Zoe Caldwell, 4-Time Tony Winner, Dies at 86
Zoe Caldwell, an Australian actress with a expertise for illuminating the human facet of imposing icons akin to Cleopatra and Maria Callas in a profession that netted her 4 Tony Awards, died on Sunday attributable to issues from Parkinson’s illness, in keeping with her son Santorini Whitehead. She was 86.
Caldwell often appeared in tv and in movie, however was finest recognized for her Broadway performances. She originated the function of getting older diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s “Grasp Class” (1995), portrayed the vengeful and filicidal title character in “Medea” (1982), and performed a Scottish college trainer with a passion for fascism in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1968). Caldwell gained Tonys for all three performances, in addition to one other for “Slapstick Tragedy,” a 1966 double-bill of Tennessee Williams one-act performs. She additionally starred as Lillian Hellman on Broadway in 1986’s “Lillian” and appeared reverse Christopher Plummer in a 1967 manufacturing of Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” in Stratford, Ontario.
On display, Caldwell had supporting turns in “The Purple Rose of Cairo” (1985) and “Extraordinarily Loud & Extremely Shut” (2011). She was additionally recognized to a youthful technology of viewers because the voice of the Grand Councilwoman, the chief of the United Galactic Federation, within the “Lilo & Sew” franchise.
Caldwell was born Sept. 14, 1933 in Melbourne, Australia, to Edgar Caldwell, a plumber and ballroom bouncer, and Zoe Hivon, a dancer. She moved to London to affix the Royal Shakespeare Firm in 1959 and commenced her American profession as an unique member of the corporate on the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
Caldwell married theatre producer and director Robert Whitehead in 1968. They had been collectively till his demise in 2002. She is survived by two sons, Sam and Santorini Whitehead; and grandchildren Ross and Ward Whitehead.
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