Joanne Woodward

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Joanne Woodward
Joanne Woodward
Birth name	Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward
Born	February 27, 1930 (age 77) Thomasville, Georgia, US
Spouse(s)	Paul Newman (1958-present)
Notable roles	Dr. Cornelia Wilbur in Sybil
Academy Awards
Best Actress 1957 The Three Faces of Eve

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy award winning American actress. Woodward, who is married to Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Early career 2.2 Films with Paul Newman 2.3 Later career 2.4 Academy Awards 2.5 Emmy Awards 3 Private life 4 Trivia 5 External links

[edit] Early life

Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia, where she remained until she was in the second grade. Her family relocated to Marietta, Georgia. They moved once again when she was a junior in high school. She graduated from Greenville High School in 1947, in Greenville, South Carolina. Woodward won many beauty contests as a teenager. She majored in drama at Louisiana State University, where she was an initiate of Chi Omega Fraternity, then headed to New York City to perform on the stage.

She was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies. Her mother wanted to name her after Joan Crawford, but then her parents decided that "Joanne" was more Southern. Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Joanne rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of Laurence Olivier, star Vivien Leigh's husband. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1979, in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba.

[edit] Career

[edit] Early career

Woodward's first film was a post-Civil War western Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually, understudying in the New York production of Picnic which featured Paul Newman. 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.

[edit] Films with Paul Newman

She appeared with her husband, Paul Newman in the featured films:

• The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
• Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
• From the Terrace (1960)
• Paris Blues (1961)
• A New Kind of Love (1963) - a lightweight romantic comedy that she persuaded Newman to make.
• Winning (1969)
• WUSA (1970)
• The Drowning Pool (1975)
• Harry & Son (1984) - which Newman also directed
• Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990)

They both also appeared in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls but did not have any scenes together.

She starred in four films that Newman directed or produced but did not star in:

• Rachel, Rachel (1968)
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - which also starred their daughter, Nell Potts.
• The Shadow Box (1980) - a television movie
• The Glass Menagerie (1987)

[edit] Later career

Woodward has continued to act on stage, films, and television in such films as Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and Philadelphia (1993) in which she played the mother to Tom Hanks' character. She also appeared in the television films Sybil opposite Sally Field and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for Martin Scorsese's screen version of The Age of Innocence.

She has produced, co-produced and directed a number of TV programs.

Woodward is currently artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse.

[edit] Academy Awards

• 1958 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Three Faces of Eve
• 1969 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Rachel, Rachel
• 1974 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
• 1991 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

[edit] Emmy Awards

She won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TF Movie, for See How She Runs (1978) as a divorced teacher who trains for a marathon, and in the same category again for Do You Remember Love? (1985) as a professor who begins to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. She has been nominated an additional five times for her acting roles on television.

[edit] Private life

Woodward married Paul Newman on January 29, 1958. They have three daughters: Elinor Teresa (1959), Melissa Steward (1961), and Claire "Clea" Olivia (1965). She and Newman live in Westport, Connecticut, but are extremely private about their personal lives. Newman will occasionally venture to California, but Woodward has refused to go west for many years.

In 1990, she was graduated from Sarah Lawrence College alongside her daughter, Clea.

Awards
Preceded by Ingrid Bergman for Anastasia	Academy Award for Best Actress 1957 for The Three Faces of Eve	Succeeded by Susan Hayward for I Want to Live!
Preceded by Ingrid Bergman for Anastasia	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1958 for The Three Faces of Eve	Succeeded by Susan Hayward for I Want To Live!
Preceded by Edith Evans for The Whisperers	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1969 for Rachel, Rachel	Succeeded by Geneviève Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days

[edit] Trivia

• She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 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 (credited to the imaginary actress Eve Channing; see [1]) 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.

[edit] External links

• Joanne Woodward at the Internet Movie Database
• Joanne Woodward's thoughts on Earth Day 2006[[de:Joanne Woodward]M