Sarah Siddons Award
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The Sarah Siddons Society is a provincial American non-profit organization founded in 1952 by prominent Chicago theatre patrons with the goal of promoting excellence in the theatre. The Society presents the Sarah Siddons Award annually to an actor for an outstanding performance in a Chicago theatre production. The winner receives a statuette of the Welsh stage actress Sarah Siddons (1775-1831).
The award stems from the fictional award referred to in the opening scene of the 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz film All About Eve. The film opens with the image of an award trophy, described by character Addison DeWitt (George Sanders) as the "highest honour our theater knows: the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement."
[edit] Past winners
Actress/Actor of the Year (alphabetically):
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