Mary Nell Santacroce
Mary Nell Santacroce was an American actress. She has appeared in such films as Wise Blood, The War and Something to Talk About. She was also the mother of actress Dana Ivey.Biography
Mary Nell McKoin was born in Atlanta, Georgia around 1917. She is a graduate of both the University of Georgia and Emory University. From 1948 to 1965, she taught speech and drama at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also taught at Georgia State University from 1965 till 1972.
She has two children, daughter Dana and son John, from her marriage to Hugh Ivey, which ended in divorce. She also has another son, Eric, from her marriage to Dante Santacroce, her namesake widower.
Santacroce died on February 17, 1999 at her home in Atlanta. The cause of death was leukemia and bone cancer.
