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Joanne Woodward

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an Emmy Award Emmy Award

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-winning American United States

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 actress. Woodward, who is married to Paul Newman Paul Newman

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, is also a television and theatrical producer.

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1930   Born

1960   Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an Emmy Award Emmy Award

The Emmy Awards are United States [i] television [i] production awards, similar to the Peabody Award [i]... 

 and Academy Award Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film [i] awards in the United States [i] ... 

-winning American United States

The United States of America, also known as the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., a... 

 actress. Woodward, who is married to Paul Newman Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman is an Academy Award [i]-winning American [i] actor [i] and film director [i] ... 

, is also a television and theatrical producer.

Early life

Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia Thomasville, Georgia

[i], [[United States]... 

, and was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies. Her mother wanted to name her after Joan Crawford Joan Crawford

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, but then her parents felt that the name "Joanne" was more Southern. Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind

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in Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia

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, nine-year-old Joanne rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of Laurence Olivier Laurence Olivier

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, star Vivien Leigh Vivien Leigh

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's husband. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1979, in a television Television

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 production of Come Back, Little Sheba.



Woodward won many beauty contest Beauty contest

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s as a teenager. She majored in drama at Louisiana State University Louisiana State University

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, then headed to New York City New York City

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 to perform on the stage.

Early career

Woodward's first film was a post-Civil War western Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

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 and Broadway Broadway theatre

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, eventually, understudying in the New York production of Picnic Picnic

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which featured Paul Newman Paul Newman

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. The two were married in 1958. By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Films with Paul Newman

She appeared with her husband, Paul Newman in the featured films:
  • The Long, Hot Summer
  • Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
  • From the Terrace
  • Paris Blues
  • A New Kind of Love - a lightweight romantic comedy that she persuaded Newman to make.
  • Winning
  • WUSA
  • The Drowning Pool
  • Harry & Son - which Newman also directed
  • Mr. and Mrs. Bridge Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

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They both also appeared in the HBO HBO

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 miniseries Empire Falls but did not have any scenes together.

She starred in four films that Newman directed but did not star in:
  • Rachel, Rachel
  • The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - which also starred their daughter, Nell Potts.
  • The Shadow Box - a television movie
  • The Glass Menagerie

Later Career

Woodward has continued to act on stage, films, and television in such films as Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and Philadelphia in which she played the mother to Tom Hanks Tom Hanks

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' character. She also appeared in the television films Sybil opposite Sally Field Sally Field

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 and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese

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's screen version of The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence

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.

Private life

In 1990, she was graduated from Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College

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 alongside her daughter, Clea. She and Newman live in Wesport, Connecticut but are extremely private about their personal lives. Woodward is currently artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse Westport Country Playhouse

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Newman will occasionally venture to California California

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, but Woodward has refused to go West for many years.

Academy Awards

  • 1991 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Mr. and Mrs. Bridge Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

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  • 1974 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
  • 1969 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Rachel, Rachel
  • 1958 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Three Faces of Eve

Emmy Awards

She won Emmy Awards Emmy Award

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 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for See How She Runs as a divorced teacher who trains for a marathon, and in the same category again for Do You Remember Love? as a professor who begins to suffer from Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease

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. She has been nominated an additional five times for her acting roles on television.

Miscellaneous

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Hollywood Walk of Fame

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 at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. She was the first performer to receive a star on the Walk of Fame. It was laid on February 9, 1960.

The very briefly glimpsed portrait of the unseen character
Marguerite Wyke in the 1972 film Sleuth is actually of Woodward.

In Three Faces of Eve she portrays a character suffering from multiple personality disorder. In Sybil, she portrays a character treating a persona with multiple personality disorder. Both are among her most famous roles.

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