Deanna Dunagan is best known for her Tony Award-winning portrayal of Violet Weston in Tracy Letts' August: Osage County and for her portrayal of Nana in M Night Shyamalan's 2015 film The Visit.
16 Facts About Deanna Dunagan
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Deanna Dunagan has appeared in the recurring roles of Mother Bernadette on the Fox television series The Exorcist and Mrs Charles on Chicago Med.
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Deanna Dunagan portrayed Dr Willa Sipe in the 2018 film An Acceptable Loss by writer Joe Chappelle; and starred as Sharon in the 2021 film Stillwater alongside Matt Damon and Abigail Breslin.
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Deanna Dunagan earned a degree in music education from the University of Texas, Austin.
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Deanna Dunagan briefly dated Charles Whitman, the infamous "Texas Tower Sniper", while a college student.
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Deanna Dunagan married her high school sweetheart and gave birth to a son; but the marriage ended a few years later.
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Deanna Dunagan was engaged to a bullfighter, but they never married, and she went on to pursue her acting career in the United States.
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Deanna Dunagan began her acting career touring in dinner theater and later performing in regional theaters such as the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida, and the Actors Theatre of Louisville before trying her luck in New York City.
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Deanna Dunagan made her Broadway debut in the 1979 production of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman at Circle in the Square as an understudy for Ann Sachs.
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Sachs became ill at one point during the show's run and Deanna Dunagan filled in for her with great success.
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In 1981, Deanna Dunagan performed in the first national tour of Children of a Lesser God.
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Deanna Dunagan has worked in films including The Visit, The Naked Face, Running Scared, Men Don't Leave, and Losing Isaiah.
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Deanna Dunagan has appeared in made for television movies, in the TV mini-series A Will of Their Own and Amerika, and as a guest star on the television shows Prison Break, What About Joan, Missing Persons, and The Strain.
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Deanna Dunagan has had recurring roles in Unforgettable and The Exorcist.
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Deanna Dunagan went on to portray Violet Weston in productions in London's West End in 2009 and in Sydney, Australia in 2010.
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Deanna Dunagan returned to New York in 2017 to Playwrights Horizons Off-Broadway to perform in the world premiere of The Treasurer by Max Posner.