Alice Pearce 1964, Pearce was originally approached to play the part of Grandmama in the ABC television comedy series "The Addams Family". She turned down the part, which went to veteran actress Blossom Rock. In 1964, Pearce joined the cast of "Bewitched" as the nagging and nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz. Pearce's scenes were almost entirely reactions to the witchcraft she had witnessed at the house across the street. Her hysterical accusations against Samantha, played by Elizabeth Montgomery, and the disbelief of her husband Abner (George Tobias), provided a common thread through many of the series' early episodes. She played the role until
Samantha Spiro the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. Spiro won a 2004 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical, for the production of "A Little Night Music" at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois. In the 2011 British Comedy Awards she won the Best Female Comedy Breakthrough Artist award for her performance in Grandma's House. Samantha Spiro Samantha Spiro (born 20 June 1968) is an English actress. She is best known for portraying Barbara Windsor in the stage play "Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick" and the television film "Cor, Blimey!", DI Vivien Friend in "", and