Kim Stanley
Actor, Theater Actor
1925 – 2001
Who was Kim Stanley?
Kim Stanley was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with occasional film performances.
She began her acting career in theatre, and subsequently attended the Actors Studio in New York City, New York. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her role in The Chase, and starred in the Broadway productions of Picnic and Bus Stop. Stanley was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her roles in A Touch of the Poet and A Far Country.
During the 1950s, Stanley was a prolific performer in television, and later progressed to film, with a well-received performance in The Goddess. She was the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird and starred in Séance on a Wet Afternoon, for which she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was less active during the remainder of her career; two of her later film successes were as the mother of Frances Farmer in Frances, for which she received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and as Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff. She received an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance as Big Mama in a television adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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- Born
- Feb 11, 1925
Tularosa - Also known as
- Patricia Beth Reid
- Patricia Kimberley Reid
- The Female Brando
- Patricia Reid
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Alfred Ryder
(1958/08/01 - 1964) - Curt Conway
(1949 - 1956) - Bruce Hall
(1945 - 1946) - Joseph Siegel
(1964 - 1967)
- Alfred Ryder
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of New Mexico
- Actors Studio
- Died
- Aug 20, 2001
Santa Fe
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on July 23, 2013
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