Born: 14 September 1933, Australia
Died: 16 February 2020
Country most active: United States, United Kingdom
Also known as: NA
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Zoe Ada Caldwell (b. Sept. 14,1933, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia – d. Feb. 16, 2020, Pound Ridge, N.Y.) was an Australian-born American/U.K. actress celebrated mostly for her stage work on Broadway. Earlier in Caldwell’s acting career, she emigrated to England at the invitation to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. Caldwell won four Tony awards on Broadway, for her performances in “Slapstick Tragedy,” by Tennessee Williams (1966), and as Muriel Spark’s “Miss Jean Brodie” (1968), Euripides’ “Medea” (1982) and Terrence McNally’s Maria Callas in ‘Master Class” (1995). She was appointed OBE in 1970. Caldwell’s acting and directing career included engagements in three continents. For two seasons in the mid-1980s, Caldwell served as the Artistic Director of the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut. She was a life member of the Actors Studio in New York. Highlights of her film credits include “The Purple Rose of Cairo” (Woody Allen, 1985), “Birth” (Jonathan Glazer, 2004), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Stephen Daldry, 2011), and the voice of the Grand Councilwoman in the animated Lilo & Stitch franchise (including the television series). In 2001, she wrote an autobiography entitled “I will be Cleopatra.”