1. Kathleen Chalfant's father, William Bishop, was an officer in the Coast Guard.
11 Facts About Kathleen Chalfant
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Kathleen Chalfant studied acting in New York with Wynn Handman, who was a protege of Sanford Meisner, and with Alessandro Fersen in Rome.
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Kathleen Chalfant made her Off-Broadway acting debut in Cowboy Pictures in June 1974.
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Kathleen Chalfant has since appeared in over three dozen Off-Broadway productions.
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Kathleen Chalfant was nominated for her official Broadway debut role at the 1993 Tony Awards for Best Actress in Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches.
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Kathleen Chalfant earned the Outer Circle Critics, Drama Desk, Obie and Lucille Lortel awards for her performance as Vivian Bearing in Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit in 1998; she shaved her head for the role.
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In 2009, Kathleen Chalfant performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film utilizing dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.
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Kathleen Chalfant recently played Margaret Butler in The Affair on Showtime.
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Kathleen Chalfant was presented with the 2018 Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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In 2018, Chalfant read T S Eliot's Four Quartets at the Bard SummerScape Festival as part of a new performance with choreography by Pam Tanowitz, music by Kaija Saariaho, and images by Brice Marden.
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In 1966, Kathleen Chalfant married Henry Kathleen Chalfant, a photographer and documentary filmmaker.