Frances Goffman Bay is a Canadian-born United States-based character actress known for playing a variety of quirky elderly women on film and television.

Personal life

Bay was born in Mannville, Alberta and raised in Dauphin, Manitoba. Her younger brother was the noted sociologist Erving Goffman. Before World War II she acted professionally in Winnipeg and spent the war hosting the Canadian Broadcasting Company's radio show, "Everybody's Program", aimed at service members overseas.