Big Momma — Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Character Profile

About Big Momma

Big Daddy's wife who initially remains quiet but steps up to resist Gooper and Mae's attempts to cut Brick and Maggie out of the family fortune when her husband is absent.

Character Facts

Played by

Judith Anderson

Appears in

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Role

Supporting

More characters from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• Brick (Paul Newman)
• Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt (Burl Ives)
• Sonny Pollitt (Robert 'Rusty' Stevens)
• Gooper (Jack Carson)
• Mae (Madeleine Sherwood)
• Buster Pollitt (Hugh Corcoran)
• Deacon Davis (Vaughn Taylor)
• Dr. Baugh (Larry Gates)
• Boy (Brian Corcoran)
• Servant (Zelda Cleaver)