Anne Jackson

Anne Jackson was an American actress whose stage, screen, and television work began on Broadway in 1945. Born in Millvale, Pennsylvania, she moved to Brooklyn as a child and studied acting in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse and also at the Actors Studio. She received a Tony Award nomination in 1956 for Paddy Chayefsky's Middle of the Night and won an Obie Award in 1963 for the Off-Broadway plays The Typists and The Tiger. Her stage work included Summer and Smoke, Luv, The Waltz of the Toreadors, Lost in Yonkers, and Mr. Peters' Connections. In film she appeared in How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968), Lovers and Other Strangers (1970), The Shining (1980), and Folks! (1992). Her many television credits ranged from Gunsmoke and The Defenders to Rhoda, The Facts of Life, Law & Order, and ER, and she narrated Stellaluna for Reading Rainbow.