Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward

Birthday: 1930-02-27

Place of Birth: Thomasville, Georgia, USA

Biography: 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), ten Golden Globe Award nominations (winning three), four BAFTA Film Award nominations (winning one), and nine Primetime Emmy Award nominations (winning three).

Movies

The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her ...

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The Drowning Pool
The Drowning Pool

Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that ...

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Paris Blues
Paris Blues

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two America...

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They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants

After the death of his wife, wealthy retiree Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in ...

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The Long, Hot Summer
The Long, Hot Summer

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates...

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The Three Faces of Eve
The Three Faces of Eve

A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder....

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The End
The End

Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waitin...

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From the Terrace
From the Terrace

Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his m...

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Winning
Winning

Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapoli...

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Rachel, Rachel
Rachel, Rachel

Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a ...

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A New Kind of Love
A New Kind of Love

A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris....

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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
A Big Hand for the Little Lady

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopar...

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The Fugitive Kind
The Fugitive Kind

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by L...

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WUSA
WUSA

Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New O...

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A Fine Madness
A Fine Madness

A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife....

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Count Three and Pray
Count Three and Pray

A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War....

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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of h...

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A Kiss Before Dying
A Kiss Before Dying

A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters....

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Harry & Son
Harry & Son

Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working ...

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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her t...

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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive i...

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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
The Adventures of Errol Flynn

A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family....

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No Down Payment
No Down Payment

The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become ...

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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive fi...

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Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!

Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Gr...

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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature o...

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Harper Days are Here Again
Harper Days are Here Again

Promotional behind-the-scenes look at 'The Drowning Pool' (1975)....

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Signpost to Murder
Signpost to Murder

An escaped mental patient from an asylum for the criminally insane, reported to be homicidal, hides ...

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The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of th...

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The Stripper
The Stripper

An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a thi...

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Breathing Lessons
Breathing Lessons

A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's...

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Lucky Them
Lucky Them

More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ell...

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Crisis at Central High
Crisis at Central High

The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, A...

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Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs

Two couples find love and comfort in London. A reserved, but lonely aging American female college pr...

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Angel Death
Angel Death

A documentary depicting the dangers of PCP use. Shows how both animals' and humans' behavior is affe...

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The Streets of L.A.
The Streets of L.A.

A woman embarks on a lone pursuit of three teenaged hoods in the Los Angeles barrio after becoming i...

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Do You Remember Love
Do You Remember Love

Barbara Wyatt-Hollis is an English professor who begins to experience the effects of Alzheimer's. Th...

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Blind Spot
Blind Spot

Tragedy befalls Congresswoman Nell Harrington and her family when her son-in-law dies in a car accid...

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See How She Runs
See How She Runs

A middle-aged housewife and mother, after spending a lifetime giving to others, decides to claim a p...

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Strategic Trust: The Making of a Nuclear Free Palau
Strategic Trust: The Making of a Nuclear Free Palau

Actress Joanne Woodward narrates the story of an emerging Republic (Palau Islands) in America's Paci...

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Philadelphia
Philadelphia

Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their un...

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Candida
Candida

Candida is the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian So...

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Come Back, Little Sheba
Come Back, Little Sheba

An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis wh...

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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning w...

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Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman

The world knows Paul Newman as an Academy Award winning actor with a fifty-plus year career as one o...

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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found...

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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, San...

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A Christmas to Remember
A Christmas to Remember

A city-bred grandson moves to his grandparents' farm during the Great Depression and grows up enough...

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Dark Stranger
Dark Stranger

A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out....

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Bitter Storm
Bitter Storm

An embittered scientist secretly invents a receiver which picks up sounds from anytime in the past....

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All the Way Home
All the Way Home

Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. Whe...

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Passions
Passions

A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is...

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The Shadow Box
The Shadow Box

Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with th...

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New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

Star-studded charity New York City premiere of the film Giant....

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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scen...

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All the World
All the World

Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night, this f...

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Women - For America, For the World
Women - For America, For the World

Twenty-two prominent American women discuss their activism for nuclear disarmament and their motivat...

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Gayby
Gayby

Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn sp...

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Keepers of Eden
Keepers of Eden

A documentary presents the story of the Huarani tribe, who have inhabited the rainforests of Ecuador...

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The John Garfield Story
The John Garfield Story

This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he d...

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Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

Veteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand parts, b...

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What She's Doing Up There is Not Accidental
What She's Doing Up There is Not Accidental

A behind-the-scenes look at the production of the 1972 film "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-...

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The Mastery of Motion
The Mastery of Motion

Documentary showcasing the racing skills of Actor Paul Newman, NFL Legend Walter Payton, and Scott S...

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Driven to Excellence
Driven to Excellence

Paul Newman and Mario Andretti explain why they are driven to excellence....

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Mr. Lincoln
Mr. Lincoln

A five-part biographic series about Abraham Lincoln for the educational TV series Omnibus, filmed on...

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James Dean: A Portrait
James Dean: A Portrait

A look at the legacy of icon actor James Dean on the 40th anniversary of his tragic death. The speci...

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Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist
Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist

An Oscars special featuring interviews with a few of the nominees and the writer and director the ye...

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