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| image =| birth_name = Zoe Ada Caldwelldf=y9|14}}Melbourne, Victoria (Australia)>Victoria, Australiadf=y2193314}}| death_place = Pound Ridge, New York, U.S.Robert Whitehead (theatre producer)>1968reason=died}}| occupation = Actress| years_active = 1953–2018| children = 2| resting_place = Pound Ridge Cemetery, Pound Ridge, New York, U.S.}}Zoe Ada Caldwell {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|OBE}} (14 September 1933 – 16 February 2020) was an Australian actress.NEWS, Zoe Caldwell, Winner of Four Tony Awards, Is Dead at 86,weblink The New York Times, 18 February 2020, 18 February 2020, Genzlinger, Neil, She was a four-time Tony Award winner, winning Best Featured Actress in a Play for Slapstick Tragedy (1966), and Best Actress in a Play for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1968), Medea (1982), and Master Class (1996). Her film appearances include The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Birth (2004), and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011).She was also known for providing the voice of the Grand Councilwoman in the Lilo & Stitch franchise and in (Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep).

Early life

Caldwell was born in Melbourne, and raised in the suburb of Balwyn. Her father, Edgar, was a plumber.Nightingale, Benedict. Her Infinite Variety, The New York Times, 21 October 2001; accessed 27 May 2008. Caldwell's mother often took some of the neighbourhood kids to the Elizabethan Theatre in Richmond where they could go backstage and watch rehearsals and performances.WEB, University of Melbourne, Ms Zoe Caldwell,weblink 29 September 2003, 27 February 2020,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060830125202weblink">weblink 30 August 2006, WEB, State University of New York, New York State Writers Institute on Caldwell,weblink 13 November 2006,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20061031143124weblink">weblink 31 October 2006,

Career

Caldwell began her career in Melbourne in the 1950s and early 1960s, performing with the newly formed Union Theatre Repertory Company (later the Melbourne Theatre Company).WEB,weblink Zoe Caldwell, AusStage, 25 July 2017, She emigrated to England upon being invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company at a time when Charles Laughton was attempting to revive Lear, and Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins, Albert Finney were among the other newcomers in the company. She played Bianca in the 1959 production of Othello, starring Paul Robeson. Later she played the indomitable Helena, opposite Dame Edith Evans in a production of All's Well That Ends Well. Her career later brought her to the United States, where she was one of the original company of actors under Guthrie's direction at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. At the Guthrie, she played parts such as Ophelia in Hamlet and Natasha in Three Sisters.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}A life member of the Actors Studio,BOOK, A Player's Place: The Story of the Actors Studio,weblink registration, MacMillan Publishing, 1980, 978-0025426504, New York, 277, Appendix: Life Members of the Actors Studio as of January 1980, David, Garfield, Caldwell won four Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' Slapstick Tragedy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Medea and Master Class. In the last she portrayed opera diva Maria Callas. In Stratford, Ontario she appeared often, including her role as Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra opposite Christopher Plummer's Mark Antony in 1967.WEB, Zoe Caldwell,weblink Stratford Festival, 27 February 2020, Her other credits on Broadway include Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business in which she played Eve, a one-woman play by William Luce based on the life of Lillian Hellman and a production of Macbeth with Christopher Plummer as Macbeth and Glenda Jackson as Lady Macbeth under Caldwell's direction. Caldwell directed, Off-Broadway, a two-woman play, created by Eileen Atkins, Vita and Virginia, based on the letters between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Atkins played Virginia and Vanessa Redgrave played Vita. Caldwell directed the Broadway production of Othello in the late 1970s with James Earl Jones, Christopher Plummer, and Dianne Wiest. She helmed the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut for two limited-run seasons as its Artistic Director in the mid-1980s.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}Caldwell also performed on film, most notably as an imperious dowager in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo. She voiced the character of the Grand Councilwoman in Disney's Lilo & Stitch, and continued voicing the character in the franchise's later films and in (Lilo & Stitch: The Series), as well as in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.WEB,weblink Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep details, IMDb, 14 January 2015, In 2011, she acted in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.

Personal life

Caldwell graduated from Methodist Ladies' College, Kew and, much later, received an honorary degree from the University of Melbourne.PRESS RELEASE, Performing Arts at Pace University Presents An Evening with Zoe Caldwell, 4/23,weblink Pace University, 13 April 2012, 27 February 2020, In 1968, she married Canadian-born Broadway producer Robert Whitehead, a cousin of actor Hume Cronyn. They had two sons and were married until Whitehead's death in June 2002.Gussow, Mel (17 June 2002). "Robert Whitehead, Who Brought Top Playwrights to Broadway, Dies at 86" The New York Times. Retrieved 27 January 2014.

Honours

In 1970, Caldwell was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by The Queen.NEWS, Zoe Caldwell obituary,weblink 19 February 2020, Michael, Conevey, The Guardian, London, 27 February 2020,

Death

Caldwell died in Pound Ridge, New York on 16 February 2020, aged 86, of complications from Parkinson's disease.

Filmography

Film{| class"wikitable sortable"

! Year !! Title !! Role !! NotesFestival in Adelaide >| The Purple Rose of Cairo The Countess Lilo & Stitch >Grand Councilwoman VoiceStitch! The Movie >| Voice, direct-to-videoBirth (2004 film)>Birth Mrs. Hill Stitch's Great Escape! >Grand Councilwoman Voice, shortLeroy & Stitch >| Voice, direct-to-videoExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close (film)>Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Oskar's Grandmother (final film role)">

Television{| class"wikitable sortable"

! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes ''A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film)'' >| TV movieBBC Sunday Night Play >| Episode: "Twentieth Century Theatre: Justice"ITV Playhouse >| Episode: "The Song of Louise in the Morning"Suspense >| Episode: "Flight 404"Theatre 70 >| Episode: "The Neighbour"Macbeth (1961 film)>Macbeth Lady Macbeth TV movieFestival (Canadian TV series)>Festival Episode: "The Doctor's Dilemma"Playdate (CBC TV series)>Playdate Streetwalker Episode: "A Night Out"Dear Liar#Television adaptation>Dear Liar Mrs Patrick Campbell >| TV movie The Secret of Michelangelo Narrator TV movieGreat Performances >Sarah Bernhardt >| Episode: "Sarah ... Sarah Bernhardt"Play of the Month >| Episode: "The Seagull"Medea >| TV movieAmerican Masters >| Episode: "Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts"Lantern Hill (film)>Lantern Hill Mrs. Kennedy TV movieRoad to Avonlea >| Episode: "Old Lady Lloyd"(Lilo & Stitch: The Series) >| Voice, Episode: "Finder"

Theatre credits

{| class="wikitable sortable"! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes ''The Devils (play)'' >| Broadway TheatreList of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams#Slapstick Tragedy>Slapstick Tragedy Polly Longacre Theater – Tony Award ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel)#Adaptations'' >Jean Brodie>| Helen Hayes Theater – Tony Award The Creation of the World and Other Business Eve Shubert Theater ''The Dance of Death (Strindberg play)'' >| Vivian Beaumont TheaterAn Almost Perfect Person >| Belasco TheaterMedea (play)>Medea Medea Cort Theater – Tony AwardLillian >| Ethel Barrymore TheaterMacbeth >| Mark Hellinger TheatrePark Your Car In Harvard Yard >| Music Box TheaterMaster Class >Maria Callas>| John Golden Theater – Tony Award The Play What I Wrote Mystery Guest Star – replacement Lyceum Theater ''The Visit (play)'' >|Melbourne Theatre Company">

Video games{| class"wikitable sortable"

! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes(Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626) >| Deleted role; credit onlyKingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep >|

Bibliography

• BOOK, Zoe, Caldwell, I Will be Cleopatra: An Actress's Journey, New York, W. W. Norton, 2002, 978-0393323603,

References

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External links

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