Welling was born in Putnam Valley, New York. His family moved frequently, making stops in Wisconsin, Delaware, and Michigan. Welling attended Okemos High School in Okemos, Michigan, where he started acting in plays, but then switched to sports. Welling played baseball and soccer, but his favorite sport is basketball. Welling is one of four children, with two older sisters, Rebecca and Jamie, and a younger brother, Mark Welling, who is also an actor.
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Tom Welling | Early life
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when does clark meet lois lane in smallville
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Season 4
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who played the above mentioned characters?
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Tom Welling and Erica Durance, respectively.
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what features were given to the second mentioned character, when designing the character?
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She has "sophisticated, worldly experience", considered to be more of an adult than the rest of the cast, has a lot of "nervous energy" from trying to "find herself".
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who directed this series?
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how did the first mentioned actor, debut in the entertainment industry?
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Modeling for a Tommy Hilfiger campaign.
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can you name any other series that he has worked in?
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"Judging Amy", "Special Unit 2", "Undeclared".
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can you also mention his directorial works?
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"Smallville" episodes "Fragile"; "Hydro", "Apocalypse" to name a few.
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what was the role of the character we were discussing earlier?
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She comes to Smallville investigating the death of her cousin Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack).
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where is the second mentioned actor from?
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Putnam Valley, New York
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did she receive any awards for her work?
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Welling was born in Putnam Valley, New York. His family moved frequently, making stops in Wisconsin, Delaware, and Michigan. Welling attended Okemos High School in Okemos, Michigan, where he started acting in plays, but then switched to sports. Welling played baseball and soccer, but his favorite sport is basketball. Welling is one of four children, with two older sisters, Rebecca and Jamie, and a younger brother, Mark Welling, who is also an actor.
Tom Welling | Early life
The following is a List of awards and nominations received by Tom Welling throughout his acting career.
List of awards and nominations received by Tom Welling | Introduction
Tompkins was born in New York. She was the daughter of Florence Aiken. She began acting in stock theater immediately after she finished high school. According to the Social Security Death Index, Tompkins, listed as Joan Swenson at death, was living in New York when she procured her Social Security number, probably in the late 1930s. Tompkins was discovered by actress June Walker, who said, "She has the finest diction of any young actress I've heard in years."
Joan Tompkins | Early years
She then entered the graduate program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts to continue her acting studies but left after her second year. While attempting to break into acting, she supported herself by working as a nanny for a Manhattan-based family.
Taylor Schilling | Early life and education
Overton grew up in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, where she graduated with their highest honor, The Charles Jehlinger Award.
Kelly Overton | Early life
Gambatese was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Richmond Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. Her passion for acting began during the summer of fourth grade at the Willoughby Fine Arts Center where she attended theater classes. Her first performance was "playing a ‘whitewasher’" in the story of Tom Sawyer. She continued taking acting classes, and in her senior year of high school attended Beck Center as well as Cleveland State University. In 1993 she moved to Manhattan, where she enrolled in NYU's Tisch School of the Arts drama department. She graduated in 1997 with a double major in sociology and drama and received an "Artist & Scholar" award.
Jennifer Gambatese | Early life
Pearce was posthumously awarded an Emmy Award for this role. Her husband accepted the award on her behalf.
Alice Pearce | Early life and career
He created a second career as a character actor, appearing in several films and television shows, including "Throw Momma from the Train", "Hoffa", and "Frasier". She studied drama at Hunter College in New York, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968.
Rhea Perlman | Early life and family
He continued on to Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, where he earned a double first in Classics. During his second term at Cambridge, he was seen in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" by talent agent Lorraine Hamilton of Hamilton Hodell. He proceeded to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 2005.
Tom Hiddleston | Early life
Born in New York City, Collyer chose to use her mother's maiden name when she decided to pursue acting. Her father was Clayton Heermance, an attorney in New York.
June Collyer | Early life
York graduated from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Tom York (actor) | Early life and education
The following is a List of awards and nominations received by Thomas Jane throughout his acting career.
List of awards and nominations received by Thomas Jane | Introduction
For her work with the theater she was awarded a 2002 National Humanities Medal.
Frankie Hewitt | Early life and career
She was also given the Susan Steinfeld Award for her excellence in the theatre program.
Maria Manuela Goyanes | Early life
His wife, Louisa Manders, suffered several accidents during her long career as an actress, including a fall from the flies at Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1834. Later she was famous for playing older women. Thomas Manders is buried with his wife in the Actors' Acre in Brookwood Cemetery.
Thomas Manders | Later life
She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, a Golden Globe for Best Actress, and won a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer, which she shared with Jayne Mansfield and Natalie Wood. The performance also earned her a Film Achievement Award from "Look", as well as the title "Woman of the Year" in 1957 from Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Club. She appeared on the cover of "Life Magazine" in June 1956.
Carroll Baker | 1952–1957: Early work and critical success
Eyen was born in Cambridge, Ohio, the youngest of seven children. His parents, Abraham and Julia Eyen, owned and ran a family restaurant. He attended The Ohio State University but left before graduating. Eyen moved to New York City in 1960 to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Tom Eyen | Early life and education
Martha Boesing (née Gross) was born in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1936 and graduated from Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. She had her first experience making theater at sixteen, as an apprentice for a local summer stock company. Boesing graduated from Connecticut College for Women in 1957, and received an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin in 1958. She married Paul Boesing, with whom she has three children; they divorced in 1980.
Martha Boesing | Early life and education
Tompkins went on to work on the Manhattan Project. After graduating from Denison High School, Reed planned to become a teacher but was unable to pay for college. She decided to move to California to attend Los Angeles City College on the advice of her aunt. While attending college, she performed in various stage productions, although she had no plans to become an actress. After receiving several offers to screen test for studios, Reed eventually signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; however, she insisted on finishing her education first. She completed her associate degree, then signed with an agent.
Donna Reed | Early life
Tomlin has received numerous awards, including: four primetime Emmys; a special 1977 Tony when she was appearing in her one-woman Broadway show, "Appearing Nitely"; a second Tony as Best Actress, two Drama Desk Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her one-woman performance in Jane Wagner's "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"; a CableACE Award for executive producing the film adaptation of "The Search"; a Grammy Award for her comedy album, "This is a Recording" (a collection of Ernestine the Telephone Operator routines) as well as nominations for her subsequent albums "Modern Scream", "And That's the Truth", and "On Stage"; and two Peabody Awards — the first for the ABC television special, "Edith Ann's Christmas: Just Say Noël" and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film, "The Celluloid Closet".
Lily Tomlin | Awards
Holzman was born in Manhattan but grew up in Roslyn Heights, New York on Long Island in a Jewish family. Although she was shy, she wanted to become an actor. At 13, she attended the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York.
Winnie Holzman | Early life
Instead, she moved quickly into acting. In 1940, she won the National Collegiate Players Award for her portrayal of Lillom in "The Typewriter". The award included a chance to train in White Plains, New York with Madam Tamara Daykarhanova and Michael Chekhov who gave her a scholarship to continue study in the fall.
Kathryn Eames | Early life
Miles was born and raised in Greenwich Village, New York City. She was the second daughter of Belle (née Feldman) and Reuben Scheinwald, a furniture maker. She was educated at Washington Irving High School and the Actors Studio.
Sylvia Miles | Early life
Betty Julia Hymans was born in Brondesbury, Willesden, Middlesex, the daughter of Herbert Hyams and Estella Oppenheimer Hyams.
Betty Astell | Early life
Skäringer wanted to be an actress from the age of four and became active at her local theater in Kristinehamn. Skäringer describes herself as a "small girl, quite heavy and a tom-boy" when she was younger. She related in interviews that she suffered from an eating disorder from the eighth grade until her last year in college.
Mia Skäringer | Early life
She'd come out at intermissions and tell him, 'She's doing very well.'" Owing to her father's employment in the Foreign Service, Turner grew up abroad, in Canada, Cuba, Venezuela and London, England. She attended high school at The American School in London, graduating in 1972. "The start of real acting for me began during high school in London," she stated in her 2008 memoir. "There were seven of us who were sort of a theater mafia. We produced, directed, acted, chose the plays, got one teacher fired and another one hired." Her father died of a coronary thrombosis one week before her graduation, and the family returned to Springfield, Missouri.
Kathleen Turner | Early life
Originally a construction worker, Welling was discovered in 1998 at a party in Nantucket by iconic casting director Jennifer Starr who was there finding fresh faces for a Tommy Hilfiger campaign and suggested he try modeling. Welling modeled for Louisa Modeling Agency until 2000, when he relocated to Los Angeles. There he modeled for Tommy Hilfiger, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Calvin Klein while pursuing an acting career. In 2000, Welling appeared in Angela Via's music video "Picture Perfect" where he played Vía's love interest. Welling has said that he did not like modeling and that he was not good at it because it was all on the outside or from an external point of view.
Tom Welling | Early career
Patricia Charbonneau was born in Valley Stream, New York on Long Island, the youngest of 10 children. Her father, a retired businessman, is French; her mother is Austrian. She graduated in 1977 from Valley Stream Central High School, which she attended with fellow actors Steve Buscemi and Steve Hytner, as well as writer Ed Renehan. She later attended Boston University as a theater major, and left after a month to take a position with the Lexington Conservatory Theatre company in the Catskills. The story of the Conservatory Theater is chronicled in the documentary "The Loss of Nameless Things".
Patricia Charbonneau | Early life
She was educated at Bedales School from 1929 to 1934, and was head girl, followed in 1935 by Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was "the most celebrated actress of her day".
Teresa Rothschild | Early life
Born in the city of New York, Malvina was the daughter of Julia Langfelder and the sister of Lilyan Cohen. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and was a member of the senior class of 1908–1909.
Malvina Longfellow | Early life
She is the recipient of the inaugural Joseph Kesselring Prize. Her theatre company Food For Thought Productions was the recipient of the National Arts Club Gold Medal of Honor for Achievement in the Dramatic Arts.
Susan Charlotte | Awards
Putnam also received honorary degrees from Boston College (1949), Saint Anselm College (1952), and the University of Massachusetts Lowell (1970).
Roger Putnam | Later life
Maryedith Burrell was born Maryedith Ann Smith and raised in Gilroy, California. After attending Santa Catalina School on scholarship, she headed to UC Santa Cruz, working and studying simultaneously with American Conservatory Theater and The San Francisco Mime Troupe. While attending college, Burrell workshopped with The Royal Shakespeare Company and director Peter Brook, as well as Teatro Campensino with Louis Valdez. After two terms at UCSC, she transferred to UC Los Angeles and as a student in its Theatre Arts Program received the Hugh O'Brian acting award. The acting award judges included Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon, who became an early mentor.
Maryedith Burrell | Early life
Hatten was born in Jamestown, North Dakota. He served in the United States Navy during World War II and used the GI Bill to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. He graduated cum laude in 1950.
Tom Hatten | Early life
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Nicholle Tom | Young Star Awards
Late in life he received Italy's Premio Internazionale di Giornalismo. He also provided the inspiration for longtime friend Seán Ó Faoláin's 1974 short story "Something, Everything, Anything, Nothing".
George Weller | Professional honors
Her third, in 1972, was to Alan Truscott, bridge journalist for "The New York Times". Truscott died in New Russia, New York, of complications from Parkinson's disease.
Dorothy Hayden Truscott | Early and later life
She received free acting lessons in return for taking photographs of a cultural arts center, and she studied acting at Circle in the Square Theatre School, Axis Theater Company, and The Willow Cabin Theatre Company.
Sarah Clarke | Early life
She continued to win prizes, including an honorary MA from Tufts University, and show work until her death.
Marie Danforth Page | Introduction
The daughter of a prominent businessman in Boston, Worthing was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. As a teenager, she received a prize for having the most perfect hands and arms in Louisville, Kentucky. Two years after that recognition, judges unanimously selected her as "the most beautiful woman in America" in a contest that had 10,000 entrants.
Helen Lee Worthing | Early years
Memorable early portraits include astronaut Buzz Aldrin and actresses Hilary Swank and Julie Newmar. Atwood and his work have won many awards: in 2009 he was named Photographer of the Year at the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, earning first place in the portraiture category.
Tom Atwood | Early life
He began using the name "Nigel Kneale" for these professional credits, but continued to be known as "Tom" to his family and friends up until his death. After graduating from RADA, Kneale worked for a short time as a professional actor performing in small rôles at the Stratford Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. He continued to write in his spare time and in 1949 a collection of his work, entitled "Tomato Cain and Other Stories", was published. The book sufficiently impressed the writer Elizabeth Bowen that she wrote a foreword for it, and in 1950 the collection won the Somerset Maugham Award.
Nigel Kneale | Early life and career
His fourth wife, film producer Elizabeth W. Alexander, died of breast cancer in 2012.
Titus Welliver | Early life
The next year, she received the Joe Doupe Young Investigator Award.
Susan Quaggin | Early life and education
Tomasin was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, Northern England, in 1938 to working class parents. She knew from an early age she wanted to be an actress, although her parents did not support her goal.
Jenny Tomasin | Early life
She won two Best Actress Obie Awards, one for her role as "Catherine Holly" (the first actress to play the role which was later essayed by Elizabeth Taylor in the film version) in Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1958) and another for the title role in Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" (1961).
Anne Meacham | New York stage
Tom Harper was born in 1977. He attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England.
Tom Harper (actor) | Early life and education
Theatre critic and "Photoplay" editor Julian Johnson was her companion for a decade, and was influential in the creation of her public persona. Many erroneously believed them to be married. Her 1933 obituaries mention Johnson as her second husband, and millionaire George E. Townley as a third husband. Lacking any verification that the latter two marriages took place, Moynahan is now believed to have been her only husband.
Texas Guinan | Personal life and early career
Elizabeth Ann Wedgeworth was born in Abilene, Texas. She graduated from Highland Park High School in University Park, Texas, where she was a childhood friend and high school classmate of Jayne Mansfield. She dropped her first name after graduating from the University of Texas in 1957, and moved to New York City. After auditioning several times, she was admitted to The Actors Studio.
Ann Wedgeworth | Early life
Williams first began her acting education in New York, earning a B.A. in Theatre Performance from Fordham University and later studying Shakespeare at Oxford University and at the British American Drama Academy in London.
Virginia Williams | Early life
He gained a MPhil degree from King's College, Cambridge, in 1991.
Tom Shakespeare | Early life
Lily Tomlin was awarded the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress.
List of accolades received by Nashville | Introduction
During her senior year, Lohman was an awardee of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She was offered a full scholarship to attend New York University but declined, opting instead to directly pursue an acting career.
Alison Lohman | Early life
Wells was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. After attending Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, Wells moved to New York City, where she starred in six indie films over a two-year span, one of which, "Man About Town", won Best Short Film at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. After moving to Los Angeles, Wells became a stand-up comic and wrote her first feature script, "A Little Bit of Heaven".
Gren Wells | Early life
He pursued acting because he wanted to express a range of emotions, but Welling still models occasionally and appeared in the May 2008 issue of "Vogue", the so-called "Superhero Issue". In his first major acting role, Welling played karate teacher Rob "Karate Rob" Meltzer, a younger love interest of Amy Gray (Amy Brenneman) in the second season of the CBS legal drama "Judging Amy", which aired in 2001. Welling was originally signed for three episodes; after receiving enthusiastic fan reviews, the producers kept him for three more. Welling also had a small role in the UPN science fiction sitcom "Special Unit 2", and he appeared in the pilot episode of the FOX sitcom "Undeclared".
Tom Welling | Early career
In 1964, Waring married Dorothy Tutin, the couple had two children, Amanda and Nick, both of whom later became actors.
Derek Waring | Early life
She studied acting at HB Studio under Uta Hagen. She received a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in April 2005.
Dina Merrill | Early life
Before becoming an actress, she worked as an editor and did motion graphics.
Noël Wells | Early life
Tierney's autobiography, "Self-Portrait", in which she candidly discusses her life, career, and mental illness, was published in 1979. In 1986, Tierney was honored alongside actor Gregory Peck with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain. Tierney has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard.
Gene Tierney | Later years
Mankiewicz was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1942. His parents were Austrian-born actress Rose Stradner and the celebrated screenwriter/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, son of German-Jewish immigrants. In 1950, his father, after winning four Oscars in two years for the screenplays and direction of "A Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve", decided to move his family back to New York City, where he had been raised. Mankiewicz was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy (1955–1959) and Yale College (1959–1963). He majored in drama at Yale, completing the first two years of the Yale Drama School while still an undergraduate.
Tom Mankiewicz | Early life and career
And so I got my theatre degree from the University of Alabama." After graduating from the University of Alabama in 2007 with a degree in theatre, she relocated to New York City where she and her husband, Kenric, lived for five years before moving to California.
Sonequa Martin-Green | Early life
Weller was born in New York City, and has lived in Nevada, Massachusetts, London and New York. He attended Stockbridge School and studied music composition at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. In the late 1960s at Manchester University, he studied playwriting with Stephen Joseph ( the child of actress Hermione Gingold and the publisher Michael Joseph) and received a Diploma in Drama. He then moved to London to write plays.
Michael Weller | Early life and studies
While a student, she won the Irene Ryan Award at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., an award annually presented to the nation's top collegiate actor.
Mireille Enos | Early life
Susan Silo was born in New York City, New York. Both her parents are actors.
Susan Silo | Early life
Ivy Naistadt was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. She graduated from Ithaca College with a B.F.A. in Acting.
Ivy Naistadt | Early life
Nancy Reiner graduated in 1960 from Fieldston School in New York City, where she was known for her artistic talent. She later attended Brandeis University.
Nancy Reiner | Early life
Thirlby was born in New York City, to an advertising executive mother and a contractor father. She was raised in Manhattan's East Village, attending school at Friends Seminary in the city's Gramercy neighborhood, where she graduated in a class of 57 students. She also attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in upstate New York, and Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (the Long Island summer arts camp also attended by Natalie Portman and Mariah Carey). She took classes at the American Globe Theatre, and briefly at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where she completed a stage combat course with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat (BASSC).
Olivia Thirlby | Early life
At RADA, where her classmates included Peter O’Toole, Albert Finney and future The Beatles manager Brian Epstein, she won the Ronson award for most promising student before graduating in 1958.
Susannah York | Early life
Menke was born in Mineola, New York, the daughter of Charlotte, a teacher, and Dr. Warren Wells Menke, a professor of management at Clemson University. Menke graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Film Program. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film in 1977.
Sally Menke | Early life
Born in Wareham, Massachusetts in 1847, Wellman was the son of a Nashua Iron Company superintendent. Wellman received his formal engineering training from Norwich University in Norwich, Vermont, and served as a corporal with the First New Hampshire Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. Shortly after the war, Wellman married Julia A. Ballard, with whom he had five children.
Samuel T. Wellman | Early life
Long was born on 3 August 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, as his Australian parents were visiting there at the time. On their return to Australia he grew up on a farm near Benalla, Victoria. He worked as a jackaroo and shearer after attending Geelong Grammar School, before going abroad, travelling to India, the United Kingdom, Los Angeles, and South Carolina. After returning to Australia, Long successfully auditioned for a place at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1994.
Tom Long (actor) | Early life
She then continued to study secretarial skills at Pitman's College, Brixton Hill. In 1944, Whitfield graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with a diploma.
June Whitfield | Early life
The following is a list of awards and nominations received by actress Susan Sarandon.
List of awards and nominations received by Susan Sarandon | Introduction
Ryan was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received an honors BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at The Atlantic Theatre Company's Acting School.
Marja-Lewis Ryan | Early life
Putnam was born in 1826 in Massachusetts to a Unitarian physician, who died while Caroline was a small child, and his wife Eliza (Carpenter) Putnam. Of her father's first name, her middle name, or the town of her birth, nothing is known. Eliza Putnam's second marriage to Levi Peet moved the family to southwestern New York.
Caroline F. Putnam | Early life
Nelstrop was born in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. He gained a B.A. degree in Actor Musicianship from Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance in 2002.
Thomas Nelstrop | Early life
Holmer (née Farrell) was born in Pawling, New York. She was raised by her mother, an art teacher, and her father, a piano tuner. She attended New York University where she studied cinematography.
Anna Rose Holmer | Early life
Tom Askwith was born in Cheam, Surrey. He was educated at Haileybury and matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1929, where he read Engineering. His father worked in insurance, but was killed at Ypres in 1917.
Tom Askwith | Early life
He has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Theater Communications Group, the Sloan Foundation, PEN American and the residencies MacDowell, Millay, Albee, and Berilla Kerr Foundations. His theater work has been profiled by "The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice" and others and he has written essays about theater for" The New York Times" and "American Theater Magazine".
Tom Donaghy | Recognition
She replied "Right in front of where the old Warner Brothers Theater was, at Hollywood and Wilcox", which is where it was placed, at 6439 Hollywood Blvd. After graduating from Hollywood High School in 1951, she received an anonymous envelope containing $50 for one year's tuition at UCLA, where she initially planned on studying journalism. During her first year of college, she switched her focus to theatre arts and English, with the goal of becoming a playwright. She found she had to take an acting course to enter the playwright program; "I wasn't really ready to do the acting thing, but I had no choice." She followed a sudden impulse in her first performance; "Don't ask me why, but when we were in front of the audience, I suddenly decided I was going to stretch out all my words and my first line came out 'I'm baaaaaaaack!'" The audience response moved her deeply: During this time, she performed in several university productions, garnering recognition for her comedic and musical abilities.
Carol Burnett | Early life
Ewell was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of Martine (née Yewell) and Samuel William Tompkins. His family expected him to follow in their footsteps as lawyers or whiskey and tobacco dealers, but Ewell decided to pursue acting instead. He began acting in summer stock in 1928 with Don Ameche before moving to New York City in 1931. He enrolled in the Actors Studio. He made his Broadway debut in 1934 and his film debut in 1940, and for several years, he played comic supporting roles. His acting career was interrupted during World War II when he served in the United States Navy.
Tom Ewell | Early life and career
She spent time working in New York City later in her career. One source claims she died in that city; another states that she died in the city of her birth, where she is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery. It has been claimed that her work is held by both the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, but it is unclear if this is still true.
Clementina Tompkins | Introduction
She moved with them to Palisades, New York, giving up acting. A decade later, when Haven was 13, the family moved back to Los Angeles, where he attended Beverly Hills High School. Following graduation, he enrolled at the USC School of Cinema-Television. While at the University of Southern California, he received a George Lucas Award for a student film he directed starring his sister.
James Haven | Early life
Honorary PhD from Webster University, Doctor of Humane Letters, 2011 Inducted into NATAS Silver Circle http://www.nyemmys.org/silver-circle/ CableACE Award winner (1982); Emmy Award nominee (1979, 1980) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1029180/awards?ref_=nm_awd
Mary Alice Dwyer-Dobbin | Awards & Recognition
Gallagher moved to New York to study acting at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of John Houseman. Included in her class were Penny Johnson Jerald, Lorraine Toussaint, Jack Kenny and Jack Stehlin. She then relocated to Los Angeles, California to further pursue her career; during this time she also took on a job taking care of stray cats.
Megan Gallagher | Early life
She spent several semesters studying as an English major and political science minor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, before transferring to New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She has stated that she would have become either an English teacher or psychologist if she were not acting.
Anne Hathaway | Early life
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Tom was born in Hinsdale, Illinois, to Charles and Marie Tom. She has a twin brother, David Tom, best known for his role as Billy Abbott on "The Young and the Restless", and an older sister, Heather Tom, who is best known for her role as Katie Logan on "The Bold and The Beautiful".
Nicholle Tom | Early life
She received a Rockefeller Grant (1984), two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Guggenheim fellowship (1990), and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature (1993). Howe was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D) degree from Whittier College in 1997 and "Honoris causa", Doctor of Letters from Bowdoin College (1998). She received the William Inge Theatre Festival Award in 2005. In 2007 she received the Horton Foote Award, presented at the Baylor University Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival. In 2012, she received the 3rd Annual Lilly Award Lifetime Achievement Award. The Lilly Awards were created to "recognize the extraordinary contributions made by women to the American Theater."
Tina Howe | Awards and honors
Gibney was born September 11, 1961, in Manhattan Beach, California. She moved to Webster, New York, at a young age, returned to California to live several times, returning to Webster in 2004. She graduated from Buffalo State College with a major in theater, and later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama.
Susan Gibney | Early life and education
She received the Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Award. Other awards include The Dramatists Guild's Lanford Wilson Prize, The Lilly Awards' Stacey Mindich Prize, The Greenfield Prize (first female recipient in drama), Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, The Champions of Change Award from the NYC Mayor's Office, ATCA Francesca Primus Prize, The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play, Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical at The Helen Hayes Awards, The Kennedy Center's Jean Kennedy Smith Award, Marin Theatre's David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, New York Theatre Workshop's 2050 Fellowship, Aurora Theatre's Global Age Project Prize, National New Play Network's Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, two Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Prizes, and The Merage Foundation Fellowship for the American Dream.
Martyna Majok | Early life
Manoff was born in New York City to actress, director, and writer Lee Grant, and screenwriter Arnold Manoff. Her half-brother, Tom Manoff, is the classical music critic for NPR's "All Things Considered" and a notable composer. Her stepfather is producer Joseph Feury. She spent her childhood and teenaged years in New York City and Malibu, California. She attended the New Lincoln School and Santa Monica High School and later studied at the Actors Studio.
Dinah Manoff | Early life
Her performance won her the best actress prize in a competition at a local festival. At age 16, Arterton left Gravesend Grammar School to attend acting college at the Miskin Theatre at North West Kent College in Dartford. She later received a full government grant to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), from which she graduated in 2008.
Gemma Arterton | Early life
Van Landuyt was born in Leuven, Belgium. He was in training for actor at the Hoger Instituut voor Dramatische Kunsten (HIDK - Studio Herman Teirlinck) in Antwerp, where he graduated with honors in 1992.
Tom Van Landuyt | Early life
Cottingham was born in Brooklyn, New York City. and grew up in an old farmhouse in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Before settling in West Orange, New Jersey, she lived and worked in New York City, England, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
Cicely Cottingham | Early life and education
In 1983, Dunn won three more honors including the coveted Richard Tucker Award, Chicago's WGN-Illinois Opera Competition and the "Dallas Morning News"' G.B. Dealey Award.
Susan Dunn | Early life and education
He did his national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving from 1955 until 1957. He took up acting around 1956, joining the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Sidcup, where he met his first wife. He went on to become a professional actor in the late 1960s after the marriage broke down.
Tom Baker | Early life
Tompkins was born in 1971 in Leighton Buzzard. Hayley earned a BA in painting and an MFA from The Glasgow School of Art.
Hayley Tompkins | Early life and education
Born Marion Rous in New York, she was the eldest of three daughters of the American pathologist Francis Peyton Rous, winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and his wife, Marion de Kay. She studied at the Dalton School in New York City, and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
Marni Hodgkin | Early life
Pulliam, born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, always wanted to be an actress.
Nicole Pulliam | Early life