Dana Robins Ivey (born August , ) is an American actress. She is a
five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, and won the
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her
work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Her film
appearances include The Color Purple (), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (),
The Addams Family (), Home Alone : Lost in New York (), Two Weeks
Notice (), Rush Hour (), and The Help ().Ivey was born in Atlanta,
Georgia. Her mother, Mary Nell Ivey Santacroce (née McKoin), was a
teacher, speech therapist, and actress who appeared in productions of
Driving Miss Daisy and taught at Georgia State University; Mary Nell
was considered by John Huston to be "one of the three or four greatest
actresses in the world." Her father, Hugh Daugherty Ivey, was a
physicist and professor who taught at Georgia Tech and later worked at
the Atomic Energy Commission. Her parents later divorced. She has a
younger brother, John, and a half-brother, Eric Santacroce, and one
nephew, Evan Santacroce from her mother's remarriage to Dante
Santacroce.She received her undergraduate degree at Rollins College in
Winter Park, Florida. She was a member of Phi Mu women's fraternity
and earned a Fulbright grant to study drama at the London Academy of
Music and Dramatic Art. She received an honorary doctorate (humane
letters) from Rollins College in February .
five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, and won the
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her
work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Her film
appearances include The Color Purple (), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (),
The Addams Family (), Home Alone : Lost in New York (), Two Weeks
Notice (), Rush Hour (), and The Help ().Ivey was born in Atlanta,
Georgia. Her mother, Mary Nell Ivey Santacroce (née McKoin), was a
teacher, speech therapist, and actress who appeared in productions of
Driving Miss Daisy and taught at Georgia State University; Mary Nell
was considered by John Huston to be "one of the three or four greatest
actresses in the world." Her father, Hugh Daugherty Ivey, was a
physicist and professor who taught at Georgia Tech and later worked at
the Atomic Energy Commission. Her parents later divorced. She has a
younger brother, John, and a half-brother, Eric Santacroce, and one
nephew, Evan Santacroce from her mother's remarriage to Dante
Santacroce.She received her undergraduate degree at Rollins College in
Winter Park, Florida. She was a member of Phi Mu women's fraternity
and earned a Fulbright grant to study drama at the London Academy of
Music and Dramatic Art. She received an honorary doctorate (humane
letters) from Rollins College in February .
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