Person:Beatrice Straight (1)

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Beatrice Straight
b.2 Aug 1914
d.7 Apr 2001
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  1. Whitney Straight1912 - 1979
  2. Beatrice Straight1914 - 2001
  3. Michael Whitney Straight1916 - 2004
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Name Beatrice Straight
Gender Female
Birth[1] 2 Aug 1914
Marriage to Peter Cookson
Marriage to Ludovici Udeanu
Death[1] 7 Apr 2001
Reference Number? Q232532?


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Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film and television actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was an Academy Award and Tony Award winner as well as an Emmy Award nominee.[1]

Straight made her Broadway debut in The Possessed (1939). Her other Broadway roles included Viola in Twelfth Night (1941), Catherine Sloper in The Heiress (1947) and Lady Macduff in Macbeth (1948). For her role as Elizabeth Proctor in the production of The Crucible (1953), she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. For the satirical film Network (1976), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her performance is the shortest ever to win an Academy Award for acting, at five minutes and two seconds of screen time. She also received an Emmy Award nomination for the miniseries The Dain Curse (1978). Straight also appeared as Mother Christophe in The Nun's Story (1959) and Dr. Martha Lesh in Poltergeist (1982).

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beatrice Straight, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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