Biographies: Maureen Stapleton - Actor

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An American actress of Irish origin, born in New York, the United States. She worked in fashion shows, and because of her great admiration for the actor Joel McKeira, she decided to become an actress. She performed her first show on Broadway in New York in 1946 under the title The Playboy of... The Western World, and in the same year she starred in the play Antony and Cleopatra instead of the actress Anna Magnani, who was rejected due to her lack of proficiency in the English accent. In 1951, she won a Tony Award for her role in the play The Rose Tattoo by the writer Tennessee Williams, and she won for the second time for her role in the play The Gingerbread Lady in 1971. In 1958, she starred in the movie All the King's Men, for which she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She also participated in the movie Bye Bye Birdie (1963). She was married twice, the first to Max Allentuck in 1949, and they had two children before they separated in 1959. She then got married again to David Reville in 1963, and separated from him in 1966. She died in Lenox, Massachusetts, in the United States.

• 19 December 2023
• farah ashraf