Kim Stanley (born Patricia Reid; February , â€" August , ) was an
American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with
occasional film performances.She began her acting career in theatre,
and subsequently attended the Actors Studio in New York City, New
York. She received the Theatre World Award for her role in The Chase
(), and starred in the Broadway productions of Picnic () and Bus Stop
(). Stanley was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a
Play for her roles in A Touch of the Poet () and A Far Country ().In
the s Stanley was a prolific performer in television; she later
progressed to film, with a well-received performance in The Goddess
(). She was the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird (), and starred in
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (), for which she won the New York Film
Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actress. She was less active during the
remainder of her career; two of her later film successes were as the
mother of Frances Farmer in Frances (), for which she received a
nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and as
Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (). Stanley received a Primetime Emmy
Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress â€" Miniseries or a Movie for
her performance as Big Mama in a television adaptation of Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof in . That same year, she was inducted into the American
Theatre Hall of Fame.Stanley was born in Tularosa, New Mexico, the
daughter of Ann (née Miller), an interior decorator, and J. T. Reid,
a professor of philosophy and education at the University of New
Mexico, located in Albuquerque. Her father was of Irish or Scottish
descent, born and raised in Texas, where he met her mother (who was of
German and English ancestry). She had three brothers (Howard Clinton
Reid, a psychiatrist; Kenneth Reid, killed in pilot training during
World War II; and Justin Truman Reid, a lawyer); and a half-sister
(Carol Ann Reid). She was a drama major at the University of New
Mexico, and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse and adopted her
maternal grandmother's surname as her stage name.
American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with
occasional film performances.She began her acting career in theatre,
and subsequently attended the Actors Studio in New York City, New
York. She received the Theatre World Award for her role in The Chase
(), and starred in the Broadway productions of Picnic () and Bus Stop
(). Stanley was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a
Play for her roles in A Touch of the Poet () and A Far Country ().In
the s Stanley was a prolific performer in television; she later
progressed to film, with a well-received performance in The Goddess
(). She was the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird (), and starred in
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (), for which she won the New York Film
Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actress. She was less active during the
remainder of her career; two of her later film successes were as the
mother of Frances Farmer in Frances (), for which she received a
nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and as
Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (). Stanley received a Primetime Emmy
Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress â€" Miniseries or a Movie for
her performance as Big Mama in a television adaptation of Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof in . That same year, she was inducted into the American
Theatre Hall of Fame.Stanley was born in Tularosa, New Mexico, the
daughter of Ann (née Miller), an interior decorator, and J. T. Reid,
a professor of philosophy and education at the University of New
Mexico, located in Albuquerque. Her father was of Irish or Scottish
descent, born and raised in Texas, where he met her mother (who was of
German and English ancestry). She had three brothers (Howard Clinton
Reid, a psychiatrist; Kenneth Reid, killed in pilot training during
World War II; and Justin Truman Reid, a lawyer); and a half-sister
(Carol Ann Reid). She was a drama major at the University of New
Mexico, and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse and adopted her
maternal grandmother's surname as her stage name.
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