jo marie payton played mike's mother on mike & molly.
jo marie payton played mike's mother on mike & molly.
who plays mike's mother on mike & molly?
jo marie payton
margaret 'peggy' biggs (rondi reed) is mike's mother. she is very controlling and traditional, as well as grumpy and cranky. peggy frequently expects mike to do her bidding at the drop of a hat, which made her initially cold toward molly becoming a part of mike's life. she has since warmed up some to molly, and began working as a lunch lady at molly's school in season 2. her tendency to lie when the truth isn't kind to her connected with that job when she told molly she had "retired"; she'd actually been fired for being impossible to work with. mike usually plays along with her revisionist history, but finally gets pushed too far in this case and tells peggy she got fired because she is bitter, toxic and unlikable by anyone. she is divorced, living alone with her dog "jim" (she even turned over mike's old room to jim) and often talks about her ex-husband, jack, leaving her and running away with a "whore". her longtime courtship of a sweet-natured and unsuccessful fellow catholic named dennis ended badly when she finally decided she was ready for them to have sex, only to realize he'd suffered a heart attack and died. a shocked peggy tried to blame it on a sour lemon cake molly had prepared for her birthday, only to have a no-longer-afraid molly jab peggy about her ham-fisted efforts to cover up her death-blocked seduction of dennis. despite her obvious disdain for jack, the two sleep together after mike and molly's wedding rehearsal, but peggy dumps him immediately after. she has a gift for writing that molly surprisingly discovered during her own successful effort to start a career as an author, and peggy's sordid past romantic exploits become the basis for molly's second novel. peggy reveals that she has always felt guilty for leaving her abusive home at an early age, while her mother was stuck with a drunken batterer for a husband. she also has a sister who still lives in their hometown with whom she has feuded since their teenage years, but they eventually reconciled in season 5. as the series ends, peggy remained both manipulative and decent-hearted, from playing on tension between molly and mike when she suffers a heart attack that mike felt molly caused (peggy confirmed she didn't) and nearly getting her ass kicked by joyce when she tries to guilt mike into moving back home, but being reassured by mike that while he won't move back home then or ever he still will make sure she's part of her grandchild's life.
list of mike & molly characters
a 2 1/2 hour (approximately 4 hours with commercials) tv miniseries produced by stewart mackinnon and mark sennet, directed by mick garris and with teleplay by screenwriter matt venne aired on a&e in december 2011. irish actor pierce brosnan plays mike noonan, with broadway actress anika noni rose taking the role of sara tidwell. filming took place in and around halifax, nova scotia, canada in august and september 2011. the miniseries changes sara's son kito to a daughter named kisha for unknown reasons, and there is no reference to the genealogy seen in the book, as mike is well aware that his grandfather lived in dark score lake, but was not aware of the fact that his grandfather had been one of the men who raped sara. the ending of the miniseries was also changed. jo confronts sara while mike works to destroy sara and her daughter's bodies with lye and succeeds. rogette then appears at mike's home and tries to kill him after forcing kyra into the bathtub. mike kills her in self-defense with no aid from mattie's ghost and the miniseries closes with mike and kyra going canoeing.
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