Zara Cully

Biography

Zara Frances Cully was an American actress born on January 26, 1892, in Worcester, Massachusetts. She gained fame for her roles as Mama Maitresse in "Sugar Hill" and Mama Lavorn in "The Liberation of L.B. Jones." Later, she became a household name playing Olivia "Mother Jefferson" Jefferson in the CBS sitcoms All in the Family and The Jeffersons, from 1975 until her death in 1978.