Tammy Grimes
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| Born | Tammy Lee Grimes January 30, 1934 Lynn, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Occupation | Actress, singer | ||||||
| Spouse(s) | Christopher Plummer (1956-1960) Jeremy Slate (1966-1967) |
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Tammy Lee Grimes[1] (born January 30, 1934) is an American award-winning actress and singer.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Grimes was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Eola Willard (née Niles), a naturalist and spiritualist, and Nicholas Luther Grimes, an innkeeper, country club manager, and farmer.[1] She attended high school at the then-all girls school, Beaver Country Day School, in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and then studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse.
[edit] Career
Grimes made her debut on the New York stage in May 1955 in Jonah and the Whale. In 1956, she appeared in the off-Broadway production, The Littlest Revue , and had the lead role in the 1959 Noel Coward play Look After Lulu.
She starred in the 1960 musical comedy The Unsinkable Molly Brown for which she won a Tony Award portraying the title character, a Western mining millionairess who survived the sinking of the Titanic.
In 1966, Grimes starred in her own ABC television series, The Tammy Grimes Show, in which she played a modern-day heiress who loved to spend money, but it ran for only a month, although an additional six episodes had already been made; earlier, she had turned down the role of Samantha Stephens on Bewitched for which she had had right of first refusal.
During her career, she spent several seasons at the Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario and has appeared in a number of television series and motion pictures. Grimes has also entertained at various New York city night clubs and recorded several albums of songs. Her voice can be heard in romantic duets on some of Ben Bagley's anthology albums of Broadway songs under his Painted Smiles record label. In 1982, she hosted the final season of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
In 2003, Grimes was inducted into the (American) Theater Hall of Fame.
[edit] Personal life
Grimes married Canadian actor Christopher Plummer in 1956, with whom she had a daughter, actress Amanda Plummer. They were divorced in 1960. She was married briefly to the actor Jeremy Slate.
Active in American politics, she is a member of the Republican Party.
[edit] Awards
- Theatre World Award - Look After Lulu (1959)
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical - The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1961)
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play - Private Lives (1970)
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Grimes released three known one-off singles during the 1960's, none of which charted:
- "Home Sweet Heaven"/"You'd Better Love Me" (ABC 10551) 1964, from High Spirits
- "The Big Hurt"/"Nobody Needs Your Love More Than I Do" (Reprise 0487) 1966
- "I Really Loved Harold"/"Father O'Conner" (Buddah 99) 1969
She recorded two albums in the early 1960's, which were re-released in one album in 2004,The Unmistakable Tammy Grimes.
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