Hallie Foote (born March 31, 1950) is an American actress.Born Barbara
Hallie Foote in Manhattan, the daughter of Lillian Vallish Foote and
writer and director Horton Foote, she was raised in Nyack, New York
and New Hampshire. She began her stage career in 1986 when she was
cast in the title role of her father's off-Broadway play The Widow
Claire, which featured Matthew Broderick, Dan Butler, and Sarah
Michelle Gellar. Father and daughter later collaborated on Talking
Pictures, Night Seasons, Laura Dennis, When They Speak of Rita, The
Last of the Thorntons, The Carpetbagger's Children, The Day Emily
Married, The Trip to Bountiful, for which she won the Lucille Lortel
Award for Outstanding Featured Actress and was nominated for the Outer
Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, and
Dividing the Estate, for which she won the 2008 Richard Seff Award and
was nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a
Featured Actress in a Play. She was appearing in the Hartford Stage
production of her father's theatrical adaptation of the Harper Lee
novel To Kill a Mockingbird when he died. She appeared in The Orphans'
Home Cycle off-Broadway in 2009, receiving an Outer Critics Circle
Award nomination, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. In 2012,
Foote appeared as Dolores and Mrs. Crawford in the off-Broadway
production of Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote with Primary
Stages. She then appeared as Pauline in the Primary Stages production
of Him.Foote also won the Obie Award in 1993 and the Drama League
Award in 2000 and 2002 and was nominated for the 1995 Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for The Horton Foote
Plays.Foote's movie career has been limited to small roles in
C.H.U.D., Walking to the Waterline, Friends with Money, and Paranormal
Activity 3, among others. Her television appearances include Miami
Vice, Murder, She Wrote, and Law & Order and the television movies The
Habitation of Dragons and Alone, both written by her father.
Hallie Foote in Manhattan, the daughter of Lillian Vallish Foote and
writer and director Horton Foote, she was raised in Nyack, New York
and New Hampshire. She began her stage career in 1986 when she was
cast in the title role of her father's off-Broadway play The Widow
Claire, which featured Matthew Broderick, Dan Butler, and Sarah
Michelle Gellar. Father and daughter later collaborated on Talking
Pictures, Night Seasons, Laura Dennis, When They Speak of Rita, The
Last of the Thorntons, The Carpetbagger's Children, The Day Emily
Married, The Trip to Bountiful, for which she won the Lucille Lortel
Award for Outstanding Featured Actress and was nominated for the Outer
Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, and
Dividing the Estate, for which she won the 2008 Richard Seff Award and
was nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a
Featured Actress in a Play. She was appearing in the Hartford Stage
production of her father's theatrical adaptation of the Harper Lee
novel To Kill a Mockingbird when he died. She appeared in The Orphans'
Home Cycle off-Broadway in 2009, receiving an Outer Critics Circle
Award nomination, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. In 2012,
Foote appeared as Dolores and Mrs. Crawford in the off-Broadway
production of Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote with Primary
Stages. She then appeared as Pauline in the Primary Stages production
of Him.Foote also won the Obie Award in 1993 and the Drama League
Award in 2000 and 2002 and was nominated for the 1995 Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for The Horton Foote
Plays.Foote's movie career has been limited to small roles in
C.H.U.D., Walking to the Waterline, Friends with Money, and Paranormal
Activity 3, among others. Her television appearances include Miami
Vice, Murder, She Wrote, and Law & Order and the television movies The
Habitation of Dragons and Alone, both written by her father.
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