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Joanne Woodward
from the trailer for the 1971 film They Might Be Giants
Born	Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward February 27, 1930 (1930-02-27) (age 79) Thomasville, Georgia, USA
Occupation	Actor
Spouse(s)	Paul Newman (1958–2008 his death)

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress. Woodward, 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 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 Awards 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links

Early life

Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia, daughter of Elinor Gignilliat (née Trimmier) and Wade Woodward, Jr., who at one point was vice president of publisher Charles Scribner's Sons.¹² Her middle name, "Gignilliat", originates from distant Huguenot ancestry.³ She was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies.³ Her mother named her after Joan Crawford, using the Southern pronunciation of the name - "Joanne".³ Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Woodward 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.

Woodward lived in Thomasville 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, after her parents divorced.³ She graduated from Greenville High School in 1947, in Greenville, South Carolina. Woodward won many beauty contests as a teenager. She appeared in theatrical productions at Greenville High and in Greenville's Little Theatre, playing Laura Wingfield in their staging of The Glass Menagerie directed by Robert Hemphill McLane. She returned to Greenville in 1976 to play Amanda Wingfield in another Little Theatre production of The Glass Menagerie. She had also returned in 1955 for the premiere of her debut movie, Count Three And Pray, at the Paris Theatre on North Main Street.

She majored in drama at Louisiana State University, where she was an initiate of Chi Omega sorority, then headed to New York City to perform on the stage.³

Career

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.³ The two were married in 1958 after their work together in the film The Long, Hot Summer. By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.³

Films with Paul Newman

She appeared with husband Paul Newman in ten 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)
• Winning (1969)
• WUSA (1970)
• The Drowning Pool (1975)
• Harry & Son (1984) - (directed by Newman)
• Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990)

Both appeared in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls but had no scenes together.

She starred in five films that Newman directed or produced but in which he did not star:

• Rachel, Rachel (1968)
• They Might Be Giants (1971)
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - which featured their daughter, Nell Potts (1972)
• The Shadow Box (1980) - (television movie)
• The Glass Menagerie (1987)

Later career

Woodward has continued to act, in such films as Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and Philadelphia (1993) in which she played the mother to Tom Hanks' character,³ and in television. She 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.

Woodward was a co-producer and starred in a 1993 broadcast of the play Blind Spot, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie. She was executive producer of the 2003 television production of Our Town, featuring Newman as the stage manager (for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.) She wrote the teleplay and directed a 1982 production of Shirley Jackson's story Come Along with Me, for which husband Newman provided the voice of the character Hughie under the screen name of P. L. Neuman.

Woodward is the artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse.³

She recorded a reading of singer John Mellencamp's song "The Real Life" from his box set On the Rural Route 7609.

Personal life

Joanne had been briefly engaged to author Gore Vidal prior to marrying Paul Newman. She shared a house with Vidal in Los Angeles for a short time and remained friends. Woodward married Paul Newman on January 29, 1958. They had three daughters: Elinor Teresa (1959; known on screen as Nell Potts and generally as Nell Newman), Melissa "Lissy" Stewart (1961), and Claire "Clea" Olivia (1965). She lives in Westport, Connecticut, but the Newmans were extremely private about their personal life. Newman occasionally ventured to California, but Woodward refused to go west for many years. Paul Newman died of cancer on September 26, 2008, aged 83. The couple have two grandchildren.

In 1990, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College alongside her daughter, Clea.³

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1955	Count Three and Pray	Lissy
1956	A Kiss Before Dying	Dorothy ('Dorie') Kingship
1957	The Three Faces of Eve	Eve White / Eve Black / Jane	Academy Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama National Board of Review Award for Best Actress Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress
	No Down Payment	Leola Boone	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress
1958	The Long, Hot Summer	Clara Varner
	Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!	Grace Oglethorpe Bannerman
1959	The Sound and the Fury	Quentin Compson/Narrator
	The Fugitive Kind	Carol Cutrere	San Sebastián International Film Festival Zulueta Prize for Best Actress
1960	From the Terrace	Mary St. John/Mrs. Alfred Eaton
1961	Paris Blues	Lillian Corning
1963	The Stripper	Lila Green
	A New Kind of Love	Samantha (Sam) Blake/Mimi	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1964	Signpost to Murder	Molly Thomas
1966	A Big Hand for the Little Lady	Mary
	A Fine Madness	Rhoda Shillitoe
1968	Rachel, Rachel	Rachel Cameron	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
1969	Winning	Elora Capua
1970	WUSA	Geraldine
1971	They Might Be Giants	Dr. Mildred Watson
	All the Way Home	Mary Follet	TV
1972	The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds	Beatrice	Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1973	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams	Rita Walden	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1975	The Drowning Pool	Iris Devereaux
1976	Sybil	Dr. Cornelia B. Wilbur	TV Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
1977	Come Back, Little Sheba	Lola Delaney	TV
1978	See How She Runs	Betty Quinn	TV Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
	The End	Jessica Lawson
	A Christmas to Remember	Mildred McCloud	TV
1979	The Streets of L.A.	Carol Schramm	TV
1980	The Shadow Box	Beverly	TV
1981	Crisis at Central High	Elizabeth Huckaby	TV Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
1982	Candida	Candida	TV
1984	Harry & Son	Lilly
	Passions	Catherine Kennerly	TV
1985	Do You Remember Love	Barbara Wyatt-Hollis	TV Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
1986	Women - for America, for the World		Short documentary
1987	The Glass Menagerie	Amanda Wingfield	Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female
1990	Mr. and Mrs. Bridge	India Bridge	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female
1993	Foreign Affairs	Vinnie Miner	TV
	Blind Spot	Nell Harrington	TV Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
	The Age of Innocence	Narrator (voice)
	Philadelphia	Sarah Beckett
1994	Breathing Lessons	Maggie Moran	TV Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
1996	Even If a Hundred Ogres...	Narrator (voice)
2005	Empire Falls	Francine Whiting	TV Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Awards

In 1958, Woodward won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Three Faces of Eve.³ She was nominated for Best Actress in 1969 for Rachel, Rachel, in 1974 for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, and in 1991 for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge. She was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974 for her performance in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

Woodward won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for See How She Runs (1978) as a divorced teacher who trains for a marathon, and in 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 roles on television.

On February 9, 1960, Joanne Woodward became the first performer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.

References

Further reading

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Joanne Woodward

• Joanne Woodward at the Internet Movie Database
• Joanne Woodward at Allmovie
• Joanne Woodward's thoughts on Earth Day 2006

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Persondata
NAME	Woodward, Joanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Woodward, Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress, producer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Thomasville, Georgia, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH