Joanne Woodward

American actress

Photo by: MGM · Public Domain · Wikimedia Commons

Born:February 27, 1930

Age:96

Zodiac Sign:Pisces

Children:3

Born in:Thomasville, United States

Residence:Westport, United States

Languages:English

Actor Theatrical Producer Television Producer Stage Actor Television Actor Film Actor Voice Actor Film Producer

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Photo credits (2)

Joanne Woodward:
Photo by: MGM · Public Domain · Wikimedia Commons
Paul Newman:
Photo by: U.S. Navy photographer · Public Domain · Wikimedia Commons

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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 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. 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. Woodward 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. 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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Photos

Publicity still of actress Joanne Woodward taken for the 1964 film, Signpost to Murder.

Joanne Woodward

Publicity photo for the American documentary film King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970). Original caption: " Director Prepares for King Film ... [actress] Joanne Woodward and [director] Sydney Lumet review a passage to be performed in the film entitled: " King: A Filmed Record. . . . Montgomery to Memphis". Scheduled for a one-time only nation-wide simultaneous showing, Tuesday evening, March 24th at 8:00 p.m. in more than 1,000 theatres. Tickets are $5 tax-deductible. All proceeds (some $5 million) will go to the Martin Luther King, Jr. special fund.

American actress Joanne Woodward.

Cropped screenshot of Joanne Woodward from the trailer for the film Winning

Cropped screenshot of Joanne Woodward from the trailer for the film The Stripper

Screenshot of Joanne Woodward from the trailer for the film They Might Be Giants

Title: Actress Joanne Woodward poses in front of carriage barn, Museum of Westport History, in Westport, Connecticut Physical description: 1 transparency : color ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller. Notes: The carriage barn was reassembled cobblestone by stone. Joanne and her husband, Paul Newman, contributed much of the restoration funds.; Forms part of the Selects Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:124).; Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.; Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.