Maree Cheatham is an American actress, who is known for her performances on the daytime soap operas Days of Our Lives (1965–1968, 1970–1971, 1973, 1994, 1996, 2010, 2024, 2025), Search for Tomorrow and General Hospital, as well as for her role as Nona on the Nickelodeon comedy series Sam & Cat (2013–2014). She has also worked in many feature films, including Soul Man (1986), A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Hanging Up (2000), Labor Pains (2009) and Letters to God (2010).

Life and career Cheatham graduated from Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas in 1958. She was an original cast member of the daytime serial Days of Our Lives, in which she played the role of Marie Horton, who was the show's very first heroine. Horton has several traumatic relationships before going into a convent to become a nun.

After leaving Days of Our Lives in 1973, she moved to New York, where in 1974 she originated the role of the sarcastic and vampy Stephanie Wilkins on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. She was replaced on that soap opera in early 1984 by actress and writer Louise Shaffer. In 1987, she became a regular cast member of General Hospital as Lucy Coe's wacky and fun-loving Aunt Charlene Simpson. When Gloria Monty returned as a producer in 1991, Cheatham was one of many cast members let go, but in 1998 Cheatham returned to the role with a brief appearance on the General Hospital spin-off Port Charles.

During the last two seasons of Knots Landing, she played the role of the scheming Mary Robeson, a blackmailer who became the victim in a murder mystery.

Cheatham has returned to Days of Our Lives on several occasions to reprise the role of Marie Horton, as a doctor and no longer a nun. She returned twice in 1994 and 2010 for tributes to actors that died — MacDonald Carey and Frances Reid who played Marie's father and mother, respectively. Her character also attended one of Bo and Hope's remarriages. In 2024 she returned for the funeral of Doug Williams played by Bill Hayes who was once married to her sister Addie and after her death, he married her daughter Julie (Marie's niece).

Cheatham played the role of Mona on the soap opera Passions in 2002.

She has also made many guest appearances in TV series such as Gunsmoke, Cagney and Lacey, Quantum Leap, The Nanny, Dharma & Greg, Profiler, Judging Amy, Scrubs, The West Wing, Monk, Cold Case and Desperate Housewives. She has also appeared in movies such as Beetlejuice, Rumor Has It..., Mr. & Mrs. Smith, America's Sweethearts, and a notable cameo in The Wedding Singer, in which she innocently asked Billy Idol what the mile high club was.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes1974Indict and ConvictBarbara MathewsTV film1986Soul ManDorothy Watson1988BeetlejuiceSarah Dean1988Dangerous CurvesMrs. Brooks1998Mabel Sanderson1998Like Father, Like SantaMs. FischerTV film1998The Wedding SingerNice Lady on Plane1998Perfect PreyMrs. LearyTV film1999Lost & FoundMrs. Millstone1999Mona Arden2000Hanging UpAngie2001Just Ask My ChildrenCorene OliverTV film2001Comedy Central Thanxgiveaway: Home FiresEvelyn GordonTV film2002Point of OriginGabby FinnTV film2004Charlene2004Comedy Central Laughs for Life Telethon 2004Sen. LangmanTV film2006Gladys2008Broken AngelMrs. Kraus2009Little Fish, Strange PondLandlord2009Stellina BlueClare2009Crossing OverJudge Freeman2009Labor PainsAnn2009ProtectionMrs. ShapiroShort2010Letters to GodOlivia2017MidgeTV film2018Anyone Home?Mrs. Kakanian

Television Year Title Role Notes1965–68, 1970–71,1973, 1994,1996, 2010,2024–2025Days of Our LivesMarie HortonRegular role1969CoraEpisode: "And Then There Was One"1970GunsmokeAbigail HartlyEpisode: "McCabe"1971Miss EvansEpisode: "Center of Peril"1971Bearcats!Jessica AdamsEpisode: "Assault on San Saba"1972Hawaii Five-OAmy CarterEpisode: "R & R & R"1974–1984Search for TomorrowStephanie WyattContract role1986Cagney & LaceyMrs DelicathEpisode: "A Safe Place"1987HunterCynthia Jane BartlettEpisode: "Double Exposure"1987CBS Schoolbreak SpecialMrs. GeorgeEpisode: "Juvi"1987–91, 1997General HospitalCharlene SimpsonTV series1988Walt Disney's Wonderful World of ColorJanineEpisode: "Rock 'n' Roll Mom"1989CBS Summer PlayhouseIlene PattersonEpisode: "B-Men"1990ColumboMrs. RoweEpisode: "Columbo Goes to College"1991Quantum LeapMargaret TwillyEpisode: "Play Ball"1992Rachel Gunn, R.N.Amy ProctorEpisode: "I Dream of Squidhead"1992Empty NestAudreyEpisode: "Sayonara"1992–93Knots LandingMary RobesonRecurring role1994Emma TrusdaleEpisode: "The Show Must Go On"1995Acapulco BayVictoriaMain role1996MollyEpisode: "The Gift"1997ConanYantonaEpisode: "Ransom"1997Irma StephensonEpisode: "Space"1997ProfilerJudge ParamenEpisode: "Second Best"1998George and LeoLornaEpisode: "The Nine Wives of Leo Wagonman"1998ProfilerJudge ParamenEpisode: "The Root of All Evil"1998Beyond Belief: Fact or FictionNanny / MaggieEpisode: "The Red Eyed Creature"1998Promised LandThelma WickerEpisode: "Chasin' the Blues"1998Caroline in the CityDorothy BaxterEpisode: "Caroline and the Big Night"1999Port CharlesCharlene SimpsonTV series2002Judging AmyBettyEpisode: "Boston Terriers from France"2002PassionsMona3 episodes2002ScrubsMrs. WarnerEpisode: "My Case Study"2003Gov. WadeEpisode: "Disaster Relief"2004MonkEdna CoruthersEpisode: "Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month"2004Drake & JoshJosh's Driving InstructorEpisode: "Driver's License"2005Desperate HousewivesCealEpisode: "Color and Light"2005Cold CaseNancy WalshEpisode: "A Perfect Day"2007Boston LegalGeorgina BabineauxEpisode: "Angel of Death"2007In Case of EmergencyElizabeth YablonskyEpisodes: "The Good, the Bad and the Mob", "Disorder in the Court"2007'Til DeathMrs. WallachEpisode: "Performance Anxiety"2007Rules of EngagementMrs. FulfordEpisode: "Fix-Ups & Downs"2007WeedsNurseEpisode: "Protection"2009Ghost WhispererMyrna CoopertonEpisode: "This Joint's Haunted"2009Saving GraceSusanEpisode: "She's a Lump"2010OutlawDr. SeitzEpisode: "In Re: Jessica Davis"2011DexterUnnamed DocentEpisode: "The Angel of Death"2012GCBBoofie MarfesonEpisode: "Hell Hath No Fury"2012Hot in ClevelandMrs. FilsingerEpisode: "Rubber Ball"2012Free AgentsMrs. ClaymoreEpisode: "Nice Guys Finish at Some Point"2013–14Sam & CatNonaMain role2013–15Hart of DixieBettie BreelandRecurring role2015Mrs. MuellerEpisode: "Highway to the Manger Zone"2016−2021PearlRecurring role (seasons 3-8)2016MistressesStephanieEpisode: "Back to the Start"2016–19BasketsMaggieRecurring cast, 12 episodes2019BizaardvarkJoyceEpisode: "Eye of the Duckworth"2019Young SheldonDorothyEpisode: "A Parasol and a Hell of an Arm"2025MatlockSister PeggyEpisode: "Harm Reduction"

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