Margaret "Peg" Phillips was a retired accountant when she began taking acting classes at age 65. In 1990 she was cast in the role of Ruth-Anne Miller, the shop keeper in the series Bienvenue en Alaska (1990). The role was supposed to be only intermittent, but Peg's portrayal won the hearts of viewers, and Ruth-Anne became a regular role. In addition to Bienvenue en Alaska (1990), Peg appeared with Shirley MacLaine in Waiting for the Light (1990) and TV movies Deux jumelles dans l'ouest (1994) and Chase (1985), and guest appearances in 7 à la maison (1996), Les anges du bonheur (1994), and Urgences (1994), and a number of commercials. Born in Everett, Washington, Peg overcame polio, peritonitis, a ruptured aorta, and, at age 81, a broken hip and wrist from being hit by a car. A smoker since age 13, Peg Phillips died of lung disease in a suburban Seattle care center. She was 84.
