Zoe Caldwell

Infobox actor
name = Zoe Caldwell

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birthname = Ada Caldwell
birthdate = birth date and age|1933|9|14
location = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
spouse = Robert Whitehead (1968-2002)
tonyawards = Best Leading Actress in a Play
1968 "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
1982 "Medea"
1996 "Master Class"
Best Featured Actress in a Play
1968 "Slapstick Tragedy"

Ada "Zoe" Caldwell, OBE (born September 14 1933) is an Australian-born actress.

Life

She was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and lived in the suburb of Balwyn on Yongala Street. Her father was a plumber and her mother was a taxi dancer. [Nightingale, Benedict. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E2D8173FF932A15753C1A9679C8B63 Her Infinite Variety] , New York Times, October 21, 2001. Accessed May 27, 2008.]

Zoe had a Peugeot of 1950 vintage. She would often load some of the neighbourhood kids into it to take them to the Elizabethan Theatre in Richmond where they would go backstage and watch rehearsals and performances. [cite web | publisher=University of Melbourne | title=Zoe Caldwell's honorary degree | url=http://www.unimelb.edu.au/ExecServ/honcausa/citation/caldwell.html | accessdate=2006-11-13] [cite web | publisher=State University of New York | title=New York State Writers Institute on Caldwell | url=http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/caldwell_zoe.html | accessdate=2006-11-13]

Career

She has won four Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway in "Slapstick Tragedy", "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", "Medea" and "Master Class". In the last she portrayed opera diva Maria Callas. In Stratford, Ontario she played the role of Cleopatra in "Antony and Cleopatra".

Other Broadway credits include "The Creation of the World and Other Business" and "Macbeth". She has also appeared on film, most notably as an imperious dowager in Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose of Cairo".

Pesonal life

Zoe Caldwell was married in 1968 to Canadian-born Broadway producer Robert Whitehead, a cousin of actor Hume Cronyn. They had two sons and were married until Whitehead's death in 2002. She has not remarried. The novelist Patrick White dedicated his short story, "Clay" to her and Barry Humphries.

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succession box
title=Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
years=1981-1982
for " Medea"
before=Joan Copeland
for "American Clock"
after=Jessica Tandy
for "Foxfire"succession box
title=Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
years=1995-1996
for "Masterclass"
before=Cherry Jones
for "The Heiress"
after=Janet McTeer
for "A Doll's House"