Frances Sternhagen (born January 13, 1930) is an American actress. She was raised in Washington, D.C. January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia. ...

Sternhagen has appeared on and off Broadway, in movies and on TV ever since the 1950s, and today is among the leading ladies of the New York stage with major roles continuing well into her 70s (see [1]).

In summer 2006, after finishing her 24th Broadway role, she will guest star on TV's The Closer, playing Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick)'s disapproving Southern mother. The Closer is an American television police drama series. ... Kyra Sedgwick (b. ...

Frances Sternhagen started her career teaching acting, singing and dancing to school children at Milton Academy in Massachusetts, and first performed herself in 1948 at a Bryn Mawr summer theater in The Glass Menagerie and Angel Street according to her (see[2]) profile on Broadway.com. Milton Academy is a private, preparatory, coeducational boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts. ... Brynmawr (Bryn-mawr) is a market town in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, traditional county of Brecknockshire, mid Wales. ... The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams. ... Categories: Stub ...

She went on to work at Washington's Arena Stage Group from 1953-54, then had her Broadway debut in 1955 as Miss T. Muse in The Skin of Our Teeth. The same year she had her off-Broadway debut in "Thieves' Carnival" and her TV debut in "The Great Bank Robbery" on "Omnibus" (CBS). By the following year she had won an off-Broadway (see [3]) Obie Award for "Distinguished Performance (Actress)" in The Admirable Bashville (1955-56). The following is taken from the Arena Stage website: Arena Stage today stands as a flagship American theater. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... 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. ...

She has had an illustrious career in the New York theater ever since. As recorded in the Internet Broadway Database (see[4], [5]) in 24 Broadway roles through 2006 she has won two Tony awards, for "Best Actress, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic}" in 1974 for the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's The Good Doctor based on Chekhov stories (which also won her a Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play"); and, for "Best Actress (Featured Role--Play)" in the 1995 revival of The Heiress, based on the Henry James novella. 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. ... Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is an American playwright and screenwriter. ... Neil Simons The Good Doctor is a play composed of a series of scenes in which the only connecting thread is the character of the Writer, a curious amalgamation of Simon himself and Anton Chekhov. ... Anton Chekhov, Russian writer Pavel Chekov, character in Star Trek Chekhov, town in Moscow Oblast, Russia Chekhov, town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia Chekhovo, health resort in Bashkiria, Russia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ... The Heiress is a 1949 film which tells the story of two young people who want to marry despite the girls fathers objections. ... For other uses of this name, see Henry James (disambiguation). ...

She has been nominated for Tony awards five other times, including for her roles in the original Broadway casts of Equus (1975) and On Golden Pond (1979), both later made into Oscar-nominated movies with other actresses, as well as for Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (1972), the musical Angel (1978) which was based on Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel, and the 2002 revival of Paul Osborne's Mornings at Seven. 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. ... Equus is Latin for horse; it may refer to: Equus, the genus of horses and their close relatives. ... On Golden Pond (1981) was a successful Broadway play written by playwright Ernest Thompson which was turned into a successful and popular movie starring Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda. ... Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and painter. ... Angel was a Broadway musical based on Ketti Frings theatrical adaptation of the Thomas Wolfe novel Look Homeward, Angel. ... Photo by Carl Van Vechten For the modern, currently living author and journalist, see Tom Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900–September 15, 1938) was a famous American novelist. ... Mr Paul Osborne was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from 1995 until 2001. ...

Her best-known off-Broadway role was her feisty portrayal of the title character in 1987's Pulitzer prize-winning drama (see [6]) Driving Miss Daisy which she created and played for over two years at Playwright's Horizon in New York. (Jessica Tandy later won an Academy Award playing Daisy in the 1989 movie.) Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... Driving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry adapted into a 1989 Warner Bros. ... Jessica Tandy, christened Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was a noted Academy Award-winning British-American theatre, film and TV actress. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ...

Off-Broadway awards include two nominations for the (see[7]) Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding Actress in a Play": in 1998, for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night at the (see [8]) Irish Repertory Theater, and in 2005, for the World War I drama (see [9]) Echoes of the War. Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Eugene ONeill Eugene Gladstone ONeill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright. ... Long Days Journey Into Night is a dramatic play in four acts by Eugene ONeill, widely considered to be his masterwork. ... Combatants Allied Powers: France Italy Russia Serbia United Kingdom United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg Reinhard...

She also won Distinguished Performance (see[10]) Obie Awards for The Room and A Slight Ache (1964-65). In 1998 she won the Dramatists Guild Fund's Madge Evans & Sidney Kingsley Award for Excellence in Theater. 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. ...

She recently starred in the 2005 revival of Edward Albee's Seascape, produced by Lincoln Center Theater at the Booth Theater on Broadway. She had also appeared in the original Broadway production of Edward Albee's All Over in 1971, with Colleen Dewhurst and Jessica Tandy. Her previous Broadway role was in the summer 2005 production of Steel Magnolias with Marsha Mason, Delta Burke, Christine Ebersole, Lily Rabe and Rebecca Gayheart. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. ... Seascape is a play by the US playwright Edward Albee. ... Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. ... Colleen Dewhurst (born June 3, 1924; died August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-born actress best known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions from Sullivan Entertainment. ... Jessica Tandy, christened Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was a noted Academy Award-winning British-American theatre, film and TV actress. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling, is a 1987 off-Broadway play, made into a successful movie in 1989. ... Marsha Mason with Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942, St. ... Delta Ramona Leah Burke (born July 30, 1956 in Orlando, Florida) is an American television and film actress. ... Christine Erbersole Christine Ebersole (b. ... Young actress currently appearing (August 2005) in the Broadway show Steel Magnolias. ... Rebecca Gayheart (born August 12, 1971 in Hazard, Kentucky) is an American actress. ...

Frances Sternhagen made her (see[11]) film debut in 1967's New York City high school drama (see[12]) Up the Down Staircase, which starred Sandy Dennis. She has worked periodically in Hollywood since then. She had character roles in the 1971 Paddy Chayefsky's classic The Hospital, in Two People (1973) and in Billy Wilder's Fedora (1978). She appeared in Starting Over (1979) which starred Burt Reynolds; with Sean Connery in Outland (1981); and with Michael J. Fox in Bright Lights, Big City (1988). She played Farrah Fawcett's mother in See You In the Morning (1989), Richard Farnsworth's wife in Misery (1990), and John Lithgow's psychiatrist in Raising Cain (1992). Up the Down Staircase is a humorous novel written by Bel Kaufman, and published in 1965. ... Sandra (Sandy) Dale Dennis (April 27, 1937 – March 2, 1992) was an American theater and film actress. ... ... Sidney Aaron Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter for Hollywood. ... The Hospital is a 1971 black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert Bock. ... Billy Wilder Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was a screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ... Fedora can mean: Fédora, a play by Victorien Sardou Fedora (hat), a hat named after the play Fedora (Giordano), an opera from 1898 by Umberto Giordano Fedora (movie), a 1978 movie Fedora Core, a Linux distribution spun off from Red Hat Linux and produced by the Fedora Project Fedora... Starting Over is a 1979 film which tells the story of a recently divorced man (Burt Reynolds) who is torn between his new girlfriend (Jill Clayburgh) and his ex-wife (Candice Bergen). ... Burt Reynolds in 2005 Burt Reynolds (born Burton Leon Reynolds, Jr. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is an Oscar-winning Scottish actor and producer who is also well-known for his portrayal of James Bond. ... Outland is a 1981 science fiction movie starring Sean Connery. ... For other people named Michael Fox, see Michael Fox (disambiguation). ... ÜýÝ ... Fawcett as Mary-Ann in Myra Breckinridge (1970) Farrah Fawcett (born Farrah Leni Fawcett[1] on February 2, 1947) is an American actress. ... Richard Farnsworth Richard Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor. ... For other uses, see Misery (disambiguation). ... John Lithgow John Arthur Lithgow (pronounced lith-go) (born October 19, 1945, in Rochester, New York) is an actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. ... Raising Cain is a 1992 film starring John Lithgow. ...

She may be best known to TV audiences as Esther Clavin, mother of John Ratzenberger's Boston postman character Cliff Clavin, on the long-running series Cheers for which she received two Emmy Award nominations. She also played Millicent Carter on ER, had character roles on Sex and the City (another Emmy Award nomination) and Law & Order, among other network sitcoms, and worked for many years in soap operas such as Another World and Love of Life. She recorded a voiceover for a May 2002 episode of The Simpsons known as The Frying Game, in which Homer Simpson is sentenced to the electric chair. John Ratzenberger. ... Cheers was a American situation comedy produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. Cheers was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. ... An Emmy Award. ... ER is a long-running serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. ... Sex and the City was a popular American cable television program based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell. ... An Emmy Award. ... Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Another World (AW) (sometimes called Another World: Bay City to distinguish it from its spinoffs in the 1970s and 1980s) was a Daytime Emmy-winning American soap opera which ran on the NBC television network (CTV in Canada) from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. ... Love of Life was an American soap opera which aired on CBS from September 24, 1951 to February 1, 1980. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... The Frying Game is the 21st episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season. ... Homer Jay Simpson is a main character in the animated television series The Simpsons. ...

Frances Sternhagen was educated at Vassar College, where according to (see [13]) Broadway.com, she was elected head of the Drama Club "after silencing a giggling college crowd at a campus dining hall with her interpretation of a scene from Richard II, playing none other than Richard himself." She also studied at the Perry Mansfield School of the Theatre, and New York's Neighborhood Playhouse (see [14]) Broadway.com quotes her as telling Newsday in an August 2004 interview, "When kids are asked now what they want to be, they say, 'I want to be famous,' and they have no concept of what kind of work that involves." Vassar College is a private coeducational liberal arts college situated in Poughkeepsie, New York. ... Newsday is a daily tabloid-size newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City borough of Queens, although it is sold throughout the greater New York City metropolitan area. ...

She is the daughter of John M. and Gertrude Sternhagen. She met her husband, actor and drama teacher Thomas Carlin (who died in 1991), at The Catholic University of America (although she is not Catholic) and had 6 children with him -- Paul, Amanda, Tony, Sarah, Peter, and John Carlin -- several of whom are now professional actors and musicians. The Catholic University of America (abbreviated CUA), located in Washington, DC, is unique as the national university of the Roman Catholic Church and as the only higher education institution founded by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops. ...

Frances Sternhagen lives in New Rochelle, New York. New Rochelle City Hall New Roc City New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County in the U.S. state of New York, 16 miles (26 km) from Grand Central Terminal in New York City and 2 miles north of the border with The Bronx. ...

External links

• Frances Sternhagen at the Internet Movie Database
• Frances Sternhagen at the Internet Broadway Database