{"id":2355618,"date":"2026-04-02T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2355618"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:01:01","slug":"hallmark-christmas-movie-actress-dead-at-85-rip-to-marcia-ann-burrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hallmark-christmas-movie-actress-dead-at-85-rip-to-marcia-ann-burrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallmark Christmas Movie Actress Dead at 85: RIP to Marcia Ann Burrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Marcia Ann Burrs, a character actress known for playing Mrs. Claus in two beloved Hallmark films, died Sunday. She was 85.<\/p>\n<p>The late actress\u2019 family announced in her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsellfuneralhomes.com\/obituaries\/marcia-bures\">obituary<\/a> that she had died on March 22 while surrounded by loved ones in Matthews, N.C. They remembered her as a \u201cmuch-loved wife, mother, grandmother and lifelong performer\u201d who \u201clived with heart, humor, creativity and an unapologetic toughness that brought authenticity to every role she played on screen and in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Peri Gilpin as Roz Doyle and Marcia Ann Burrs as Aunt Pearl on \u2018Frasier\u2019 (Photo by: NBC\/NBCU Photo Bank)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Burrs, who also used the last name Bures outside of her career, is known for her Hallmark holiday films \u2014 <em>Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus<\/em> (2004) and its sequel <em>Meet the Santas <\/em>(2005), which also starred Steve Guttenberg, Crystal Bernard and John Wheeler. <\/p>\n<p>She also appeared in dozens of television shows throughout her three decades in Hollywood, including <em>Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother, Grace and Frankie, The Slap Maxwell Story, Moonlighting, 7th Heaven, Will &amp; Grace, Gilmore Girls, Frasier, Monk, It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The King of Queens, My Name Is Earl, Scrubs, Bones, Criminal Minds, Grey\u2019s Anatomy, Angie Tribeca <\/em>and<em> Young Sheldon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On the big screen, Burrs appeared in Rob Reiner\u2019s <em>Rumor Has It \u2026<\/em> (2005), Sofia Coppola\u2019s <em>The Bling Ring<\/em> (2013) and <em>Izzy Gets the F\u2014k Across Town<\/em> (2017).<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-savage-platform-youtube-placeholder\" data-component=\"youtube-placeholder\">\n\t\t<button type=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Play video<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" width=\"72\" height=\"50.76\"><use href=\"#am-symbol-youtube-play-dark\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/iXLElQUoZlA\/maxresdefault.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/iXLElQUoZlA\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/picture>\n\t\t<\/button><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<template><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marcia Ann Burrs - Commercial\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iXLElQUoZlA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/template><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<noscript><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marcia Ann Burrs - Commercial\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iXLElQUoZlA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/noscript>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>Born Marcia Hoffman on Nov. 25, 1940, in Manila, the Philippines, Burrs went on to perform in school plays before studying drama at William &amp; Mary. She went on to move to New York, where she kicked off her career in musical theater, commercials and soap operas before moving to California to continue her work in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough she loved performing her favorite role was Mom \u2014 the one she cherished most,\u201d Burrs\u2019 family wrote in her obituary. \u201cShe taught her kids that life was limitless, rules were optional, and you could do anything. She lived it, she meant it, and she passed it on like a family superpower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burrs is survived by her daughters, Jennifer and Diana; her sons-in-law, Douglas and James; her grandsons, Grant and Talon; her brothers, Fred (and wife Judy) and Greg (Jayne); and her sister, Toni. Burrs\u2019 husband of 52 years, NBC business executive Joe Bures, died in January 2020 at the age of 83.<\/p>\n<p>A private family service has been scheduled to celebrate Burrs\u2019 life, and people can share their condolences online\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsellfh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source popculture.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcia Ann Burrs, a character actress known for playing Mrs. Claus in two beloved Hallmark films, died Sunday. She was 85. The late actress\u2019 family announced in her obituary that she had died on March 22 while surrounded by loved ones in Matthews, N.C. They remembered her as a \u201cmuch-loved wife, mother, grandmother and lifelong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2355619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,323324],"class_list":["post-2355618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-hallmark-channel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hallmark-Christmas-Movie-Actress-Dead-at-85-RIP-to-Marcia.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355621,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355618\/revisions\/2355621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}