Zoe Caldwell was a four-time Tony Award winner, winning Best Featured Actress in a Play for Slapstick Tragedy, and Best Actress in a Play for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Medea, and Master Class.
11 Facts About Zoe Caldwell
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Zoe Caldwell began her career in Melbourne in the 1950s and early 1960s, performing with the newly formed Union Theatre Repertory Company.
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Zoe Caldwell emigrated to England upon being invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company at a time when Charles Laughton was attempting to revive Lear, and Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins, Albert Finney were among the other newcomers in the company.
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Zoe Caldwell played Bianca in the 1959 production of Othello, starring Paul Robeson.
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Zoe Caldwell directed, Off-Broadway, a two-woman play, created by Eileen Atkins, Vita and Virginia, based on the letters between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.
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Zoe Caldwell directed the Broadway production of Othello in the late 1970s with James Earl Jones, Christopher Plummer, and Dianne Wiest.
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Zoe Caldwell helmed the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut for two limited-run seasons as its Artistic Director in the mid-1980s.
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Zoe Caldwell performed on film, most notably as an imperious dowager in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo.
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Zoe Caldwell graduated from Methodist Ladies' College, Kew and, much later, received an honorary degree from the University of Melbourne.
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In 1970, Zoe Caldwell was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by The Queen.
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Zoe Caldwell died in Pound Ridge, New York on 16 February 2020, aged 86, of complications from Parkinson's disease.