Billie Burke facts

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Billie Burke was an American actress best known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz.

Birth name: Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke.

Billie was born on August 7, 1884.

Heigth: 5' 3" (1.60 m)

Zodiac sign: Leo.

Billie Burke was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live.

Her last screen appearance was in Sergeant Rutledge, a Western directed by John Ford in 1960.

Billie Burke died in Los Angeles of natural causes, aged 85, in 1970.