Phyllis Frelich

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Phyllis Frelich (born February 29, 1944 in Devils Lake , North Dakota , † April 10, 2014 in Temple City , California ) was an American film and stage actress . The deaf actress received the 1980 Tony Award for Best Actress in Children of a Lesser God .

Life

Frelich was born in Devils Lake, the eldest daughter of Esther and Phillip Frelich. Both her parents and her eight siblings were deaf. She went to the North Dakota School for the Deaf and graduated in 1962. She then attended Gallaudet College and joined the National Theater of the Deaf , where she met her husband Robert Steinberg.

In 1980, Frelich won the Tony Award for her Broadway role in The Forgotten Children of God by Mark Medoff . The play was later filmed with Marlee Matlin and won an Academy Award. In 1981 Frelich received the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, the highest honor in the state of North Dakota.

She developed progressive supranuclear palsy and died in her Temple City home at the age of 70.

Honors

  • 1980 Tony Award for Best Actress in Children of a Lesser God
  • 1981 Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deaf actress Phyllis Frelich has died. gebaerdenwelt.tv, April 14, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Phyllis Frelich. Retrieved February 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Phyllis Frelich, Tony-Winning Actress and Deaf Activist, Dies at 70. The New York Times, April 14, 2014, accessed February 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Frelich, Phyllis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Devils Lake , North Dakota
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2014
Place of death Temple City , California