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Anne Bancroft is a Actor, Director and Writer American born on 17 september 1931 at New York City (USA)

Anne Bancroft

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Birth name Anna Maria Louisa Italiano
Nationality USA
Birth 17 september 1931 at New York City (USA)
Death 6 june 2005 (at 73 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Actress

Anna Maria Louisa Italiano (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005), known professionally as Anne Bancroft, was an American actress associated with the Method acting school, where she studied under Lee Strasberg. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft was acknowledged for her work in film, theatre and television. She won one Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globes, two Tony Awards and two Emmy Awards, and several other awards and nominations.

After her film debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) and a string of supporting film roles during the 1950s, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her lead role in The Miracle Worker (1962) as the teacher of teenage Helen Keller, reprising her role in the Broadway stage play. She won both an Oscar for her work in the film, and a Tony for the same role in the play. On Broadway in 1965, she played a medieval nun obsessed with a priest (Jason Robards) in John Whiting's play The Devils, based on the Aldous Huxley novel The Devils of Loudun. She was perhaps best known as the seductress, Mrs. Robinson, in The Graduate (1967), a role that she later stated had come to overshadow her other work.

Bancroft received several other Oscar nominations and continued in lead roles until the late 1980s.
She played a ballet dancer in The Turning Point (1977), and in Agnes of God she played the mother superior of a convent who clashes with a psychiatrist played by Jane Fonda over dealings with a troubled young novice nun played by Meg Tilly. In 1987, she starred with Anthony Hopkins in 84 Charing Cross Road. She appeared in several movies directed or produced by her second husband, comedian Mel Brooks, including the award-winning drama The Elephant Man as well as comedies To Be or Not to Be and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

In the 1990s she returned to supporting roles in films, but continued to play lead roles in television films. She received Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, for The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003), as well as an Emmy nomination for 2001's Haven.

Bancroft died of uterine cancer in 2005 at the age of 73. She is survived by her mother, sisters, husband Mel Brooks, and son Max Brooks.

Biography

Anna Maria Louisa Italiano est née le 17 septembre 1931 à New York, dans le quartier du Bronx, dans une famille d'immigrés italiens. Après des études scientifiques qui devaient la destiner au métier de laborantine, elle débute à la télévision (CBS) sous le nom de Anne Marno.

Engagée par Darryl Zanuck pour la 20th Century Fox, elle débute au cinéma en 1952 dans Troublez-moi ce soir de Roy Ward Baker aux côtés de Marilyn Monroe et Richard Widmark.

En 1963, elle obtient l'Oscar de la meilleure actrice pour son rôle dans Miracle en Alabama (absente de la cérémonie, elle laisse Joan Crawford la récupérer en son nom).

En 1964, elle épouse Mel Brooks, avec qui elle tourne plusieurs films, notamment To Be or Not to Be en 1983 ou Dracula, mort et heureux de l'être en 1995 aux côtés de Leslie Nielsen.

Elle est connue du public, entre autres, pour son rôle de Mrs. Robinson dans le film Le Lauréat (1967) de Mike Nichols, au côté d’un débutant du nom de Dustin Hoffman. Elle a aussi marqué les esprits en tenant le premier rôle féminin d'Elephant Man de David Lynch, et en jouant la mère juive (et envahissante) de Harvey Fierstein dans Torch Song Trilogy.

Elle meurt d'un cancer de l'utérus le 6 juin 2005 à l'Hôpital du Mont Sinaï, à New York.