Joanne Woodward - Career, Private life, Trivia

Film actress, born in Thomasville, Georgia, USA. After starting on Broadway and in TV dramas, she made her first film, Count Three and Pray, in 1955, later winning an Oscar for The Three Faces of Eve (1957). She starred in two films directed by her husband, Paul Newman - Rachel Rachel (1968, Oscar nomination) and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972, Cannes Best Actress). She received further Oscar nominations for her roles in Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973) and Mr and Mrs Bridge (1990), and won Emmys for See How She Runs (1978) and Do You Remember Love? (1985). Later films include Philadelphia (1993), The Age of Innocence (1993), and Breathing Lessons (1994), and she has also appeared in several productions for television.

Joanne Woodward
Joanne Woodward
Birth name	Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward
Born	February 27, 1930 Thomasville, Georgia, US
Notable roles	Eve in The Three Faces of Eve Dr. Cornelia Wilbur in Sybil
Academy  Awards	Eve in The Three Faces of Eve
Spouse(s)	Paul Newman (1958-present)

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Emmy Award and Academy Award-winning American actress.

Career

Early career

Woodward's first film was a post-Civil War western Count Three and Pray, in 1955.

Films with Paul Newman

She appeared with her husband, Paul Newman in the 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) - a lightweight romantic comedy that she persuaded Newman to make.

She starred in four films that Newman directed but did not star in:

Rachel, Rachel (1968) The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - which also starred their daughter, Nell Potts. The Shadow Box (1980) - a television movie The Glass Menagerie (1987)

Later Career

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

Academy Awards

1991 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Mr. and Mrs. Bridge 1974 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams 1969 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Rachel, Rachel 1958 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Three Faces of Eve

Emmy Awards

She won 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 the same category again for Do You Remember Love? (1985) as a professor who begins to suffer from Alzheimer's disease.

Private life

Woodward married Paul Newman on January 29, 1958.

Preceded by: Ingrid Bergman for Anastasia

Academy Award for Best Actress 1957 for The Three Faces of Eve

Succeeded by: Susan Hayward for I Want to Live!

Trivia

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.