Biography
Joanne Woodward won the Best Actress Oscar for only her third film, "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957), before working with husband Paul Newman on over a dozen movies, including "The Long, Hot Summer" (1958), "Rachel, Rachel" (1968) and "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" (1990). Born in Thomasville, GA in 1930, Joanne Woodward was a beauty contest regular in her teens before switching her focus to acting, studying drama at Louisiana State University. She made her screen debut in "Tales of Tomorrow" (ABC, 1951-1953), one of numerous TV anthologies Woodward would grace over the decade, and three years later ventured into cinema with the role of tomboy orphan Lissy in post-Civil War western "Count Three and Pray" (1955). After playing an ill-fated heiress in "A Kiss Before Dying" (1956) and frustrated wife in "No Down Payment" (1957), Woodward won both a Golden Globe and Academy Award for her portrayal of a dissociative identity disorder sufferer in "Three Faces of Eve" (1957). A year later she married actor Paul Newman, and starred opposite him in both "The Long, Hot Summer" (1958) and "Rally Round the Flag, Boys" (1958). The real life couple continued to mix business with pleasure throughout the 1960s, appearing on screen together in "From the Terrace" (1960), "Paris Blues" (1961), "A New Kind of Love" (1963) and "Winning" (1969), while Woodward also gave a Golden Globe-winning performance in Newman's directorial debut, "Rachel, Rachel" (1968). Woodward also received awards attention elsewhere, including her leading turn in "The Stripper" (1963), and starred alongside other screen icons such as Marlon Brando in "The Fugitive Kind" (1960), Henry Fonda in "A Big Hand for the Little Lady" (1966) and Sean Connery in "A Fine Madness" (1966). Woodward continued to work with Newman over the next decade, including in "WUSA" (1970), "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" (1972) and "The Drowning Pool" (1975). She also picked up her first BAFTA for "Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams" (1973), shared top billing with Sally Field in miniseries "Sybil" (NBC, 1978) and starred alongside George C. Scott in "They Might Be Giants" (1971), Laurence Olivier in "Come Back, Little Sheba" (1977) and Burt Reynolds in "The End" (1978). After portraying assistant principal Elizabeth Huckaby in "Crisis at Central High" (1981), she added "Harry & Son" (1984), "The Glass Menagerie" (1987) and "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" (1990) to her list of Newman collaborations, and appeared in award-winning TV movies "Do You Remember Love" (1985) and "Blind Spot" (1993), the latter of which she also co-produced. Woodward then served as narrator on period drama "The Age of Innocence" (1993), played the mother of Tom Hanks' AIDS victim in "Philadelphia" (1993) and won her third career Golden Globe for her performance in the adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Breathing Lessons" (1994). Woodward then joined her husband in the cast of "Empire Falls" (HBO, 2005) playing the blue-collar town's manipulative, wealthiest citizen Francine Whiting, before lending her voice to "Change in the Wind," (2010) "Gayby" (2012) and "Lucky Them" (2013).
