AS SEEN ON TV: MRS. MADRIGAL

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!