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Joanne Woodward

Full / Real Name: Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward
Born: 27 February 1930 (94 years old)
Gender: Female

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Joanne Woodward is an American actress best known for her working association with and marriage to Paul Newman from 1958 until his death in 2008.

Woodward's first film was a post-Civil War western Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually, understudying in the New York production of Picnic which featured Paul Newman.

The two were married in 1958 after their work together in the film The Long, Hot Summer. By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

She appeared with Newman in ten feature films:

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) - (directed by Newman)
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990)

Both appeared in the HBO mini-series Empire Falls (2005) but had no scenes together.

She starred in five films that Newman directed or produced but in which he did not star:

Rachel, Rachel (1968)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - which featured their daughter, Nell Potts (1972)
The Shadow Box (1980) - (television movie)
The Glass Menagerie (1987)


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