Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress (Soap), wife of Martin Short, died of natural causes she was , 58

Nancy Dolman  was a Canadian comic actress and singer died of  natural causes she was , 58. She was most notable for her recurring role as Annie Selig Tate on the ABC sitcom Soap. She also appeared in her husband Martin Short's 1985 cable television special Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas.



(September 26, 1951 — August 21, 2010)

Biography

The Toronto-born Dolman performed in the Canadian Rock Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar in the early 1970s, which travelled to Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and recorded an album with the group at MGM while they were in Los Angeles.^[1][2]
Dolman's brother, screenwriter/director Bob Dolman (who served as a part of SCTV's writing team alongside Short), married their close friend and colleague Andrea Martin, in 1980. Dolman and Martin had two sons, Jack (born 1981) and Joe (born 1983), before divorcing.^[2]
In 1980, she married fellow Canadian actor Martin Short, whom she had met during the run of the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell. Dolman was Gilda Radner's understudy. Short dated Radner first, then began dating Dolman in 1974. Dolman attended high school at York Mills Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and held a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario.^[2]
Dolman retired from show business in 1985 to be a homemaker and full-time mother to her children. A profile of the couple appeared in the February 1987 issue of Vogue. The family made their home in Pacific Palisades, California. Dolman and Short also kept a vacation home in Lake Muskoka, Ontario.^[3]

Children

Dolman had three children: Katherine Elizabeth (born 1983), Oliver Patrick (born 1986), a student at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, and Henry (born 1989), who also attends the University of Notre Dame.

Death

Dolman was suffering with cancer, according to a newspaper in 2007^[4] and died on August 21, 2010, in Pacific Palisades, California.^[5] The exact cause of death or type of cancer have not been made public.^[6] According to the Los Angeles County Coroner, she died of natural causes.^[4]

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