Anna Deavere Smith | |
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.jpg) Smith in 1999 | |
| Born | September 18, 1950[1] Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Education | Arcadia University (BA) American Conservatory Theater (MFA) |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, playwright, professor |
| Website | Official website Projects website |
Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in The West Wing (2000–06), hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009–15), and as U.S. District Court Clerk Tina Krissman on the ABC show For the People (2018–19).
Smith is a recipient of The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2013). In 2015 she was selected as the Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2016, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Theatre Arts. [2]She is the founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University.[3][4]
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- ^ "Guggenheim Fellowship Awarded to Anna Deavere Smith". tisch.nyu.edu. Retrieved September 19, 2024.
- ^ Schechner, Richard (Fall 2018). "There's a lot of work to do to turn this thing around: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith". TDR/The Drama Review. 62 (3). New York University - Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35–50. doi:10.1162/dram_a_00771. S2CID 57572160.
- ^ "About the IACD". Archived from the original on June 17, 2019. Retrieved August 3, 2018.