HATTIE WINSTON

'Hattie Mae Winston' (b. March 3 1945, Lexington, Mississippi) is an American television, film and Broadway actress best known for her role as Margaret on ''Becker''. She was featured in television series such as ''Nurse'' and
''Homefront''.
Raised in Greenville, Mississippi, she began her career onstage. Winston starred in the Broadway hit ''The Tap Dance Kid''; she also appeared on Broadway in ''Two Gentlemen of Verona'', ''I Love My Wife'', and ''The Me Nobody Knows''. She was a member of the Negro Ensemble Company.
Winston rose to prominence during the mid-1970s as a member of the cast of the children's PBS series ''The Electric Company'', which was produced by the Children's Television Workshop. Her most notable character on that series was Valerie the Librarian, who was best friends with Easy Reader (portrayed by Morgan Freeman). She also played many villainess roles versus Spider-Man on the'' Spidey Super Stories'' sketches, such as the Fox, the Thumper, the Queen Bee, and the Queen of Diamonds. Winston was with the show from 1973 to 1977.
She has guest-starred on ''Scrubs'' and ''Smart Guy''. In 1997, Winston portrayed Simone in the Quentin Tarantino film ''Jackie Brown''.