Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward
Woodward in 1971
Born
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward

(1930-02-27) February 27, 1930 (age 94)
Other names
  • Joanne Newman
  • Joanne G. T. Woodward
Alma materSarah Lawrence College
OccupationActress
Years active1950–2013
Spouse
(m. 1958; died 2008)
Children3, including Nell and Melissa Newman
AwardsFull list

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American retired actress. She made her career breakthrough in the 1950s and earned esteem and respect playing complex women with a characteristic nuance and depth of character.[1] Her accolades include an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She is the oldest living winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Woodward is perhaps best known for her performance as a woman with dissociative identity disorder in The Three Faces of Eve (1957), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She was until his death married to actor Paul Newman, with whom she often collaborated either as a co-star, or as an actor in films directed or produced by him. In 1990, Woodward earned a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College at age 60, graduating alongside her daughter Clea.[2]

  1. ^ "Woodward, Joanne (1930—) Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved September 6, 2021.
  2. ^ Friedap, Joseph P. (May 26, 1990). "COMMENCEMENTS; Sarah Lawrence College". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 22, 2022.