Frances Sternhagen
Frances Sternhagen was born in Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States on January 13th, 1930 and is the Stage Actress. At the age of 94, Frances Sternhagen biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Hussey Sternhagen (born January 13, 1930) is an American actress.
Sternhagen has appeared on and off-Broadway, in films, and on TV since the 1950s.
Early life and education
Sternhagen was born in Washington, D.C., the mother and only child of John M. Sternhagen, a U.S. tax court judge, and Gertrude (née Hussey) Sternhagen.
She was educated at McLean, Virginia, at the Madeira and Potomac schools. She was elected head of Vassar College "after silencing a throng college crowd in a campus dining hall with her interpretation of a scene from Richard II, playing none other than Richard himself." She attended the Catholic University of America as a grad student, where she met Thomas Carlin, her future husband, with whom she was married from 1956 to 1991; the couple had six children. She also studied at the Perry Mansfield School of the Theatre and at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.
Stage career
Sternhagen began teaching acting, singing, and dancing to school students at the Milton Academy in Massachusetts, and she first appeared in 1948 at a Bryn Mawr summer theater in The Glass Menagerie and Angel Streets. Miss T. Muse appeared on Broadway from 1953 to 1954, then appeared in The Skin of Our Teeth, a musical revue. In the same year, she made her off-Broadway debut in the Thieves' Carnival, as well as her TV debut in The Great Bank Robbery on Omnibus (CBS). She had received her first Obie Award for "Distinguished Contribution (Actress)" in The Admirable Bashville (1955–56).
She has received two Tony Awards for her Best Supporting Actress (Dramatic) in 1974 and 1995 for Neil Simon's The Good Doctor's original Broadway performance (which also received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play); and in 1995 for the revival of The Heiress. She has been nominated for Tony Awards five times, including for her appearances in Equus (1975) and On Golden Pond (1979), Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (1978), and Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven, which was based on Thomas Wolfe's Book, The Beginning of Equus (1978), and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (1978), as well as the 2002 revival of Morning's
In 1988's Pulitzer prize-winning drama Driving Miss Daisy, which was created by Dana Ivey at Playwrights Horizons in New York, she portrayed the title character. Sternhagen took over the role after the show was transferred to the John Houseman Theatre and spent more than two years. Two nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Play in 1998 by Eugene O'Neill's Journey Into Night (which starred her own son, Jamie Tyrone) for the Irish Repertory Theatre, and in 2005 for the World War II drama Echoes of the War. She has also received Distinguished Achievement Obie Awards for The Room and A Slight Ache (1964-65). She received the Madge Evans & Sidney Kingsley Award for Excellence in Theater in 1998.
Sternhagen appeared as the Daughter in Edward Albee's All Over Broadway 1971, with Colleen Dewhurst and Jessica Tandy. She appeared in the Broadway production of Steel Magnolias with Marsha Mason, Delta Burke, Christine Ebersole, Lily Rabe, and Rebecca Gayheart in the summer of 2005. She appeared in Edward Albee's Seascape, a 2005 revival of Edward Albee's Seascape, a production of Lincoln Center Theater at the Booth Theater on Broadway.
In 2013, Sternhagen was named the Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement. She is a member of the New Rochelle Walk of Fame.