Lily Munster got on well. De Carlo approached the role with Donna Reed as her primary inspiration. Lily Munster Lily Munster is a fictional character in the CBS sitcom, "The Munsters", originally played by Yvonne De Carlo. The matriarch of the Munster household, Lily is a vampire. The role was later played by Lee Meriwether in "The Munsters Today" and by Portia de Rossi in the unsold 2012 pilot "Mockingbird Lane". Lily was first introduced in the 2nd pilot episode and is the only family member to not appear in the original pilot episode. In the original pilot Herman was married to
Ann Magnuson "Clear and Present Danger", and a sexy victim of David Bowie's vampire in "The Hunger". Her TV guest appearances include an episode each of the Lifetime cable-network fiction-suspense anthology "The Hidden Room"; the cult-hit, surrealistic comedy-drama "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" and "Salute Your Shorts" on the children's cable television network Nickelodeon; the sitcoms "The John Larroquette Show", "The Drew Carey Show", "Caroline in the City", and "Frasier"; and the police procedural drama "". In the 1996 telefilm The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas, Magnuson played Lily Munster from the original 1960s TV series "The Munsters". She appeared in the