Joanne Woodward | |
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Born | Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward February 27, 1930 Thomasville, Georgia, U.S. |
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Alma mater | Sarah Lawrence College |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1950–2013 |
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Children | 3, including Nell and Melissa Newman |
Awards | Full list |
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American retired actress. She made her career breakthrough in the 1950s and earned esteem and respect playing complex women with a characteristic nuance and depth of character.[1] Her accolades include an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She is the oldest living Best Actress Oscar-winner.
Woodward is perhaps best known for her performance as a woman with dissociative identity disorder in The Three Faces of Eve (1957), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She is the widow of actor Paul Newman, with whom she often collaborated either as a co-star, or as an actor in films directed or produced by him. In 1960, she became the first person to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[2] In 1990, Woodward earned a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College at age 60, graduating alongside her daughter Clea.[3]
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