Anna Jane "Anne" Jackson (September , â€" April , ) was an American
actress of stage, screen, and television. She was the wife of actor
Eli Wallach, with whom she often co-starred. In , she was nominated
for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her
performance in Paddy Chayefsky's Middle of the Night. In , she won an
Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in two Off-Broadway
plays, The Typists and The Tiger.Jackson was born in Millvale,
Pennsylvania in , the daughter of Stella Germaine (née Murray) and
John Ivan Jackson, a barber who ran a beauty parlor. She was the
youngest of three children, after Catherine, eight years older, and
Beatrice, three years older. Her year of birth had been misreported
for years as , the year Jackson gave in a interview. Jackson's mother
was of Irish Catholic descent and her father, whose original name was
Ivan Jchekovitch, had emigrated from Croatia in . Her family moved to
Brooklyn, New York when she was eight years old. She attended Franklin
K. Lane High School. In New York, Jackson trained at the Neighborhood
Playhouse and The Actor's Studio. She made her Broadway debut in . Her
theater credits included Summer and Smoke, Arms and the Man, Luv, The
Waltz of the Toreadors, Mr. Peters' Connections and Lost in
Yonkers.Jackson's screen credits include The Tiger Makes Out, The
Secret Life of an American Wife, How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your
Life, Lovers and Other Strangers, Dirty Dingus Magee, Folks!, and The
Shining. Her many television appearances include Armstrong Circle
Theatre, Academy Theatre, The Philco Television Playhouse, Studio One,
The Untouchables, The Defenders, Gunsmoke, Marcus Welby, M.D., Rhoda,
The Facts of Life , Highway to Heaven, Law & Order, and ER. She
narrated Stellaluna on an episode of the PBS series Reading
Rainbow.[citation needed]In March , the Harry Ransom Center announced
the acquisition of Anne Jackson's archive along with her husband's. It
will be made available to the public when cataloging is complete.
actress of stage, screen, and television. She was the wife of actor
Eli Wallach, with whom she often co-starred. In , she was nominated
for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her
performance in Paddy Chayefsky's Middle of the Night. In , she won an
Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in two Off-Broadway
plays, The Typists and The Tiger.Jackson was born in Millvale,
Pennsylvania in , the daughter of Stella Germaine (née Murray) and
John Ivan Jackson, a barber who ran a beauty parlor. She was the
youngest of three children, after Catherine, eight years older, and
Beatrice, three years older. Her year of birth had been misreported
for years as , the year Jackson gave in a interview. Jackson's mother
was of Irish Catholic descent and her father, whose original name was
Ivan Jchekovitch, had emigrated from Croatia in . Her family moved to
Brooklyn, New York when she was eight years old. She attended Franklin
K. Lane High School. In New York, Jackson trained at the Neighborhood
Playhouse and The Actor's Studio. She made her Broadway debut in . Her
theater credits included Summer and Smoke, Arms and the Man, Luv, The
Waltz of the Toreadors, Mr. Peters' Connections and Lost in
Yonkers.Jackson's screen credits include The Tiger Makes Out, The
Secret Life of an American Wife, How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your
Life, Lovers and Other Strangers, Dirty Dingus Magee, Folks!, and The
Shining. Her many television appearances include Armstrong Circle
Theatre, Academy Theatre, The Philco Television Playhouse, Studio One,
The Untouchables, The Defenders, Gunsmoke, Marcus Welby, M.D., Rhoda,
The Facts of Life , Highway to Heaven, Law & Order, and ER. She
narrated Stellaluna on an episode of the PBS series Reading
Rainbow.[citation needed]In March , the Harry Ransom Center announced
the acquisition of Anne Jackson's archive along with her husband's. It
will be made available to the public when cataloging is complete.
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