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My Take
Joanne Woodward represents the kind of career I respect most: one measured in decades, not headlines. Winning the Academy Award in 1958 and then a Cannes Best Actress prize fifteen years later tells me her gift was never a passing fashion but a sustained craft. She specialized in complex, interior women at a time when Hollywood preferred its actresses simple, and she made nuance look effortless. That she also worked as a producer and voice actor shows real curiosity about the whole machinery of storytelling. To me, Woodward is proof that quiet excellence outlasts glamour every single time.
Overview
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.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Joanne Woodward
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョアン・ウッドワード
- Reading
- じょあん・うっどわーど
- Born
- February 27, 1930 (age 96)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Horse
- Origin
- Thomasville, Georgia, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / voice actor / theatrical producer / film producer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Greenville High School
- University
- Louisiana State University
Awards & achievements
- Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Want
- 1958 Academy Award for Best Actress
- 1957 National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
- 1957 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
- 1957 National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
- 1968 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
- 1973 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
- 1973 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.