12 Facts About Dana Ivey

Dana Ivey was born on August 12,1941 and is an American retired actress.

Dana Ivey originated the title role in Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a Play.

Dana Ivey has a younger brother, John, and a half-brother, Eric Santacroce, and one nephew, Evan Santacroce from her mother's remarriage to Dante Santacroce.

Dana Ivey received her undergraduate degree at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.

Dana Ivey was a member of Phi Mu women's fraternity and earned a Fulbright grant to study drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Dana Ivey received an honorary doctorate from Rollins College in February 2008.

In 1981, Dana Ivey made her Broadway debut playing two small roles in a production of Macbeth; the following year, she was cast in a major supporting role in a revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter, for which she received the Clarence Derwent Award as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play.

Dana Ivey performed in the New York premiere in 2009 of The Savannah Disputation by Evan Smith at Playwrights Horizons.

Dana Ivey appeared as Miss Prism in the Roundabout Theatre Company Broadway production of The Importance of Being Earnest in 2011.

Dana Ivey played Mrs Candour in the 2016 production of The School for Scandal at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

In December 2016, Dana Ivey was invited by the Noel Coward Society to lay flowers on the statue of Sir Noel Coward at the Gershwin Theatre in Manhattan to celebrate the 117th birthday of "The Master".

In 1978, Dana Ivey made her television debut in the daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow.