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American actress, comedian and author

Fannie Flagg (born Patricia Neal; September 21, 1944)^[1] is an American actress, comedian, and author.

She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–1982 versions of the game show Match Game and for the 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which she adapted into the script for the 1991 motion picture Fried Green Tomatoes.

She was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation.^[2] Flagg lives in California and Alabama.^[3]

Early life

Born Patricia Neal in Birmingham, Alabama, Flagg is the only child of William Hurbert Neal Jr.

and Marion Leona (née LeGore).^{[citation needed]}

Aside from a brief period on the Gulf Coast near the town of Point Clear, Flagg spent her childhood in the Birmingham area.^[4]

Encouraged by her father, Flagg became interested in writing and performing at an early age, writing her first play when s