Dana Ivey
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Dana Robins Ivey (born August 12, 1941) is an American actress.
She has been nominated for five Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway and in 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her role in both Sex and Longing and Ballyhoo.
The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1989), The Addams Family (1991), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Rush Hour 3 (2007), and The Help (2011).
Early life and family
Ivey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Mary Nell Ivey Santacroce (née McKoin) was a coach, speech therapist, and actress who appeared in Driving Miss Daisy and Georgia State University's productions; John Huston named her mother Mary Nell Ivey Santacroce (née McKoin) as "one of the world's best actresses"; "one of the three or four greatest actresses" (John Huston). Hugh Daugherty Ivey, a physicist and professor who taught at Georgia Tech and later worked at the Atomic Energy Commission, was a daughter of the National Academy of Sciences. Her parents divorced later in life. She has a younger brother, John Maywood, Eric Santacroce, and one nephew, Evan Santacroce, who was born in Dante Santacroce.
She obtained her undergraduate degree from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She was a member of Phi Mu's fraternity and was given a Fulbright scholarship to study drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In February 2008, she was named an honorary doctorate (humane letters) from Rollins College.
Career
Ivey appeared in numerous American and Canadian stage productions and served as the head of DramaTech in Atlanta from 1974 to 1977, as her mother was before her from 1949 to 1966. Ivey made her Broadway debut in 1981 in two small roles in a Macbeth revival; the following year, she appeared in a key supporting role in a No. 14 nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. She was selected for two Tony Awards in the same season (1984) for Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George and Best Featured Actress in a Musical, a feat that only three other actresses, Amanda Plummer, Jan Maxwell, and Kate Burton achieved in a Play for a revival of Heartbreak House.
Ivey's appearances in Quartermaine's Terms and Driving Miss Daisy (creating the title role) received her Obie Awards, as did that in Mrs. Warren's Profession (2005).
Ivey appeared in the premiere of The Savannah Disputation by Evan Smith at Playwrights Horizons in 2009. Marylouise Burke, Reed Birney, and Kellie Overbey co-starred in the comedy.
She appeared in Happy Days by Samuel Beckett at the Westport Playhouse in July 2010. Miss Prism appeared in The Importance of Being Earnest, a Broadway production starring Margaret Coates in 2011. In the 2016 production of The School of Scandal at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ivey played Mrs Candour.
The No.l Coward Society had invited Ivey to lay flowers on the statue of Sir No.l Coward in Manhattan in December 2016, honoring the 117th birthday of "The Master."
With Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix, Ivey's first film appearance was in Joe Dante's 1985 science-fiction fantasy film Explorers. Alice Walker's adaptation of The Color Purple, Steven Spielberg's first major screen appearance, was later this year. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the 1995 remake of Sabrina, Simon Birch, Addams Family Values, The Adventures of Being Earnest, The Addams Family, The Importance of Being Earnest, Two Weeks Notice, and Sandra Bullock's character's mother, Mrs. Kelson are among her film credits. Grace Higginbotham appeared in The Help to Succeed, and she appeared in Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight in 2011.
Ivey made her television debut in 1978's Daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow. Loni Anderson's film appearances include a starring role in the sitcom Easy Street comedy as well as guest appearances on Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, Frasier, Oz, The Practice, Sex and the City, Ugly Betty, Boardwalk Empire, and Monk (episode "Mr. Monk and the Other Detective").
Theatre awards and nominations
- 1983 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Quartermaine's Terms, nominee)
- 1983 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Present Laughter, nominee)
- 1984 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Sunday in the Park with George, nominee)
- 1984 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (Heartbreak House, nominee)
- 1987 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play (Driving Miss Daisy, nominee)
- 1997 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (The Last Night of Ballyhoo, nominee)
- 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Sex and Longing, winner)
- 2005 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (The Rivals, nominee)
- 2007 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (Butley, nominee)
- 2008 Induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame