‘Money and Friends’ Role Has a Familiar Ring for Linda Thorson

“My motto is the older you get as a woman, the further East you should move,” quips Linda Thorson, who stars as a caustic divorcee in the comedy “Money and Friends” at the Doolittle Theatre.

Los Angeles is the worst city for women, explains Thorson, who played Tara King on the classic ‘60s series “The Avengers.”

“Then you go to New York, which is a little better, and then you are certainly valued more in England. By the time you get to the Orient, old people are revered. It’s too bad (it isn’t the case here). I always felt you should look to yourself for blame, so maybe women have allowed it to happen. But I think Hillary Clinton is about to change all of that!”

Female audiences, Thorson’s discovered, identify with her character of Margaret, a fortysomething mother who tries to retain her youth by dating younger men. “I guess women identify with the idea that there’s not the same stigma attached to a man growing older. Everyone says (men) get better and more wonderful.”

Thorson herself feels a kinship with Margaret. “Strangely enough, when I read the first line: ‘When my husband left me six years ago for a woman 15 years younger than I,’ that is precisely what happened to me. I had enough perspective that it had been six years and I could laugh. If I had read (the line) four or five years ago, I probably would have wept.”

Since her divorce, the mother of 7-year-old Trevor has gotten on with her life. “I have nothing to cry about,” Thorson says. “Life has its ups and downs.”

When not working in Los Angeles, Thorson and Trevor call Westchester, N.Y., home. “I find it very ideal. It’s a community where he can grow up with other kids. I know it’s kind of crazy because everyone has moved out here. I feel I will probably work by default, because I will be one of the few actors still in New York City!”