SADA Thompson, the sustainable matriarch of theatre and film which won an Emmy Award and a Tony Award for her portraits of three sisters and their mother in 1971 "twigs" comedy to play forever mother understanding in the television series "family" died at the age of 81.
Thompson died Wednesday of a lung disease at the Danbury, officer David Shaul hospital, said Sunday in Los Angeles.
Thompson has won wide acclaim during a brilliant career that spans more than 60 years, during which she gravitated towards quality work which allowed him to explore the complexities of his characters.
"When you start acting, it seems not very romantic, and the imaginary part of everything seems very exciting," she told the Los Angeles Times in 1991. "" "". It is later you begin to complete the work fascinating how is - that is a hole without bottom, and you never get at the end of it. Human character is just endlessly fascinating. ?
Before even that she received the Carnegie Mellon of Pittsburgh University in 1949, and then calls the Carnegie Institute of Technology, she was on a trajectory to take on challenging roles from the classics and drama contemporary.
A prolific actress, she has made her mark in theatre and films usually portraying matriarchs of dramas families.
In his debut on stage in 1945, she played Ma of Nick's William Saroyan "in the time of your life." It was Mrs. Higgins in "pygmalion" (1949), the matriarch resentment determined to not interfere in the "real estate" (1987), the embattled Mrs Fisher comedy 1991 "frimeur The," the mother slovenly and amer, Beatrice, in the production of 1965 "The effect of the gamma on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds" and Dorine in "Tartuffe" (1965). It collects two Obies for the latter.
By far his biggest Broadway success was "Twigs," by George Furth, in which she plays three sisters - and their mother. The piece took its title from a line by Alexander Pope: "just as the twig is bent, the tree of the inclined." She won a Tony and the New York Drama Critics Award this season.
The New York Times Walter Kerr noted that what kept the piece was "brightness special moves with Miss Thompson everywhere where it is going".
Throughout his career, his choice has recognition of other players that they made him famous.
"When you are around major players (such as Thompson), they become an ideal or goal keeps remind you the quality you want that your work to be," William Anton, who played the son of Thompson in the production of San Diego in 1989 for "driving Miss Daisy" and preferred "the" frimeur son-in-law said the Los Angeles Times in 1991.
In the end of the 1970s, it has picked up an Emmy Award for his interpretation of the Kate Lawrence weighted in the drama of the "Family" ABC, which lasted five seasons.
Born Sada Carolyn Thompson on September 27, 1929, in Des Moines, Iowa, she got its unusual name from his maternal grandmother, whose name, Sarah, was transformed into Sada. His parents moved to New Jersey, when she was 5, and his fascination with the stage began shortly after. His parents would often take to a summer theatre where parts would stop on their way to Broadway or before starting their national tours.
"I saw stars as Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner," she told Associated Press in 1987. "It was enchanting." I knew that it was the world that I wanted to be in. ?
In 1956, she won a Drama Desk Award for "The Misanthrope of Moliere" and for an English girl mourns the death of his half-brother in war in "the River line" (1957). She has been nominated for an Emmy Award for her role as mother of Carla comedy NBC "cheers" (1991).
She loved a good character role, Thompson said.
"There is always something more to be done with a character," she told the AP in 1987. "Theater is a human experience." It is nothing of shellacked or ends on this subject. I guess this is why it still attracts me back. ?
Thompson met and married a fellow Theatre student, Donald Stewart, at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949. Their daughter is a costume designer.
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