13 Facts About Brenda Vaccaro

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Brenda Buell Vaccaro was born on November 18,1939 and is an American stage, television, and film actress.

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Brenda Vaccaro was raised in Dallas, Texas, where her parents, in 1943, founded Mario's Restaurant, and where she graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School.

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Brenda Vaccaro was featured on the May 29,1970 cover of Life magazine.

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Brenda Vaccaro appeared with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Brenda Vaccaro played Ethel Rosenberg in Stanley Kramer's Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1974, and for her performance in the 1975 film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough, she gained an Academy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.

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Brenda Vaccaro was nominated for an Emmy Award three times and won for Best Supporting Actress in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music for The Shape of Things in 1974.

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Brenda Vaccaro was lampooned by Andrea Martin on SCTV for a groundbreaking 1980 commercial appearance for feminine hygiene products.

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Brenda Vaccaro supplied the voice for Johnny Bravo's mother Bunny Bravo in the animated cartoon series.

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Brenda Vaccaro made an appearance on The Smurfs as Scruple, an apprentice of Gargamel, opposite Paul Winchell.

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Brenda Vaccaro played Al Pacino's sister in You Don't Know Jack.

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Brenda Vaccaro entered a nearly seven-year relationship with Summertree co-star Michael Douglas in 1971.

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Brenda Vaccaro guest-starred in two episodes of The Streets of San Francisco, the TV crime drama in which Douglas co-starred from 1972 to 1977.

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Brenda Vaccaro has been friends with Barbra Streisand since they both appeared on Broadway in the early 1960s.