Joanne Woodward
American actress

Born:February 27, 1930
Age:96
Zodiac Sign:Pisces
Children:3
Born in:Thomasville, United States
Residence:Thomasville, United States
Languages:English
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Famous For
Movies & TV
PhiladelphiaThe Age of InnocenceThe Long, Hot SummerThe Three Faces of EveRachel, Rachel
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film (1995)Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie (1995)Kennedy Center Honors (1992)Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Want (1991)New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (1990)
Joanne Woodward
American actress
Biography
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American former 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. 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 winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress. 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. Until his death in 2008, she was married for fifty years to 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 1990, Woodward earned a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College at age 60, graduating alongside her daughter Clea.
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Publicity still of actress Joanne Woodward taken for the 1964 film, Signpost to Murder.

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Publicity portrait of the movie The Long, Hot Summer, depicting Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film (1995)