Dana Ivey
Dana Ivey
Born	August 14, 1942 Atlanta, Georgia

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Biography

Early life

Ivey was born in Atlanta, Georgia to Hugh Daugherty Ivey, who taught at Georgia Tech and later worked at the Atomic Energy Commission, and Mary Nell McKoin, an actress who appeared in productions of Driving Miss Daisy and taught at Georgia State. Her parents later divorced. She has a younger brother, John, and a half-brother, Eric Santacroce, from her mother's re-marriage to Dante Santacroce.^[1] Ivey has described her family upbringing as "very liberal"; her family was involved in Unitarianism.^[2] She received her undergraduate degree at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida and then received a grant to study drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach, The ATL, A-Town Location in Fulton County in the state of Georgia Coordinates: Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, Dekalb  - Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area    - City  132. ... Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is located in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. With over 16,000 students, Georgia Tech is one of four public research universities in the University System of Georgia. ... Almost a year after World War II ended, Congress established the United States Atomic Energy Commission to foster and control the peace time development of atomic science and technology. ... Driving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry adapted into a 1989 Warner Bros. ... Georgia State University (GSU) is an urban research university in the heart of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves over 28,000 students, and is one of Georgias four research universities. ... It has been suggested that Unitarian Christianity be merged into this article or section. ... Rollins College is an institution of higher learning located in Winter Park, Florida. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Main LAMDA building on Talgarth Road The MacOwan Theatre The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), founded 1861, is a leading British drama school in west London. ...

Career

Ivey appeared in numerous American and Canadian stage productions before making New York City her home in the early 1980s. She made her Broadway debut playing two small roles in a 1981 production of Macbeth; the following year she was cast in a major supporting role in a revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. She was nominated for two Tony Awards in the same season (1984) - as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George and Best Featured Actress in a Play for a revival of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House - a feat repeated by only two other actresses, Amanda Plummer and Kate Burton. Ivey's performances in Driving Miss Daisy (in the title role) and Quartermaine's Terms won her Obies, an annual award presented by the newspaper The Village Voice for off-Broadway productions. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I. Painting by William Rimmer Macbeth is among the most famous of William Shakespeares plays, as well as his shortest tragedy. ... Noel Coward Sir Noel Peirce Coward (December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973) was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. ... Present Laughter is a comedic play written by Noel Coward and first staged in 1939 as part of a double bill with his lower middle-class domestic drama This Happy Breed; in 1941 the double bill was expanded to include Cowards new play Blithe Spirit. ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award® but is formally the Antoinette Perry Award is an annual American award celebrating achievements in theater, including musical theater. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. ... George Bernard Shaw (George) Bernard Shaw[1] (born Dublin, 26 July 1856 – died 2 November 1950 in Hertfordshire) was an Irish playwright based in England. ... In the words of AC Ward in his introduction to Bernard Shaw’s play Heartbreak House ‘the prime theme… was, that cultured, leisured Europe (words used at the beginning of the Preface) was drifting to destruction because those in a position to guide it to safety had failed to learn... Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957 in New York, New York) is an Emmy and Tony Award-winning American actress. ... Kate Burton (born on 10 September 1957 in Geneva, Switzerland) is an American actress. ... Driving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry adapted into a 1989 Warner Bros. ... Play by Simon Gray. ... The Obie Awards, short for Off-Broadway Theater Awards, are annual awards bestowed by the newspaper The Village Voice on theater artists performing in New York City. ... The Village Voice is a weekly newspaper in New York City featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...

Ivey's first major screen appearance was in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's The Color Purple in 1985. Her many film credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Postcards from the Edge, The Addams Family and its sequel, Addams Family Values, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Sleepless in Seattle, Two Weeks Notice, and Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde. Steven Allan Spielberg, (born December 18, 1946) is a three-time Academy Award winning American film director and producer. ... Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African-American author and feminist who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for The Color Purple. ... The Color Purple book cover The Color Purple is a 1982 novel by Alice Walker which received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ... // Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Rambo: First Blood Part II, starring Sylvester Stallone Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone The Color Purple, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Adolph Caesar Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and... Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 comedy film directed by Frank Oz and starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine as the con artists of the title. ... Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 movie which is based on the fictionalized autobiographical book by Carrie Fisher about her relationship with her mother, Debbie Reynolds, and her own drug addiction. ... The Addams Family is the creation of American cartoonist Charles Addams. ... Addams Family Values (1993) is an Academy Award-nominated sequel to the 1991 comedy The Addams Family. ... Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) is the sequel to the film Home Alone. ... Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 movie, directed by Nora Ephron, based on the story by Jeff Arch. ... Two Weeks Notice is a 2002 romantic comedy film starring Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant from Warner Bros. ...

In 1978, Ivey made her television debut in the daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow. Her small screen credits include the 1982 miniseries Little Gloria... Happy at Last, and guest shots on Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, Frasier, Oz, The Practice, Sex and the City, and Monk. 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... Search for Tomorrow was a soap opera which started airing on Monday, September 3, 1951 on CBS. The show was moved from CBS, its original broadcaster, on Friday, March 26, 1982, with NBC picking it up on the following Monday, March 29, 1982. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Little Gloria. ... Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... Frasier is a popular American situation comedy television series that starred Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane, and featured David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Jane Leeves, and Peri Gilpin in regular roles. ... Oz was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by HBO. The show, which aired for six seasons (1997-2003), was created by Tom Fontana and produced by Barry Levinson. ... The Practice (March 4, 1997 - May 16, 2004) was an ABC legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston, Massachusetts law firm. ... Sex and the City was a popular American cable television program based on the novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell. ... Monk is an Emmy Award winning television show about the obsessive-compulsive private detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) who also suffers from at least 103 phobias. ...

Selected Broadway credits

• Butley (2006)
• Henry IV (2003)
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (2003)
• Major Barbara (2001)
• The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997)
• Pack of Lies (1985)

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Theatre awards and nominations

• 2005 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (The Rivals, nominee)
• 1997 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (The Last Night of Ballyhoo, nominee)
• 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Sex and Longing, winner)
• 1987 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play (Driving Miss Daisy, nominee)
• 1984 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Sunday in the Park with George, nominee)
• 1984 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (Heartbreak House, nominee)
• 1983 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Quartermaine's Terms, nominee)
• 1983 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Present Laughter, nominee)

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. ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ...

Footnotes

External links

• Internet Broadway Database listing
• Internet Movie Database listing