Judith Anderson

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Judith Anderson in 1934

Dame Judith Anderson , actually Frances Margaret Anderson (born February 10, 1897 in Adelaide , South Australia , † January 3, 1992 in Santa Barbara , California ), was an Australian actress .

Life

Judith Anderson was born in Adelaide, Australia, where she also completed her school education. After gaining experience as an actress in Australia, she moved to New York City in the United States in 1918 . On Broadway , the actress was able to earn a good reputation through appearances in Shakespeare plays. She played Nina Leeds in Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude in 1928 and Lavinia in O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra in 1932 . Between the 1930s and 1950s, she was one of the most important character actresses on Broadway. Gertrude with John Gielgud as Hamlet in 1936, Lady Macbeth in the London (1937) and New York (1941) productions of Macbeth and the title role in Robinson Jeffers ' adaptation of the Greek tragedy Medea in 1947 are considered highlights of her stage career . She received the Tony Award for her appearance on Broadway in Medea .

Since the 1940s, Anderson worked in addition to her theater work again and again as a supporting actress in Hollywood cinema. Her portrayal of the morbidly jealous Mrs. Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's later classic film Rebecca (1940) achieved great fame . For this performance, she received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. From then on she played a number of mostly dark, mysterious women, such as the suspicious aunt Ann Treadwell in Laura (1944) and Emily Brent in the Agatha Christie film The Last Weekend (1945). In 1958 she played the role of Big Mama in the theater film The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) with Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in the lead roles. As a television actress, Anderson managed the curiosity of receiving an Emmy Award for the same role (Lady Macbeth) in two different Macbeth productions .

In 1960 she was ennobled as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire . Anderson remained active as an actress well into old age: In 1984 she was in Star Trek III: In Search of Mr. Spock , in the same year the then 87-year-old Anderson also took on one of the leading roles in the television series California Clan . Judith Anderson last lived in Santa Barbara, where she died in 1992 at the age of 94 of complications from pneumonia . She had been married twice, both marriages divorced.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1941: Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Rebecca
  • 1948: Tony Award for Best Actress for Medea
  • 1951: Primetime Emmy Award nomination for best actress
  • 1955: Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actress for Macbeth
  • 1959: Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actress for The DuPont Show of the Month
  • 1961: Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actress for Macbeth
  • 1968: Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actress for Elizabeth the Queen
  • 1971: Laurel Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for A Man They Called Horse (fourth place).
  • 1971: Western Heritage Award for A Man They Called Horse
  • 1974: Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Achievement in a Children's Program for The Borrowers
  • 1983: Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Medea
  • 1985: Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Star Trek III
  • 1986: Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Santa Barbara

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Article "Dame Judith Anderson" in the Encyclopædia Britannica .
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Judith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Frances Margaret (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide , South Australia, Australia
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1992
Place of death Santa Barbara , California, United States