Joanne Woodward

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Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930 in Thomasville , Georgia ) is an American actress who was successful in Hollywood from the mid-1950s. For her role in the film drama Eva with the three faces , she won an Oscar in 1958 in the category "Best Actress". She is the widow of actor Paul Newman , with whom she appeared in many films.

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Woodward comes from a modest southern state, her acting career was initiated and strongly influenced by her mother's love for films. When Gone With The Wind first hit theaters, she was a huge fan of Laurence Olivier , Vivien Leigh's husband. She played with Olivier in 1979 in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba .

Woodward won several beauty pageants as a teenager . She attended high school in Greenville , studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and then moved to New York , where she took acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse near Sanford Meisner . From 1956 she appeared on Broadway .

In the cinema, Woodward first appeared in George Sherman's 1955 western film Count Three and Pray (1955). She continued to commute between Hollywood and Broadway. In the New York theater production of William Inges Picnick she appeared together with the five years older and then still unknown actor Paul Newman , whom she married in 1958. In the same year she played the role of a patient with dissociative identity disorder in the film drama Eva with the Three Faces , for which she was awarded an Oscar in the category "Best Actress" . Also in that year Woodward and Newman stood for the first time together in front of the camera (together with Orson Welles and Lee Remick ), namely in the literary film The Long Hot Summer ; further collaborations followed.

Joanne Woodwards star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Newman also used Woodward in some of his few films he directed, including the dramas The Love of a Summer (1968) and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Marigolds (1973). For The Love of a Summer she was awarded the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama and was also nominated for an Oscar. For The Effect of Gamma Rays on marigolds she received the Best Actor Award at the Film Festival of Cannes 1973 .

From the mid-1970s, Woodward was less seen in movies, instead she played more in television and theater productions. In the 1976 biographical, two-part television drama Sybil , Woodward played the psychiatrist Dr. Wilbur, who treats a young woman named Sybil, played by Sally Field , who has developed 16 different personalities as a result of a gruesome childhood. Occasionally she was later seen in movies, for example with Newman in the leading roles of a couple in James Ivory's drama Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) and as the mother of Tom Hanks ' terminally ill character in the Oscar-winning court drama Philadelphia (1993) . Most recently she stood in front of the camera as a wealthy matron next to her husband in the television production Empire Falls in 2005 , after which she worked as a narrator for various films until 2013.

Woodward lives in the town of Westport , Connecticut . She was politically active well into old age and between 2001 and 2005 she was the artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse in her home town of Westport. Her stepdaughter Susan Kendall Newman is also an actress. In the meantime, Joanne Woodward has withdrawn from the public due to Alzheimer's disease.

On February 9, 1960, Woodward got one of the first stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Oscar

  • Award
1958: Best Actress (Eva with the three faces)
  • Nominations
1969: Best Actress (The Love of a Summer)
1974: Best Actress (Summer Wishes - Winter Dreams)
1991: Best Actress (Mr. & Mrs. Bridge)

British film award

  • Award
1975: Best Actress (Summer Wishes - Winter Dreams)
  • Nominations
1958: Best foreign actress (Eva with the three faces)
1959: Best foreign actress (window without curtain)
1969: Best Actress (The Love of a Summer)

Emmy

  • Awards
1978: Outstanding leading actress in a drama or comedy special (GE True Theater: See How She Runs)
1985: Outstanding leading actress in a limited series or special (don't forget love)
1990: Outstanding Informational Special (American Masters: Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theater)
  • Nominations
1977: Outstanding leading actress in a drama or comedy special (The Big Event: Sybil)
1981: Outstanding leading actress in a limited series or special (Crisis at Central High)
1990: Outstanding Achievement in Informational Broadcast (American Masters: Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theater)
1993: Outstanding leading actress in a miniseries or a special (blind spot)
1994: Outstanding leading actress in a miniseries or a special (breathing exercises)
2005: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Empire Falls)

Golden Globe Award

  • Awards
1958: Best Actress - Drama (Eva with the three faces)
1969: Best Actress - Drama (The Love of a Summer)
1995: Best Actress - Mini-Series or TV Movie (Breathing Exercises)
  • Nominations
1964: Best Actress - Comedy or Musical (A New Kind of Love)
1973: Best Actress - Drama (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Marigolds)
1974: Best Actress - Drama (Summer Wishes - Winter Dreams)
1982: Best Actress - Mini-Series or TV Movie (Crisis at Central High)
1986: Best Actress - Mini-Series or TV Movie (Don't Forget Love)
1991: Best Actress - Drama (Mr. & Mrs. Bridge)
2006: Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie (Empire Falls)

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award

1969: Best Actress (The Love of a Summer)
1974: Best Actress (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Marigolds)
1975: Best Actress (Summer Wishes - Winter Dreams)
1991: Best Actress (Mr. & Mrs. Bridge)

New York Film Critics Circle Award

1968: Best Actress (The Love of a Summer)
1974: Best Actress (Summer Wishes - Winter Dreams)
1990: Best Actress (Mr. & Mrs. Bridge)

Screen Actors Guild Award

  • Awards
1986: Life Achievement Award
1995: Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries (Maggie, Maggie)
  • nomination
2006: Best Actress in a TV Movie or Mini-Series (Empire Falls)

Further awards

1957: National Board of Review Award for Best Actress (Eva with the three faces; window without curtain)
1958: Laurel Award for Best New Female Personality
1959: Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
1960: Actor Award of the San Sebastián International Film Festival (The Man in the Snakeskin)
1960: Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the "Film" category
1973: Actor Award of the Cannes International Film Festival (The effect of gamma rays on marigolds)
1975: Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute
1976: Golden Apple Award for Female Star of the Year

literature

  • Helen Krich Chinoy, Linda Walsh Jenkins: Women in American theater. Theater Communications Group: St. Paul, MN, New York 2006, ISBN 1-55936-263-4 .
  • Roy Harris: Eight women of the American stage. Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH 1997, ISBN 0-435-07040-1 .
  • Jordan Mejias: America: a portrait in portraits. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-39650-1 .
  • James Robert Parish: Hollywood's great love teams. Arlington House Publishers, New Rochelle, NY 1974, ISBN 0-87000-245-7 .
  • Joe Morella Morella, Edward Z. Epstein: Paul and Joanne: a biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Delacorte Press, New York, NY 1988, ISBN 0-440-50004-4 .
  • Susan Netter: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Piatkus, London 1989, ISBN 0-86188-869-3 .

Web links

Commons : Joanne Woodward  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UPDATE: Joanne Woodward Dementia Worsens; Memories of Late Husband Paul Newman Are Lost as She Suffers from Alzheimer's Disease; Family fight. In: The Life & Times of Hollywood. October 26, 2017. Retrieved November 12, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Woodward, Joanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woodward, Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Thomasville , Georgia , United States