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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Sada Thompson, the durable matriarch of stage and screen who won a Tony Award for her portraits of three sisters and their mother in the 1971 comedy "Twigs" and an Emmy ...
On the big screen, Thompson could be seen only three times: Robert Mulligan’s The Pursuit of Happiness (1971), a generation-gap drama toplining Michael Sarrazin (who died a couple of weeks ago) and Barbara Hershey; Desperate Characters (1971), with Shirley MacLaine and Kenneth Mars (who died last February); and Ed Harris’ biopic Pollock (2000), in which Thompson played painter Jackson ...
May 14, 2021 · Sada Thompson - Family & Married Life. Late actress Sada Thompson was born on September 27, 1927, in Moines, Iowa as the eldest child among the three children of her father, magazine editor Hugh Woodruff Thompson and her mother, Corlyss Gibson.
May 6, 2011 · Sada Thompson dies at 83; stage and TV actress known ...
May 4, 2011 · Actress. She was best known for her portrayal of the matriarch Kate Lawrence on the ABC television drama Family from 1976 to 1980. Born Sada Carolyn Thompson, her family later moved from Iowa to New Jersey where she attended Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School in Fanwood, New Jersey. She later earned a Bachelor of Fine...
Aug 25, 2024 · Sada Thompson, a Tony Award-winning actress best known to TV viewers for her Emmy Award-winning role as the matriarch in the 1970s dramatic TV series "Family," has died. She was
Sada Carolyn Thompson (September 27, 1927 – May 4, 2011) was an American stage, film, and television actress.Though best known to television audiences as Kate Lawrence in Family (1976–1980), for which she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1978, Thompson originally won acclaim as a theater actress on Broadway winning a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play ...
