ANNA MADRIGAL
AS SEEN IN:
'Tales Of The City'
CREATED BY:
Armistead Maupin
PORTRAYED BY:
Olympia Dukakis
TV STATUS:
Recastaway, on a technicality
(For 44 years, she lived life as Andrew Ramsey, before going to Denmark and
getting a sex change. "Anna Madrigal" is an anagram for "A Man And A
Girl". I don't think we ever saw Andy in a flashback, but he has to exist out there in the Past of Toobworld. Which makes me wonder - who would play him?)
TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time
Mrs. Madrigal was the pot-growing landlady of 28 Barbary Lane.
From Everything2.com:
Character from Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" series. Anna,
formerly Andy Ramsey, owns the house at 28 Barbary Lane. She's a
marijuana-growing, perspicacious, witty and elegant 'old lady who used to be a
man', ie, a transsexual. (Her name is an anagram of 'a girl and a man'). She
calls her tenants her 'children', and mothers them, especially Mona Ramsey, her
natural daughter. She meets Edgar Halcyon, Mary Ann Singleton's boss and DeDe
Halcyon Day's father, on a bench, and they have an affair, which ends when Edgar
dies. She doesn't get up to much after that until the last book - when she goes
on holiday with Mona to Lesbos and has a nice affair with a Greek - but is kind
of ever-present, and a constant link between the other characters.
(Written by "girlotron")
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Mrs.
Madrigal:
Welcome to 28 Barbary Lane.
Mary Ann Singleton:
Thank you.
Mrs. Madrigal:
Yes, you should.
Mary Ann Singleton:
Do you have
any objection to pets?
Mrs. Madrigal:
Dear, I have no objection to
anything.
BCnU!
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