Phyllis Newman

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Phyllis Newman
Born (1933-03-19) March 19, 1933
Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation Actress/Singer
Years active 1952 – present
Spouse(s) Adolph Green (1960-2002) (His death)

Phyllis Newman (born March 19, 1933) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Biography

Early life

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey,[1] she attended PS 17 and Lincoln High School where she was voted "Future Hollywood Star" (for her role in "I Remember Mama") and "Most Pull with the Faculty."

Broadway

Newman made her Broadway debut in Wish You Were Here in 1952. Additional theater credits include Bells Are Ringing, Pleasures and Palaces, The Apple Tree, On the Town, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Awake and Sing!, Broadway Bound, and Subways Are For Sleeping, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, beating out Barbra Streisand in I Can Get It for You Wholesale. She has been nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award and received a second Tony nomination for Broadway Bound.

In June 1979, Newman and Arthur Laurents collaborated on the one-woman show The Madwoman of Central Park West. Produced by Fritz Holt, it featured songs by Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Bock, John Kander, Martin Charnin, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Edward Kleban, Fred Ebb, Sheldon Harnick, Peter Allen, Barry Manilow, Carole Bayer Sager, and Stephen Sondheim, among others. The show ran for 86 performances at the 22 Steps Theatre in New York City.[2]

Television

Newman guest starred in an episode of Beverly Garland's groundbreaking crime drama, Decoy. She was then cast in 1960 as Doris Hudson in the CBS summer replacement series Diagnosis: Unknown, with Patrick O'Neal as the pathologist Dr. Daniel Coffee and Martin Huston as the handyman named Link. Newman became a major television celebrity of the 1960s and 1970s, a frequent panelist on the top-rated network game shows What's My Line?, Match Game, and To Tell the Truth and a perennial guest of Johnny Carson's on NBC's The Tonight Show. She created the role of Rene Buchanan on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live and was a regular on the primetime series 100 Centre Street and the NBC satirical series That Was The Week That Was. Other television credits include The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Burke's Law, ABC Stage 67, thirtysomething, Murder, She Wrote, The Wild Wild West, and Coming of Age.

On screen, she appeared in Bye Bye Braverman, The Beautician and the Beast, A Price Above Rubies, Mannequin (1987), and The Human Stain.

The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative

In 1995, Newman founded The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of The Actors' Fund of America. Since then she has hosted the annual Nothing Like a Dame galas, which have raised more than US$3.5 million and has served 2,500 women in the entertainment industry.[3][4]

Newman received the Isabelle Stevenson Award, a special Tony Award, first presented in 2009, for her work with the Health Initiative. This award recognizes "an individual from the theatre community for [his or her] humanitarian work."[5][6]

Personal life

Newman was married to Adolph Green from 1960 until his death in 2002. She is the mother of Adam and Amanda Green.[3]

Her memoir Just in Time: Notes from My Life (1984), relates her career, life with her husband, Adolph, and her bout with cancer.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Biography filmreference.com, retrieved March 13, 2009
  2. ↑ The Madwoman of Central Park West listing guidetomusicaltheatre.com, retrieved March 13, 2009
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Finn, Robin."Still a Broadway Baby After All These Years",The New York Times, February 27, 2004
  4. ↑ Gans, Andrew.Annual Nothing Like a Dame Benefit Concert Sets 2008 Date", playbill.com, Oct 1, 2007
  5. ↑ Pesner, Ben."The Tonys Honor Jerry Herman, Phyllis Newman, Virginia's Signature Theatre, and Shirley Herz", tonyawards.com, accessed May 6, 2009
  6. ↑ Jones, Kenneth."'Billy Elliot', 'Norman Conquests', 'Hair', 'God of Carnage' Are Tony Award Winners" playbill.com, June 7, 2009
  7. ↑ Listing amazon.ca, retrieved March 13, 2009

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