Beatrice Straight

Beatrice Straight

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Birthday: 
2 August 1914, Old Westbury, New York, USA
Birth Name: 
Beatrice Whitney Straight
Height: 
170 cm
In her long career, Beatrice Straight actually did very little work in the movies, plying her trade mostly onstage. But when she did grace the silver screen, she did it with great skill. Her first love was theater, having debuted on Broadway in the 1935 "Bitter Oleander". Her work garnered her much acclaim, including laurels in her Tony-w... Show more »
In her long career, Beatrice Straight actually did very little work in the movies, plying her trade mostly onstage. But when she did grace the silver screen, she did it with great skill. Her first love was theater, having debuted on Broadway in the 1935 "Bitter Oleander". Her work garnered her much acclaim, including laurels in her Tony-winning performance for which she won the award for best supporting actress as Elizabeth Proctor in the 1953 production of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible". In addition to theater and movies, she gave us notable work on television. In 1978, she won an Emmy nomination for her part as the matriarch Alice Dain Leggett in the miniseries The Dain Curse (1978). No less stately, she played the part of Lynda Carter's Queen Mother in the 1970s Wonder Woman (1975) series. Her life was touched by that same kind of elegance and stateliness that she often portrayed onstage and on-screen. She was born Beatrice Whitney Straight in Old Westbury on Long Island. Her father, banker and diplomat Willard Dickerman Straight, associated with the likes of J.P. Morgan. Her mother, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight, was an heiress of the Whitneys, a dynastic (in the sense of TV's own "Dynasty"), moneyed family on the eastern seaboard. Beatrice went to the best schools and caught the acting bug while a student in Devonshire, England, rendering a critically acclaimed performance in a school production of Ibsen's "A Doll's House." Her studies subsequently turned to acting, and she studied under the tutelage of Michael Chekhov, nephew of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov and a member of the Moscow Art Theatre. Their relationship was somewhat symbiotic in that she persuaded him to start an acting school, later teaching there herself. It was through her work in the theater that she met her husband Peter Cookson, appearing opposite him as leading lady in "The Heiress" in 1948. She is perhaps best known for her achievement in the 1976 movie Network (1976); after only three days of work in that movie in just a few scenes that actually made it into the final cut, Beatrice Straight contributed such a stellar performance that she earned the Academy Award for the best performance by a supporting actress. Show less «

Beatrice Straight's FILMOGRAPHY

Deceived

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St. Elsewhere - Season 6

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St. Elsewhere - Season 5

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St. Elsewhere - Season 4

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St. Elsewhere - Season 3

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Faerie Tale Theatre - Season 2

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St. Elsewhere - Season 2

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Two of a Kind

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Faerie Tale Theatre - Season 1

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St. Elsewhere - Season 1

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Poltergeist 1

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Endless Love

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The Promise

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Wonder Woman - Season 3

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Wonder Woman - Season 2

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Network

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Wonder Woman - Season 1

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Mission: Impossible - Season 7

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Mission: Impossible - Season 6

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Mission: Impossible - Season 5

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Mission: Impossible - Season 4

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Mission: Impossible - Season 3

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Mission: Impossible - Season 2

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Beatrice Straight'S roles

Dr. Lesh
Dr. Lesh
Louise Schumacher
Louise Schumacher