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Eva Le Gallienne (January 11, 1899 - June 3, 1991) was a well-known actress, producer, and director, during the first half of the 20th century.

Personal life

Le Gallienne was born in London to an English poet father and a Danish feminist mother; her parents soon divorced, and she made her stage debut in 1914. She came to the United States in 1915, and appeared on Broadway, founding the Civic Repertory Theater in New York in 1926, and becoming instrumental in the success of the repertory theatre movement in the U.S.

Le Gallienne had a long term and turbulent affair with poet/writer Mercedes de Acosta. She left de Acosta after a brief affair with a film set designer named Gladys Calthrop. In 1917 she had a brief affair with actress Maude Fealy. She was also involved with actress Alla Nazimova, who was alleged to be extremely possessive of Le Gallienne. She had a long on-and-off relationship with then teenaged actress Tallulah Bankhead in the second decade of the 20th century and into the early 1920s.

She, surprisingly, had a very brief relationship with actor Basil Rathbone, by whom she initially feared she might have gotten pregnant, her only known affair with a man. Despite this affair, she was a lesbian, not a bisexual. The theater she opened in New York was funded by lesbian lover Alice DeLamar, an heiress to a Colorado gold mine.

Career

In 1964 she was presented with a special Tony Award in recognition of her 50th year as an actress and in honor of her work with the National Repertory Theatre.

Although known primarily for her theatre work (on and off the stage), she has also appeared in films and television productions. She earned an Oscar nomination for her work in the Resurrection
(1980); and won an Emmy Award for a televised version of The Royal Family after having starred in a Broadway theatre revival of that play in 1976.

She made a rare guest appearance in a 1984 episode of St. Elsewhere, appearing with Brenda Vaccaro and Blythe Danner as three women sharing a room.

She was a naturalized United States citizen. The National Endowment for the Arts recognized her with the National Medal of Arts in 1986.

She died at her home in Connecticut of natural causes, aged 92.

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