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Frances Sternhagen (born January 13, 1930) is an American actress. She was raised in Washington, D.C.

Sternhagen has appeared on and off Broadway, in movies and on TV ever since the 1950s, and today is among the leading ladies of the New York stage with major roles continuing well into her 70s.

Frances Sternhagen started her career teaching acting, singing and dancing to school children at Milton Academy in Massachusetts, and first performed herself in 1948 at a Bryn Mawr summer theater in "The Glass Menagerie" and "Angel Street," according to her .

She went on to work at Washington's Arena Stage Group from 1953-54, then had her Broadway debut in 1955 as Miss T. Muse in "The Skin of Our Teeth." The same year she had her off-Broadway debut in "Thieves' Carnival" and her TV debut in "The Great Bank Robbery" on "Omnibus" (CBS). By the following year she had won an off-Broadway for "Distinguished Performance (Actress)" in "The Admirable Bashville" (1955-56).

She has had an illustrious career in the New York theater ever since. As recorded in the , two Tony awards, for "Best Actress, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic}" in 1974 for the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's "The Good Doctor," based on Chekhov stories (which also won her a Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play"); and, for "Best Actress (Featured Role--Play)," in the 1995 revival of "The Heiress," based on the Henry James novella.

She has been nominated for Tony awards five other times, including for her roles in the original Broadway casts of "Equus" (1975) and "On Golden Pond" (1979), both later made into Oscar-nominated movies with other actresses, as well as for "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" (1972), the musical "Angel" (1978), based on Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel," and the 2002 revival of "Morning's at Seven" (with two other cast members).

Her best-known off-Broadway role was her feisty portrayal of the title character in 1987's Pulitzer prize-winning drama which she created and played for over two years at Playwright's Horizon in New York. (Jessica Tandy later won an Academy Award playing Daisy in the 1989 movie.)

Off-Broadway awards include two nominations for the for "Outstanding Actress in a Play": in 1998, for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" at the , and in 2005, for the World War I drama She also won Distinguished Performance for "The Room" and "A Slight Ache" (1964-65).

In 1998 she won the Dramatists Guild Fund's "Madge Evans & Sidney Kingsley Award for Excellence in Theater."

She is currently (as of October 2005) starring in a revival of Edward Albee's "Seascape," at Lincoln Center's Booth Theater, opening Nov. 21, 2005. (She appeared in the original Broadway production of Albee's "All Over" in 1971, with Colleen Dewhurst and Jessica Tandy.) Her previous Broadway role was in the summer 2005 production of Steel Magnolias
with Marsha Mason, Delta Burke, Christine Ebersole, Lily Rabe and Rebecca Gayheart.

Frances Sternhagen made her in 1967's New York City high school drama, . She has worked periodically in Hollywood since then. She had character roles in the 1971 classic "The Hospital," in "Two People" (1973) and in Billy Wilder's "Fedora" (1978). She acted with Burt Reynolds in "Starting Over" (1979), with Sean Connery in "Outland" (1981), with Michael J. Fox in "Bright Lights, Big City" (1988). She played Farrah Fawcett's mother in "See You In the Morning" (1989), Richard Farnsworth's wife in "Misery" (1990), and John Lithgow's psychiatrist in "Raising Cain" (1992).

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