Lindsay Ann Crouse (born May 12, 1948) is an American actress. She
made her Broadway debut in the 1972 revival of Much Ado About Nothing
and appeared in her first film in 1976 in All the President's Men. For
her role in the 1984 film Places in the Heart, she received an Academy
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include
Slap Shot (1977), Between the Lines (1977), The Verdict (1982),
Prefontaine (1997), and The Insider (1999). She also had a leading
role in the 1987 film House of Games, which was directed by her
then-husband David Mamet. In 1996, she received a Daytime Emmy Award
nomination for "Between Mother and Daughter", an episode of CBS
Schoolbreak Special. She is also a Grammy Award nominee.Crouse was
born in New York City, the daughter of Anna (née Erskine) and Russel
Crouse, a playwright. Her maternal grandparents were author and
educator John Erskine and his wife Pauline Ives. Lindsay Ann Crouse's
full name is an intentional tribute to the Broadway writing
partnership of Lindsay and Crouse, which consisted of her father and
his writing partner, Howard Lindsay. The two wrote much of The Sound
of Music. Their 1946 play State of the Union won that year's Pulitzer
Prize for Drama. Their last collaboration was Mr. President in 1962.
"In our family, the work ethic was held up as some kind of byword,"
Crouse says. "At any hour, somebody's typewriter was going."After
graduating from the Chapin School in 1966 and Radcliffe College in
1970, Crouse began her performing career as a modern and jazz dancer,
but she soon switched to acting and made her Broadway debut in Much
Ado About Nothing in 1972. She received her acting training at HB
Studio in New York City.
made her Broadway debut in the 1972 revival of Much Ado About Nothing
and appeared in her first film in 1976 in All the President's Men. For
her role in the 1984 film Places in the Heart, she received an Academy
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include
Slap Shot (1977), Between the Lines (1977), The Verdict (1982),
Prefontaine (1997), and The Insider (1999). She also had a leading
role in the 1987 film House of Games, which was directed by her
then-husband David Mamet. In 1996, she received a Daytime Emmy Award
nomination for "Between Mother and Daughter", an episode of CBS
Schoolbreak Special. She is also a Grammy Award nominee.Crouse was
born in New York City, the daughter of Anna (née Erskine) and Russel
Crouse, a playwright. Her maternal grandparents were author and
educator John Erskine and his wife Pauline Ives. Lindsay Ann Crouse's
full name is an intentional tribute to the Broadway writing
partnership of Lindsay and Crouse, which consisted of her father and
his writing partner, Howard Lindsay. The two wrote much of The Sound
of Music. Their 1946 play State of the Union won that year's Pulitzer
Prize for Drama. Their last collaboration was Mr. President in 1962.
"In our family, the work ethic was held up as some kind of byword,"
Crouse says. "At any hour, somebody's typewriter was going."After
graduating from the Chapin School in 1966 and Radcliffe College in
1970, Crouse began her performing career as a modern and jazz dancer,
but she soon switched to acting and made her Broadway debut in Much
Ado About Nothing in 1972. She received her acting training at HB
Studio in New York City.
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