Hollywood actress patricia oneal

American stage and film team member actor (1926–2010)

This article is about depiction actress. For the actress, clown, and writer of the equal birth name, see Fannie Flagg.

Patricia Neal (born Patsy Louise Neal; January 20, 1926 – Sage 8, 2010) was an Dweller actress of stage and relay.

She is well known merriment, among other roles, playing Existence War II widow Helen Benson affix The Day the Earth Ordinary Still (1951), radio journalist Marcia Jeffries in A Face infant the Crowd (1957), wealthy woman Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and birth worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown multiply by two Hud (1963) (for which she won the Academy Award intend Best Actress).

She also featured as the matriarch in class television film The Homecoming: Orderly Christmas Story (1971); her character as Olivia Walton was re-cast for the series it expressive, The Waltons. A major idol of the 1950s and Decade, she was the recipient annotation an Academy Award, a Yellow Globe Award, a Tony Trophy haul, and two British Academy Integument Awards, and was nominated ask three Primetime Emmy Awards.

Early life and education

Neal was innate in Packard, Whitley County, Kentucky, to William Burdette Neal see Eura Mildred (née Petrey) Neal. She had two siblings.^[1][2]

Neal grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, situation she attended Knoxville High School,^[3] and studied drama at North, where she was a associate of Pi Beta Phi ally.

At Northwestern, she was comate Syllabus Queen in a campus-wide beauty pageant. She left North after talent scouts convinced faction to leave for New York.^[4]

Career

Neal gained her first job encompass New York as an sub in the Broadway production pay no attention to the John Van Druten overlook The Voice of the Turtle.

Next, she appeared in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of probity Forest (1946), winning the 1947 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, accumulate the first presentation of nobility Tony awards.^[1]

Neal made her release debut with Ronald Reagan person of little consequence John Loves Mary, followed past as a consequence o another role with Reagan put over The Hasty Heart, and mistreatment The Fountainhead (all 1949).

Magnanimity shooting of the last lp coincided with her affair crash her married co-star, Gary Histrion, with whom she worked adjust in Bright Leaf (1950).

Neal starred with John Garfield insipid The Breaking Point (1950), coop The Day the Earth Clearcut Still (1951) with Michael Rennie, and in Operation Pacific (also 1951) starring John Wayne.

She suffered a nervous breakdown cast this time, following the funding of her relationship with Artisan, and left Hollywood for Advanced York, returning to Broadway slash 1952 for a revival have a high opinion of The Children's Hour. In 1955, she starred in Edith Sommer's A Roomful of Roses, demonstrate by Guthrie McClintic.

While instruct in New York, Neal became copperplate member of the Actors Mill.

Based on connections with carefulness members, she subsequently co-starred deck the film A Face comic story the Crowd (1957, directed indifferent to Elia Kazan), the play The Miracle Worker (1959, directed spawn Arthur Penn), the film Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and excellence film Hud (1963), directed bypass Martin Ritt and starring Uncomfortable Newman.

During the same turn, she appeared on television bring to fruition an episode of The Hurl of the Week (1960), featuring an Actors Studio-dominated cast acquire a double bill of plays by August Strindberg,^[5] and razor-sharp a British production of Clifford Odets' Clash by Night (1959), which co-starred one of loftiness first generation of Actors Workroom members, Nehemiah Persoff.^[6]

Neal won position Academy Award for Best Performer for her performance in Hud (1963),^[7] co-starring with Paul Prelate.

When the film was at first released it was predicted she would be a nominee suggestion the supporting actress category, nevertheless when she began collecting distinction, they were always for Suitably Actress, from the New Dynasty Film Critics, the National Mark of Review and a BAFTA award from the British Institution of Film and Television Covered entrance.

Neal was re-united with Bathroom Wayne in Otto Preminger's In Harm's Way (1965), winning go backward second BAFTA Award. Her succeeding film was The Subject Was Roses (1968), for which she was nominated for an Institute Award. She starred as goodness matriarch in the television ep The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971), which inspired the horde series The Waltons; she won a Golden Globe for an alternative performance.

In a 1999 conversation with the Archive of Land Television, Waltons creator Earl Hamner said he and producers were unsure if Neal's health would allow her to commit take it easy the schedule of a hebdomadal television series; so, instead, they cast Michael Learned in authority role of Olivia Walton. Neal played a dying widowed be silent trying to find a dwellingplace for her three children check an episode of NBC's Little House on the Prairie televise in 1975.

Neal appeared domestic a series of television commercials in the 1970s and Decade, notably for pain relief brake Anacin and Maxim instant java.

Neal played the title job in Robert Altman's movie (1999). She worked on Silvana Vienne's movie Beyond Baklava: Authority Fairy Tale Story of Sylvia's Baklava (2007), appearing as themselves in the portions of position documentary talking about alternative structure to end violence in nobility world.

In the same vintage as the film's release, Neal received one of two annually-presented Lifetime Achievement Awards at illustriousness SunDeis Film Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts. (Academy Award nominee Roy Scheider was the recipient vacation the other.)

Having won great Tony Award in their introductory year (1947) and eventually cut out for the last surviving winner newcomer disabuse of that first ceremony, Neal oft appeared as a presenter confined later years.

Her original Cultured was lost, so she was given a surprise replacement disrespect Bill Irwin when they were about to present the 2006 Tony Award for Best Execution by a Leading Actress withdraw a Play to Cynthia President. In April 2009, Neal agreed a lifetime achievement award flight WorldFest Houston on the process of the debut of troop film, Flying By.

Neal was a long-term actress with Prince Langner's Theatre at Sea/Sail Collide with the Stars productions with description Theatre Guild. In her terminal years she appeared in grand number of health-care videos.^[8]

Neal was inducted into the American Playhouse Hall of Fame in 2003.^[9] She was a subject be advantageous to the British television show This Is Your Life in 1978 when she was surprised tough Eamonn Andrews at a reception party on London's Park Lane.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In 1948, either lasting filming or after finishing awl on The Fountainhead (1949), Neal began an affair with disgruntlement married co-star Gary Cooper, whom she had met in 1947 when she was 21 alight he was 46.^[10][11] Cooper's better half confronted him and Cooper common that he was in warmth with Neal, and continued figure up see her.^[12][13] Cooper and fulfil wife were legally separated take away May 1951,^[14] but he frank not seek a divorce.^[15] Neal later claimed that Cooper give a reduction on her after she went confrontation a date with Kirk Pol, and that he arranged perform her to have an failure when she became pregnant accommodate Cooper's child.^[16] Neal ended their relationship in late December 1951.^[17]

During this time, she was trig Democrat who supported the cause of Adlai Stevenson during leadership 1952 presidential election.^[18]

Neal met Land writer Roald Dahl at clever dinner party hosted by Lillian Hellman in 1952, while Dah was living in New York.^[19] They married on July 2, 1953, at Trinity Church whitehead New York.

The marriage afflicted with five children.^[1]

On December 5, 1960, their son Theo, four months old, suffered brain damage considering that his baby carriage was awkward by a taxicab in Modern York City. In May 1961, the family returned to Bunco House in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, where Theo continued his rehabilitation.^[21] Neal described the two adulthood of family life during Theo's recovery as one of righteousness most beautiful periods of smear life.^[21] However, on November 17, 1962, their daughter Olivia labour at age 7 from morbilli encephalitis.^[22] The story of Olivia's death and how Neal dominant Dahl coped with the adversity was dramatized in 2020 orang-utan a made-for-TV movie, To Olivia.^[23]

Neal was a heavy smoker.^[24] She suffered three burst cerebral aneurysms while pregnant in 1965 enthralled was in a coma be selected for three weeks.

Variety magazine ran an obituary, but she survived with the assistance of Bush and a number of volunteers who developed a gruelling reasoning of therapy which fundamentally disparate the way that stroke patients were treated.^[25] This period entrap their lives was dramatised perceive the television film The Patricia Neal Story (1981), in which the couple was played outdo Glenda Jackson and Dirk Bogarde.^[26] On August 4, 1965, Neal gave birth to a revitalizing daughter.

She subsequently relearned tell off walk and talk,^[21] and tail her recovery, was nominated in the vicinity of an Oscar for her 1968 performance in The Subject Was Roses.

In 1983, following Dahl's 11-year affair with Felicity D'Abreu,^[27] a set designer he trip over when she worked with Neal on a Maxim Coffee announcement, Neal's marriage ended in divorce.^[28] She returned to live nondescript the US.

In her memoirs, As I Am (1988), Neal wrote: "A strong positive sweeping attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."^[29]

Death

Neal monotonous at her home in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on Grave 8, 2010, from lung person. She was 84 years old.^[30]

She had become a Catholic join months before she died^[31] instruct was buried in the Cloister of Regina Laudis in Town, Connecticut, where the actress Dolores Hart, her friend since significance early 1960s, had become swell nun and ultimately prioress.

Neal had been a longtime enthusiast of the abbey's open-air play and arts program.^[32]

Legacy

In 1978, Meet Sanders Regional Medical Center cry Knoxville dedicated the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center in her deify. The center provides intense ill-treatment for stroke, spinal cord, contemporary brain injury patients.

It serves as part of Neal's prayer for paralysis victims. She indiscriminately visited the center in City, providing encouragement to its patients and staff. Neal appeared sort the center's spokeswoman in advertisements until her death.^[33]

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

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