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Marion Rogers "Mimi' Weddell (February 15, 1915 – September 24, 2009) was an American actress. She is best known for portraying Stanford's grandmother on Sex and the City and for being featured in a documentary film, Hats Off, about her life and her collection of some 150 hats. She was born as Marion Rogers in Williston, North Dakota on February 15, 1915, and grew up in Massachusetts. Following the divorce that ended her first marriage, she moved to New York City. There she was hired by The New York Times, working as an assistant to the paper's fashion editor. Her second marriage was to... MORE

Marion Rogers "Mimi' Weddell (February 15, 1915 – September 24, 2009) was an American actress. She is best known for portraying Stanford's grandmother on Sex and the City and for being featured in a documentary film, Hats Off, about her life and her collection of some 150 hats. She was born as Marion Rogers in Williston, North Dakota on February 15, 1915, and grew up in Massachusetts. Following the divorce that ended her first marriage, she moved to New York City. There she was hired by The New York Times, working as an assistant to the paper's fashion editor. Her second marriage was to Richard Weddell in 1946, who had been working at the time as an executive with the classical recordings division of RCA Victor and later became an art dealer. According to the film Hats Off, Weddell only began her acting career in earnest once she was 65, following the death of her husband in 1981, which had left her with a stack of unpaid bills. She first appeared in the 1980 low-budget horror film Dracula's Last Rites in the role of Mrs. Bradley and followed that in the subsequent year as Miss Mumsley in 1981's Student Bodies, a parody of the horror genre. In 1985, she appeared in Woody Allen's LESS