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Actress: Anne Bancroft
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Anne Bancroft came from an Italian family: Her father was a model tailor, her mother telephonist. She made her acting training at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan. After several roles in television she 1952 he became her first film role in the temptation to 809 (Do not Bother to Knock), played a part in the even Marilyn Monroe. During filming, the production company 20th Century Fox to change their name called, because "Italiano" her or the film could be detrimental.
Ann\'s career began at the theater. In 1958, she played with Henry Fonda in the Broadway production Two for the Seesaw, for which they are distinguished with the Tony Award and in 1959 its next stage role in The Miracle Worker. The latter role brought her into Hollywood success, where she won her first 1962 Oscar as best actress. In the film she played and directed by Arthur Penn (screenwriter William Gibson), the teacher of the deaf and blind Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan Macy.
At the same time, they remained faithful to the theater, for example, in Brecht\'s Mother Courage (1963) and The Devils (1965). According to The Little Foxes and A Cry of Players (1967/68) but had for almost ten years, the soft stage, the film, until the play Golda (1977).
The play or the movie Miracle Worker was published in German under the headings of light in the dark or under different sun. Starting in 1964, more leading roles followed in films such as 7 Women (German seven women) and The Pumpkin Eater (German) The bedroom controversy in 1964 for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Award and the 1964 Cannes Film Festival awarded. Among other things, she also played in Haven with Natasha Richardson and Kenneth Welsh.
In 1967, the worldwide popularity earned her the role of Mrs. Robinson in the film The Graduate (German one The Graduate) with Dustin Hoffman as a partner, for which she was awarded in 1968, the Golden Globe. Their only directing the film was Fatso (1980), but its success was only moderate.
1964 Anne Bancroft (married her second husband), the actor and director Mel Brooks, whom she had met on a talk show. From this connection 1972 Anne\'s son Max was born. With her husband, Mel Brooks, she starred in numerous films, including 1983 in the remake of Ernst Lubitsch\'s To be or not (To Be or Not to Be). Her comedic talent but they also demonstrated outside the film by Mel Brooks, for example in The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) (German, the nerve bundles) at the side of her film partner Jack Lemmon.
The actress was also in the age to an estimated Actress strong and sometimes bizarre women\'s roles. So they played in 1995 under the direction of Jodie Foster in an all-star ensemble, the abundance of eccentric mother, Adele, Robert Downey Jr. and Holly Hunter in Home for the Holidays, which alongside her husband, Charles Durning, family life does not make it any easier. Also in Faith is everything! (2000), they embodied a strong mother, her son, a Jewish rabbi (Ben Stiller), the apparent "ménage à trois" with Jenna Elfman and Edward Norton first takes a very bad, but ultimately conciliatory response. One of their most impressive achievements was during the later years of her career, the role of a mother of a transvestite stars in The Cuckoo\'s Egg (1988), which can not comprehend that her son\'s homosexuality can be seen as something normal.
Anne Bancroft died at the age of 73 years in New York\'s Mount Sinai Hospital of uterine cancer.
Born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano
September 17, 1931
The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Died June 6, 2005 (aged 73)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Spouse(s) Martin May (1953–1957)
Mel Brooks (1964–2005) (her death)
Awards
Academy Awards as Best Actress:
1963: Won the light in the darkness
1965: Nominated bedroom dispute
1968: Nominated The Graduate
1978: Nominated The Turning Point
1986: Nominated Agnes - Angel in fire
Golden Globe
1963: nominated as best actress for light in the darkness
1965: Won fürSchlafzimmerstreit as best actress
1968: Won as best actress in The Graduate
1978: nominated as best actress for The Turning Point
1984: nominated as best actress for being or not being
1985: nominated as best actress for The Divine
1986: nominated for Best Actress for Agnes - Angel in fire
1987: nominated as best actress for Night, Mother
BAFTA
1963: Won as best actress for light in the darkness
1965: Won as best actress for the bedroom dispute
1969: nominated as best actress for The Graduate
1973: nominated as best actress for The young lion
1976: nominated as best actress for The nerve bundles
1979: nominated as best actress for The Turning Point
1988: Won as best actress for Between the Lines
Among Numerous other film awards like Emmys, a Tony, she was once previously nominated for her Razzie Award.
Anne Bancroft has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 6368 Hollywood Blvd.
Theater Roles
Two for the Seesaw (1958)
The Miracle Worker (1959)
Mother Courage and Her Children (1963)
The Devils (1965)
The Little Foxes (1967)
A Cry of Players (1968)
Golda (1977)
Duet for One (1981)
Occupant (2002)
Television
1967: I\'m Getting Married
1977: Jesus of Nazareth (miniseries)
1982: Marco Polo (mini series)
1990: sold Freddie and Max (for 2 months)
1992: Broadway Bound
1992: Mrs. Cage
1994: Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994: The Mother
1996: Homecoming
1999: Deep in My Heart
2001: Haven
2003: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
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