Beth Broderick (born Elizabeth Alice Broderick February 24, 1959) is an American actress. She is best known for her role on the ABC sitcom,Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Zelda Spellman. She is also well known for her role as Barbara Mann on the ABC-TV series Castle.
She played Miss Penza in the Season 5 episode of Married... with Children titled "And Baby Makes Money".
Career[]
TV/Films[]
Beth's television credits include The 5 Mrs. Buchanans, Hearts Afire, Supernatural and Glory Days. She has also guest starred on CBS-TV's Northern Exposure in the 1992 episode "It Happened In Juneau", playing a lusty doctor hunting for a one night stand with Dr. Joel Fleischman played by Rob Morrow. In 1997 she appeared in the racy Showtime TV series Women: Stories of Passion ("The Bitter and the Sweet" 2:17). She also had a minor, recurring role in the hit ABC series, Lost, as Kate Austen's mother, Diane and also played a minor role in CSI: Miami during a tsunami where she played a neighbor to CSI Ryan Wolfe's uncle.[1] More recently, she had guest starring roles on the TNT series Leverage and ABC-TV's Castle.
In 2020, she, along with her Sabrina, The Teenage Witch co-star, Caroline Rhea, reprised their roles as Zelda and Hilda Spellman for the Netflix series, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. In this version, they are credited as "Sitcom Zelda and Hilda" and are modified versions of their original ABC counterpart.
In 2023, she appeared on the What Women Binge podcast with her Sabrina, The Teenage Witch co-star, Melissa Joan Hart, who played the titular character, Sabrina Spellman.
Theatre[]
She has also appeared in several theater productions like Carnal Knowledge, Triplets in Uniform and Zastrozzi, the Master of Discipline (which she also co-produced). In New York she has starred in The Mousetrap, The Lion in Winter and many more. She was recently in the Chicago Northlight Theatre production of the one woman show titled Bad Dates. She has also played a role in Women: Stories of Passion. Beth also has written the plays A Cup of Joe, Wonderland and Literatti with Dennis Bailey. She directed three episodes of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: "Guilty!" (2002), "Cloud Ten" (2002), "Making the Grade" (2001).