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Biography

Early life

Vaccaro was born in Brooklyn, New York to Italian American parents Christine M. Pavia and Mario A. Vaccaro (originally a lawyer), both of whom were pioneers in Italian cuisine.^[1][2][3] She was raised in Texas, where her parents co-founded Mario's Restaurant (a nationally recognized restaurant)^[4] and where Vaccaro graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1958.^[5] She returned to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 1961 comedy Everybody Loves Opal, for which she won the Theatre World Award. For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... An Italian-American is an American of Italian descent either born in America or someone who has immigrated. ... Official language(s) No official language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Largest metro area Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... Thomas Jefferson High School (Dallas) is a secondary school in Dallas, Texas that serves grades 9-12. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Neighborhood Playhouse is an actor training school in New York City, generally associated with the Meisner technique of Sanford Meisner. ... The Lion King at the New Amsterdam Theatre, 2003 Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... The Theatre World Award is an American honor given annually to an actor or an actress in recognition of an outstanding breakout performance in their New York City stage debut. ...

Career

Vaccaro's Broadway credits include Cactus Flower (1965), How Now, Dow Jones (1967), The Goodbye People (1968), the female version of The Odd Couple, (1985), and Jake's Women (1982). The husky-voiced actress has been nominated for the Tony Award three times, for Best Featured Actress in a Play (Cactus Flower), Best Actress in a Musical (Dow Jones), and Best Actress in a Play (The Goodbye People). Rare Broadway poster including the name of Joseph Campanella, who was replaced by Barry Nelson before opening night Cactus Flower is a farce by Abe Burrows. ... How Now, Dow Jones is a Broadway musical comedy. ... 1968 Playbill The Goodbye People is a play by Herb Gardner. ... Walter Matthau and Art Carney in the 1965 Broadway production The Odd Couple was a hit 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spinoffs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. ... Jakes Women is a play by Neil Simon. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...

Vaccaro co-starred in the 1969 Dustin Hoffman/Jon Voight film Midnight Cowboy, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her performance in the 1975 film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough she garnered an Academy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Additional screen credits include Airport '77, Capricorn One, Supergirl, and The Mirror Has Two Faces. The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Jonathan Vincent Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... This article is about the 1969 film. ... The Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Jewish-American author known for her mass-appeal novels. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Capricorn One is a horror/thriller/science fiction movie about a Mars landing hoax. ... Supergirl is a 1984 feature film. ... The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) is a romantic comedy movie starred and directed by Barbra Streisand. ...

Vaccaro's many television credits include a number of television movies and a regular role in the short-lived 1984 series Paper Dolls in addition to guest appearances on The Fugitive, The Defenders, Coronet Blue, The Name of the Game, Marcus Welby, M.D., McCloud, The Streets of San Francisco, The Love Boat, St. Elsewhere, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, Columbo, Touched by an Angel, Friends, The King of Queens, and Nip/Tuck. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award three times and won for Best Supporting Actress in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music for The Shape of Things in 1974. “Telefilm” redirects here. ... The television drama Paper Dolls aired on ABC from September, 1984 to December, 1984. ... The Fugitive is an American television series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963-1967. ... The Defenders is an American television series, a courtroom drama which ran on CBS from 1961-1964. ... Coronet Blue was an American TV series that ran on CBS from May 29, 1967, to September 4, 1967. ... The Name of the Game is the first single from ABBAs album The Album, their fifth for Polar, and their fourth for Epic and Atlantic. ... Marcus Welby, M.D. was a popular medical drama that aired on ABC from late September 1969 to May 1976. ... McCloud was an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1977. ... The Streets of San Francisco was a successful 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros. ... The Love Boat was an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from 1977 until 1986. ... St. ... Jessica in the episode The Cemetery Vote Murder, She Wrote is a popular, long-running television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. ... The Golden Girls is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985 to May 9, 1992. ... Columbo is an American crime fiction TV series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. ... This section contains a list of trivia items. ... For the use of the word in a general sense, see Friendship. ... The King of Queens is an Emmy nominated, American comedy series that ran for nine seasons, from 1998 until 2007. ... Nip/Tuck is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television medical drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks. ... An Emmy Award. ...

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References

External links

• Brenda Vaccaro at the Internet Broadway Database
• Brenda Vaccaro at the Internet Movie Database
• Brenda Vaccaro at TV.com
• Brenda Vaccaro at the Notable Names Database