- Born
- Birth nameRuta Mary Kilmonis
- Height5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
- Ruta Lee was born on May 30, 1935 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She is an actress, known for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Funny Face (1957). She was previously married to Webster Bernard Lowe Jr..
- SpouseWebster Bernard Lowe Jr.(February 13, 1976 - July 1, 2020) (his death)
- Lee is chairman of The Thalians, an organization for the treatment of mental health at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Debbie Reynolds was the president. Both have been actively involved in building this celebrity-run organization for over 30 years.
- She and her husband were married 44 years until his death.
- She loves it when fans remember her Twilight Zone episode, A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain (1963).
- She and her husband own several houses scattered across the United States. In her acting travels, she stays at these different houses for varied periods of time. About her house-hopping travels she jokes, "I sleep around.".
- Inducted into the Lithuanian American Hall of Fame in 2013.
- [on making Doomsday Machine (1976)] It really could have been a sweet little picture, you know, but it was done on twenty-nine cents. But we really had a ball making it, and this was the early seventies when we all had huge hair, I mean when I think of that movie now and wonder... I could have floated off into space with that hairdo.
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