Joanne Woodward
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.
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)
- 1954. Tales of Tomorrow (TV series, one episode)
- 1955: Count Three and Pray
- 1956 A kiss before death (A Kiss Before Dying)
- 1956: Alfred Hitchcock presents (TV series, an episode)
- 1957: Eva with the three faces (The Three Faces of Eve)
- 1957: Window without a curtain (No Down Payment)
- 1958: The Long, Hot Summer (The Long, Hot Summer)
- 1958: Don't be afraid of spicy things (Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!)
- 1959: Pirates of the South (The Sound and the Fury)
- 1960: The Fugitive Kind (The Fugitive Kind)
- 1960: Paris Blues
- 1960: From the Terrace
- 1963: An New Kind of Love
- 1963: The Lost Rose (The Stripper)
- 1964: Signpost to Murder
- 1966: Highest stakes in Laredo (A Big Hand for the Little Lady)
- 1966: Samson can't be beaten (A Fine Madness)
- 1968: A Summer's Love (Rachel, Rachel)
- 1969: Indianapolis (Winning)
- 1970: Then My Life Wasn't In Vain - Martin Luther King (King: A Filmed Record ... Montgomery to Memphis)
- 1970: machinations (WUSA)
- 1971: The Wrong Sherlock Holmes (They Might Be Giants)
- 1972: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
- 1973: Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
- 1975: You Don't Die Underwater (The Drowning Pool)
- 1976: Sybil (TV miniseries, two episodes)
- 1978: Nobody is Perfect (The End)
- 1979: The Streets of LA (TV movie)
- 1980: Endstation Malibu ( The Shadow Box ; TV movie)
- 1984: Harry & Son (Harry & Son)
- 1984: The Lie - Mourning Ribbon for Two Lovers ( Passions ; TV movie)
- 1985: Do You Remember Love? (TV movie)
- 1987: The Glass Menagerie (The Glass Menagerie)
- 1990: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
- 1993: Foreign Affairs (TV movie)
- 1993: Deadly Addiction ( Blind Spot ; TV Movie)
- 1993: Philadelphia
- 1993: The Age of Innocence ( The Age of Innocence , as the narrator)
- 1994: Maggie, Maggie ( Breathing Lessons ; TV movie)
- 2005: Empire Falls (TV miniseries, two episodes)
- 2013: Lucky Them - In Search of Matthew Smith ( Lucky Them ; voice only)
Awards (selection)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Joanne Woodward in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Biography at prisma.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 | |
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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 |