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American actress (1926–2015)

Betsy Palmer (born Patricia Betsy Hrunek; November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015) was an American actress known for her many film and Broadway roles, television guest-starring appearances, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing the antagonist and mother of Jason Voorhees, Pamela Voorhees, in the first Friday the 13th film (1980).

Early life

Palmer was born Patricia Betsy Hrunek on November 1, 1926,^[2] in East Chicago, Indiana, the daughter^[3][4] of Marie (née Love), an adoptee, who launched the East Chicago Business College before she married,^{[5][6][7][1][8]} and Vincent Rudolph Hrunek (1894-1969),^[9][10] an industrial chemist who immigrated from Czechoslovakia, and became a stay-at-home father.^[11][12] She performed in school plays all through childhood, graduated from East C