Elaine Stritch

Elaine Stritch was an American actress, singer, and comedian, known for her work on Broadway and later, television. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 and appeared in numerous stage plays, musicals, feature films and television series. Stritch was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995. Stritch made her Broadway debut in the 1946 comedy Loco. She went on to receive four Tony Award nominations for the William Inge play Bus Stop, the Noël Coward musical Sail Away, the Stephen Sondheim musical Company, and for the revival of the Edward Albee play A Delicate Balance. Her fifth nomination was for her one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty, which won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event. Stritch relocated to London in the 1970s and starred in several West End productions, including Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings and Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady. She also starred with Donald Sinden in the ITV sitcom Two's Company, which earned her a 1979 BAFTA TV Award nomination. She won an Emmy Award in 1993 for her guest role on Law & Order and another for the 2004 television documentary of her one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)