Four-time Tony Award winner Zoe Calwell dead at 86 after battle with Parkinson’s disease
ACTRESS Zoe Caldwell passed away on Sunday at the age of 86.
The four-time Tony Award winner died at her home in Pound Ridge, N.Y., in Westchester County.
Her son, Charlie Whitehead, said the Australian-born actress died from complications due to her Parkinson’s disease.
Zoe – who was born in 1933 – made her theater debut at the age of nine with a role in Peter Pan.
She continued her career as a performer for regional theater in Australia before moving on to England and tackling some Shakespeare roles.
She opened up about her work ethic back then and said that she wouldn’t turn down any jobs.
She told The Associated Press: “I was always afraid of growing comfortable, so I would jump from job to job, whatever I was offered.
“I would go from Stratford-on-Avon to a small repertory company and back to London.”
Zoe finally made her debut in Broadway in 1965 after replacing actress Anne Bancroft in The Devils.
The actress went on to appear in Tennessee Williams’ Slapstick Tragedy the following year, which won her a Tony Award for best-featured actress in a play.
She went on to win three more Tony Awards for her performances in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Medea and Master Class.
Zoe also dived into movies and televisions with one of her most notable roles in Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and the 2011 movie Extremely Loud and Dangerously Close.
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The actress was married to theater producer Robert Whitehead from 1968 until his death in 2002.
They worked together throughout their Broadway career and she won three of Tony’s with his plays.
She is survived by her two sons, Sam and Charlie Whitehead, as well as her two grandchildren Ross and Ward Whitehead.
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