1970s played Joe Riley’s big sister, Eileen, on ABC’s One Life to Live.

From there, Hirson’s TV credits included episodes of Maude, The Waltons, Barnaby Jones and Taxi. In 1982, she had a short arc on ABC’s General Hospital, which she followed up with episodes of Quincy M.E., Hotel and (the original) Matlock.

On CBS’ Dallas, Hirson had a run as Mavis Anderson, friend and confidante of Miss Ellie Ewing. That was followed by a series regular role on the NBC sitcom Home Fires, and in 1994 she made her debut as Ellen DeGeneres’ TV mom, Lois Morgan, in the aforementioned Ellen.

Hirson was active until relatively recently, with one of her final acting appearances coming on a 2019 episode of Will & Grace.