Joanne Woodward

Also known as Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward

American actress (born 1930)

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Joanne Woodward is an American actress born in 1930 who had a long career in film and television. She is notable for her acclaimed performances and is also known as the wife of actor Paul Newman.

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Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her performance 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. In a career spanning over six decades, she received four Oscar nominations (winning one),…

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The Last Movie Stars — Self (archive footage)2022
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman — Self2015
Lucky Them — Doris (voice)2013
Gayby — Jenn's Mother (voice) (uncredited)2012
All the World — Narrator2011
Keepers of Eden — Narrator2007
The Adventures of Errol Flynn — Self - Actress

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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. 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. Until his death in 2008, she was married for fifty years 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.