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Known for:	Santa Barbara, Rebecca, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Birth name:	Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson
Birthday:	10 February 1897, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

She was made a British Dame in 1959. Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1986. Made her TV soap opera debut in 1984 as the grande dame, Minx Lockridge, in Santa Barbara (which happens to be her home town). Won the 1948 Tony award for Best Actress in a Dramatic Play for her performance as "Medea". In 1959, she played the role on television, and in a 1983 telecast of the play, she played the supporting role of the Nurse. It is said that conductor Arturo Toscanini was so carried away by her performance in the title role of "Medea" on Broadway that he nearly fell out of his stage box while applauding. Won Broadway's 1948 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for playing the title role in "Medea" -- an award shared with Katharine Cornell for "Antony and Cleopatra" and Jessica Tandy for "A Streetcar Named Desire." In 1959, she played the same role on television. In 1982, she received a Tony nomination as Best Actress (Featured Role--Play) for playing the supporting role of the Nurse in "Medea," repeating that performance in a 1983 telecast of the play. The first, and perhaps the only, actress to win two Emmy Awards for playing the same role (Lady Macbeth) in two separate television productions of the same play, the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", staged and broadcast in 1954 and 1960, with the same leading actor (Maurice Evans).

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