Beatrice Straight
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1914-08-02
- Died
- 2001-04-07
- Works
- 6
Top works
- The innocents
- The innocents
- The innocents
- The innocents
- The innocents
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Film & TV
Acting · Old Westbury, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film, and television actress. Hers remains the shortest acting performance in a film to win an Oscar. In her winning role in the 1976 film Network, she was on screen for five minutes and forty seconds. She also received an Emmy nomination for her role in The Dain Curse.…
Known for
- Deceived — Adrienne's Mother1991
- People Like Us — Maisie Verdurin1990
- Run Till You Fall — Margaret Channing1988
- Power — Claire Hastings1986
- Under Siege — Margaret Sloan1986
- Chiller — Marion Creighton1985
- Robert Kennedy & His Times — Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy1985
- The Princess and the Pea — Queen Veronica / Woman in Museum1984
- Two of a Kind — Ruth1983
- Poltergeist — Dr. Lesh1982
via TMDB
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Circulating microRNAs as stable blood-based markers for cancer detection
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- UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023
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- UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021
· 2020 · cited 5,964x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,394x
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Key facts
- Born
- Beatrice Whitney Straight , ( 1914-08-02 ) August 2, 1914, Old Westbury, New York , U.S.
- Died
- April 7, 2001 (2001-04-07) (aged 86), Northridge, Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- Alma mater
- Cornish School , Actors Studio
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1939–1991
- Spouses
- Louis Dolivet ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1942 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1949 ) Peter Cookson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1949 ; died 1990 )
- Parent s
- Willard Dickerman Straight , Dorothy Payne Whitney
- Relatives
- Whitney W. Straight (brother), Michael W. Straight (brother)
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 2 August 1914
- Died
- 7 April 2001
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Beatrice
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Old Westbury
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Mother
- Dorothy Payne Whitney
- Sibling
- Whitney Straight
- Occupation
- actor
Article
Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film, television and radio actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was both an Academy Award and Tony Award winner, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nominee.
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 a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the miniseries The Dain Curse (1978). Straight also appeared as Mother Christophe in The Nun's Story (1959) and as paranormal investigator Dr. Martha Lesh in Poltergeist (1982).
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1914 births2001 deaths20th-century American actresses20th-century people from California20th-century people from New York (state)Actors Studio alumniActresses from Los AngelesActresses from ManhattanAmerican expatriates in EnglandAmerican film actressesAmerican Shakespearean actressesAmerican stage actresses