Beatrice Straight
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| Known for: |
Poltergeist, The Nun's Story, Network |
| Birth name: |
Beatrice Whitney Straight |
| Birthday: |
2 August 1914,
Old Westbury, New York, USA |
| Height: |
5' 7" 1.70 m |

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Sister of Michael Straight (writer and editor of The New Republic).

Wife of actor Peter Cookson.

At her death, her son, Tony Cookson, said that although some reference books listed her birth year as 1918, it was actually 1914, making her 86 when she died.

Won Broadway's 1953 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "The Crucible."

In the 1940s she co-founded Theatre, Inc., which instigated the US visit of the Old Vic Company.

Brother Michael Straight was publisher of "The New Republic." He was married three times. His second wife was Nina Auchincloss Steers, writer and step-sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the half-sister of writer Gore Vidal.

Father Willard Straight was an investment banker who died of septic pneumonia while serving in France in 1919. Mother, heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney, subsequently married British educationist who founded Dartington Hall School in Devon. Beatrice moved with her family to England in 1925.
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