79 Facts About Patti LuPone

Patti Ann LuPone was born on April 21,1949 and is an American actress and singer.

Patti LuPone was inducted to the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2006.

Patti LuPone made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters in 1973.

Patti LuPone went on to receive three Tony Awards: two for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles as Eva Peron in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, and Rose in Gypsy and one for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Joanne in the Stephen Sondheim revival Company.

Patti LuPone was Tony-nominated for The Robber Bridegroom, Anything Goes, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and War Paint.

Patti LuPone was nominated for her role as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard in 1993.

Patti LuPone has two Grammy Awards for the recording of the 2007 Los Angeles Opera production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

Patti LuPone appeared in three Ryan Murphy series: American Horror Story, Pose, and Hollywood.

Patti LuPone acted in Penny Dreadful, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and Agatha All Along.

Patti LuPone's great-great aunt was 19th-century Spanish-born Italian opera singer Adelina Patti.

Patti LuPone's older brother Robert LuPone was a Tony-nominated actor, dancer, and director who originated the role of Zach, the director, in A Chorus Line.

Patti LuPone was part of the first graduating class of Juilliard's Drama Division, which included actors Kevin Kline and David Ogden Stiers.

Patti LuPone graduated from Juilliard in 1972 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

In 1972, Patti LuPone became one of the original members of The Acting Company, formed by John Houseman.

Patti LuPone made her Broadway debut in the play The Three Sisters as Irina in 1973.

Patti LuPone finds conflicting layers of past and present selves in practically every line.

Patti LuPone emerges as both loving matriarch and wounded adolescent, sentimental and devastatingly clear-eyed.

In 1979, Patti LuPone starred in the original Broadway production of Evita, the musical based on the life of Eva Peron, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and directed by Harold Prince.

Patti LuPone reportedly won the role over 200 auditionees, including Meryl Streep, Ann-Margret and Raquel Welch.

In 1983, Patti LuPone starred as Rosalind opposite Val Kilmer in As You Like It at the Guthrie Theatre, directed by Liviu Ciulei.

Patti LuPone returned to Broadway in 1987 to star as nightclub singer Reno Sweeney in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes.

Patti LuPone starred opposite Howard McGillin, and they both received Tony nominations for their performances.

Patti LuPone has worked with playwright David Mamet on The Water Engine, State and Main, and Heist.

Patti LuPone played Lady Bird Johnson in the TV movie, LBJ: The Early Years.

Patti LuPone played Libby Thatcher on the television drama Life Goes On, which ran on ABC from 1989 to 1993.

Patti LuPone has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award: for the TV movie The Song Spinner, and for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series on Frasier in 1998.

Patti LuPone had a cameo as herself that year on an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Kelsey Grammer.

In 1993, Patti LuPone returned to London to create the role of Norma Desmond in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard at the Adelphi Theater.

Lloyd Webber then selected Glenn Close to open the show in Los Angeles and eventually on Broadway, despite Patti LuPone being contracted to open both productions.

Patti LuPone says she was essentially blacklisted in Hollywood after the Sunset Boulevard debacle due to rumors that she had been difficult to work with in New York.

Patti LuPone really is vulnerable here in a way that wasn't anticipated: she's in the process of creating a role for which she isn't ideally suited, but she's working like a trouper to get it right.

Since 2001, Patti LuPone has been a regular performer at the Chicago Ravinia Festival.

Patti LuPone starred in a six-year-long series of concert presentations of Stephen Sondheim musicals, which began in honor of his seventieth birthday.

Patti LuPone appeared on the series Ugly Betty in March 2007 as the mother of Marc St James.

Patti LuPone had a recurring guest role as Frank Rossitano's mother on 30 Rock.

Patti LuPone appeared as herself in the season two finale of the television series Glee.

Patti LuPone returned to Broadway in October 2005 to star as Mrs Lovett in John Doyle's new Broadway production of Sweeney Todd.

On February 10,2007, Patti LuPone starred with Audra McDonald in the Los Angeles Opera production of Kurt Weill's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny directed by John Doyle.

Patti LuPone won the Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award, Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for her performance in Gypsy.

That same year, Patti LuPone created the role of Lucia in the original Broadway production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which opened at the Belasco Theater on November 4,2010, and closed on January 2,2011, after 23 preview and 69 regular performances.

Patti LuPone was nominated for a Tony and Drama Desk, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance.

In 2011, Patti LuPone played the role of Joanne in a four-night limited engagement concert production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Company at the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Paul Gemignani.

Patti LuPone made her New York City Ballet debut in May 2011 in a production of The Seven Deadly Sins directed and choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett.

In late 2012, Patti LuPone appeared with Debra Winger in the premiere of David Mamet's play The Anarchist.

Patti LuPone guest starred on Army Wives on July 8,2012.

Patti LuPone reunited with fellow guest star Kellie Martin as her mother .

Patti LuPone voiced the character Yellow Diamond in the animated series Steven Universe and Steven Universe Future.

In 2013, Patti LuPone was cast in the third season of the FX series American Horror Story as Joan Ramsey, a religious mother with a hidden past, and played herself in the third season of HBO's Girls.

Patti LuPone returned to the show in 2016 in the role of Dr Seward, an alienist aiding Eva Green's character.

Seward is an adaptation of John Seward from Bram Stoker's Dracula, and claims to be a descendant of Joan Clayton, the character Patti LuPone portrayed in the second season.

In June 2015, Patti LuPone appeared in the Douglas Carter Beane play Shows for Days at Lincoln Center Theater.

Patti LuPone again received media attention for an incident during a Shows for Days performance when she confiscated a patron's cellphone after they were observed using it during the show; it was returned after the performance.

In 2017, Patti LuPone originated the role of Helena Rubinstein in the musical War Paint on Broadway, after performing the role in the summer of 2016 in the musical's world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.

In 2019, Patti LuPone played an antagonistic role in Pose, appearing in second season of the series.

In 2020, Patti LuPone starred in the Ryan Murphy series Hollywood for Netflix.

The production returned, featuring Patti LuPone starring opposite Katrina Lenk, with previews starting on November 15,2021, before officially opening December 9,2021.

On May 10,2022, during a live conversation with the American Theatre Wing and her Company co-stars, Patti LuPone publicly addressed a patron who was not wearing their face mask properly, a violation of Broadway League COVID-19 safety protocols.

Patti LuPone later explained that the patron had already been warned by theater staff and had responded dismissively.

In 2023, Patti LuPone revealed that she would play the role of Lilia Calderu, a centuries-old witch with divination powers, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ series Agatha All Along.

Patti LuPone appears at venues across North America in concerts with Mandy Patinkin, at such venues as the Mayo Center for the Performing Arts in September 2010.

Patti LuPone appeared as the inaugural act at a new cabaret space, 54 Below, in New York City in June 2012.

Patti LuPone generates more raw excitement than any other performer on the Broadway and cabaret axis, with the possible exception of Liza Minnelli.

Patti LuPone, conquered show business with forceful, outsize personalities while playing by their own musical rules.

Patti LuPone appeared as the inaugural act at the Sharon L Morse Entertainment Center in The Villages, Florida, on April 30,2015, to a sold-out audience of residents mainly 55 years-of-age and older.

Patti LuPone is widely regarded as one of the greatest Broadway performers of her generation, and one of the most influential actors in musical theater.

AllMusic biographer William Ruhlmann noted that, unlike her predecessors Mary Martin and Ethel Merman, Patti LuPone was never afforded the luxury to seamlessly transition between musical productions, instead using lulls in her Broadway career to diversify her endeavors by appearing in plays, films, television, nightclubs, concert tours, and recording solo studio albums.

Patti LuPone has played many Jewish women, both on stage and screen, despite not being Jewish herself.

Patti LuPone believes she is often cast in ethnic parts because of her Italian heritage and prominent facial features, which allow her to play more interesting female roles.

Patti LuPone has performed some operatic roles, despite having no formal operatic training.

Patti LuPone has performed in several Sondheim musicals, and credits the composer with making her a better singer due to the difficulty of his material.

Patti LuPone admitted that her emotional acting choices can compromise her diction.

Patti LuPone has been labeled a diva for much of her career, which journalists attribute to both her talent and high standards, and perceived demanding temperament on and off-stage.

Patti LuPone's fanbase has been nicknamed "LuPonistas", and she has often been hired to play exaggerated versions of herself in television and film, representing "the symbol of Broadway musical theater", according to Time Out's Adam Feldman.

Patti LuPone is known for her candid and outspoken nature, a trait she attributes to her upbringing.

Patti LuPone has stated that her forthrightness has occasionally led to professional setbacks, beginning with her time promoting Evita.

Patti LuPone has expressed a disdain for red carpet events, noting that her tendency to "speak [her] truth" can be at odds with the expected decorum of such occasions.

Additionally, Patti LuPone has been outspoken about theater etiquette, frequently voicing concerns over disruptive behavior by some audience members.

In 2009, Patti LuPone's 1985 recording of "I Dreamed a Dream" reached No 45 on the UK Singles Chart It reached the Billboard magazine Hot Digital Songs and Hot Singles Recurrents charts in the US.

Patti LuPone recorded a duet with Seth MacFarlane on the 2005 album Family Guy: Live In Vegas.