Zoe Caldwell
Biography
Zoe Caldwell was an Australian actress whose stage work earned her four Tony Awards. A Melbourne native who grew up in Balwyn, she began performing in the 1950s and early 1960s with the Union Theatre Repertory Company, which became the Melbourne Theatre Company. After joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, she played Bianca in a 1959 Othello and later Helena opposite Edith Evans in All's Well That Ends Well. On Broadway she earned Tonys for Slapstick Tragedy, for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, for Medea and for Master Class. She also played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra in Stratford, Ontario, and directed a Broadway Othello and an Off-Broadway Vita and Virginia. Her screen credits included Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) and Birth (2004), as well as Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011). She voiced the Grand Councilwoman in Lilo & Stitch. In 1970 she was named an Officer in the Order of the British Empire.
86years old at death
- Born Melbourne
- Died Pound Ridge
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Ada Caldwell, Zoe Ada Caldwell and Zoe Ada Whitehead
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 26 years1985 to 2011
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Big break
Caldwell was invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company and emigrated to England, where she played Bianca in a 1959 Othello starring Paul Robeson.
First role
Caldwell started out in Melbourne during the 1950s and early 1960s, acting with the newly formed Union Theatre Repertory Company, which afterward became the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Behind the camera
Caldwell directed the Off-Broadway two-woman play Vita and Virginia, created by Eileen Atkins from the letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, with Atkins as Virginia and Vanessa Redgrave as Vita.
Zoe Caldwell movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close2011 Adventure, Drama, Mysteryas Oskar's Grandmother
IMDb rating 6.9108K votes
Most often with
Roberts Gannaway and Tony Craig directed two of these films together. Seven actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Roberts GannawayDirector, 2 films, 2003 to 2006
All films by Roberts Gannaway
All films by Tony Craig
Also three films together1 more actor
- Chris SandersLeroy & Stitch (2006), Stitch! The Movie (2003) and Lilo & Stitch (2002)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Awards
Six awards and honors from 1966 to 1996, four of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Awards | |||
| 1996 | Best Actress in a Play | Won | |
| 1982 | Best Actress in a Play | Won | |
| 1968 | Best Actress in a Play | Won | |
| 1966 | Best Featured Actress in a Play | Won | |
| Other honors | |||
| 1969 | Officer of the Order of the British Empire | Won | |
| 1966 | Theatre World Award | Won | |
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