Dana Ivey

Dana Ivey

Birthday: 1941-08-12

Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Biography: Dana Ivey (born August 12, 1941) is an American actress. She is a five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, and won the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. She originated the title role in Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a Play. Her film appearances include The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), The Addams Family (1991), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Addams Family Values (1993), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Rush Hour 3 (2007), and The Help (2011).

Movies

The Color Purple
The Color Purple

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys t...

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Two Weeks Notice
Two Weeks Notice

Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a dea...

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The Addams Family
The Addams Family

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a c...

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The Kid
The Kid

Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the ...

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Guilty as Sin
Guilty as Sin

Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is...

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Rush Hour 3
Rush Hour 3

After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to r...

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Mumford
Mumford

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same nam...

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Explorers
Explorers

Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comi...

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The Adventures of Huck Finn
The Adventures of Huck Finn

Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an at...

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A Very Serious Person
A Very Serious Person

Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan w...

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We'll Never Have Paris
We'll Never Have Paris

Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals ou...

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The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

Dennis Jennings is an introverted daydreamer, sleepwalking through life. He is a professional waiter...

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The Help
The Help

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children ...

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A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner....

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Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday in the Park with George

The days leading up to the completion of his most famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island ...

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Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in w...

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Orange County
Orange County

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a w...

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A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story

A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to c...

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Sabrina
Sabrina

Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee...

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Class of '61
Class of '61

Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The C...

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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Now a rising young lawyer, Elle Woods is about to make partner at her firm, but when she finds out h...

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Broadway: The Next Generation
Broadway: The Next Generation

A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way....

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The Impostors
The Impostors

Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find the...

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Another Woman
Another Woman

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to wor...

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Simon Birch
Simon Birch

Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his...

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel ...

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The Leisure Seeker
The Leisure Seeker

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion f...

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Professional Cuddler
Professional Cuddler

A​ young Israeli man is about to meet his long-distance lover for the first time-- while pursuing hi...

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Ocean's Eight
Ocean's Eight

Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the c...

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Walking Across Egypt
Walking Across Egypt

An elderly widow befriends an orphaned juvenile delinquent....

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Ghost Town
Ghost Town

Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dea...

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Addams Family Values
Addams Family Values

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy ad...

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Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up ...

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Heartburn
Heartburn

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper column...

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Broken English
Broken English

Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has childr...

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Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Did You Hear About the Morgans?

New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling aro...

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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
William Shakespeare's Hamlet

A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown...

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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the...

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Georgica
Georgica

Georgica, a seemingly bizarre story of a woman who spends the summer stealing the sperm of young, at...

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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast af...

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