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Actress in a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy
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Academy Award
Actress in a Supporting Role
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Dennis achieved Broadway fame with her leading role in Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns (1962–63), for which she won a Tony award for her performance alongside Jason Robards. [7] The show ran for 428 performances.
Academy Awards, USA. 1967 Winner Oscar. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Sandy Dennis was unable to attend the Academy Awards presentations, because she was working on a new film, Sweet November (1968), being shot in New York. Mike Nichols accepted the award on her behalf.
- April 27, 1937
- March 2, 1992
Winning the Theatre World as well as the coveted Tony Award for her performance, she continue her run of prizes with a second consecutive Tony for her sexy turn in the comedy "Any Wednesday" (1964).
- January 1, 1
- Hastings, Nebraska, USA
- January 1, 1
- Westport, Connecticut, USA
Sandy Dennis winning the Oscar® for Supporting Actress for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the 39th Academy Awards® in 1967. Presented by Sidney Poitier...
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Check all the awards won and nominated for by Sandy Dennis - Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (1966) , Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (1964) , Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (1963) and more awards.
Dennis hit her stride during the 1960s, making her film debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and then winning Tony Awards for her Broadway roles as a social worker in A Thousand Clowns in 1963 and as the unconventional mistress of a tycoon in Any Wednesday in 1964.
Mar 5, 1992 · Sandy Dennis, who as a young actress in the 1960's entranced Broadway and Hollywood with performances that won her two Tony Awards and an Academy Award, died on Monday at her home in...
