Anne Meacham

Anne Meacham was an American actress whose career took in theater, film and television. She grew up in Chicago and later studied drama at Yale University and at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Her Broadway debut came in 1952 in The Long Watch, which won her a Clarence Derwent Award for newcomers. Much of her stage work was in Tennessee Williams adaptations: In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, The Gnädiges Fräulein and Suddenly Last Summer, in which she played Catherine Holly and won an Obie as Best Actress. Her other Broadway credits included Ondine, Eugenia, The Crucible and The Seagull. A second Obie came for Hedda Gabler in 1961, and she last appeared on Broadway in 1968 as Gertrude in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. She appeared on television from the 1950s and her film debut was in Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964). She also had a lengthy run on the television series Another World.