Emerging from a Southern background, she studied drama at Louisiana State University before honing her craft at the Actors Studio and under Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. After television appearances in the 1950s and a Broadway stint, she entered film with Count Three and Pray (1955) and gained critical acclaim for portraying a woman with multiple personalities in The Three Faces o… Read more
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Known for Philadelphia 1993 The Age of Innocence 1993 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955 The Long, Hot Summer 1958 Series ★ 7.8 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955
Beth Paine ★ 7 The Age of Innocence 1993
Narrator (voice) Series ★ 7.7 The Carol Burnett Show 1967
Midge Gibson ★ 7.2 The Three Faces of Eve 1957
Eve White / Eve Black / Jane Series ★ 7.4 Sybil 1976
Dr. Cornelia Wilbur ★ 7.3 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds 1972
Beatrice Hunsdorfer ★ 7.1 A Big Hand for the Little Lady 1966
Mary ★ 6.9 The Fugitive Kind 1960
Carol Cutrere ★ 6.9 They Might Be Giants 1971
Dr. Mildred Watson Series ★ 6.6 Empire Falls 2005
Francine Whiting ★ 6.6 Rachel, Rachel 1968
Rachel Cameron ★ 6.6 From the Terrace 1960
Mary St. John / Mrs. Alfred Eaton ★ 6.5 Paris Blues 1961
Lillian Corning ★ 6.3 No Down Payment 1957
Leola Boone ★ 6.4 The Drowning Pool 1975
Iris Devereaux ★ 6.2 The Glass Menagerie 1987
Amanda Wingfield ★ 6.2 A New Kind of Love 1963
Samantha Blake ★ 6.3 A Kiss Before Dying 1956
Dorothy ('Dorie') Kingship ★ 6 Winning 1969
Elora Capua ★ 6.1 Mr. & Mrs. Bridge 1990
India Bridge ★ 5 A Fine Madness 1966
Rhoda Shillitoe ★ 6 Lucky Them 2013
Doris (voice) ★ 5.9 Harry & Son 1984
Lilly ★ 5.2 Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! 1958
Grace Oglethorpe Bannerman ★ 5.3 WUSA 1970
Geraldine ★ 5.6 The End 1978
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