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Joanne Woodward
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Joanne Woodward

b. 1930

American actress (born 1930)

Born
27 Feb 1930 · Thomasville

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 110 years
  1. 27 Feb 1930BornBorn in Thomasville
  2. 1957AwardGolden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
  3. 1957AwardNational Board of Review Award for Best Actress
  4. 1958AwardAcademy Award for Best Actress
  5. 1959AwardHasty Pudding Woman of the Year
  6. 1960AwardStar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
  7. 1968AwardGolden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
  8. 1973AwardCannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
  9. 1973AwardNew York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
  10. 1974AwardBAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
  11. 1985AwardPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
  12. 1985AwardSAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1930 – today).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American retired actress. She made her career breakthrough in the 1950s and earned esteem and respect playing complex women with a characteristic nuance and depth of character. Her accolades include an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Woodward is the oldest living Best Actress Oscar winner.

Woodward is perhaps best known for her performance as a woman with dissociative identity disorder in The Three Faces of Eve (1957), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Until his death in 2008, she was married for fifty years to actor Paul Newman, with whom she often collaborated either as a co-star, or as an actor in films directed or produced by him. In 1990, Woodward earned a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College at age 60, graduating alongside her daughter Clea.

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