Joanne Woodward



Joanne Woodward Gignilliat Trimmier ( Thomasville (Georgia) , February 27th1930 ) is an Americanactress who both an Academy Award, a Golden Globe , an Emmy as Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival won. Woodward is also a television and theatrical producer . She is the widow of Paul Newman, with whom she fifty years - was married - until his death in 2008.



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[ hide ]  *1 Biography  ==Biography [ edit] == Woodward is the daughter of Elinor Gignilliat (born Trimmier) and Wade Woodward, Jr., who at one time vice president of publishing company was Charles Scribner's Sons. [1 ] [2]  Her middle name, "Gignilliat" comes originally off of Huguenots . She was influenced by her mother to become an actress, because her mother was a great film lover. Her mother named her Joan Crawford, thereby southern pronunciation of the name "Joanne" used.
 * 2 Career
 * 3 Films with Paul Newman
 * 4 Filmography
 * 5 Literature
 * 6 References
 * 7 External links

After attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, the nine-year-old Woodward rushed to the stars parade lap and climbed on the star of the film, Laurence Olivier , the husband of Vivien Leigh . Eventually, in 1979, she even worked with Olivier in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba . Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame==Career [ edit] == Woodward's first film was a western after the American Civil War : Count Three and Pray (1955). She continued to travel back and forth between Hollywood and Broadway, as a possible understudy in the New York theater Picnic, which starred Paul Newman. The two married in 1958 after their joint work in the film The Long, Hot Summer . Before that time, Woodward had starred in the film The Three Faces of Eve (1957), for which she is a Academy Award for Best Actress was given. In 1960, Woodward was among the first people who received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . ==Films with Paul Newman [ edit] == She appeared with her ​​husband Paul Newman in ten well-known films:

They both played in the mini-series (TV) Empire Falls, but not in the same scenes.
 * The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
 * Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
 * From the Terrace (1960)
 * Paris Blues (1961)
 * A New Kind of Love (1963)
 * Winning (1969)
 * WUSA (1970)
 * The Drowning Pool (1975)
 * Harry & Son (1984)
 * Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990)

Woodward starred in the following films were directed or produced by Newman but in which he filled a role.

==Filmography [ edit] ==
 * Rachel, Rachel (1968)
 * They Might Be Giants (1971)
 * The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - with a role of their daughter Nell Newman (1972)
 * The Shadow Box (1980) - (television movie)
 * The Glass Menagerie (1987)