Patricia oneal actress interviews biography
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Oscar-Winning Actress Patricia Neal Dies At Age 84
Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced actress who won an Academy Award for 's "Hud" and then survived several strokes to continue acting, died on Sunday. She was
Neal had lung cancer and died surrounded by her family at her home in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard.
"She faced her final illness as she had all of the many trials she endured: with indomitable grace, good humor and a great deal of her self-described stubbornness," her family said in a statement.
Neal was already an award-winning Broadway actress when she won her Oscar for her role as a housekeeper to the Texas father (Melvyn Douglas) battling his selfish, amoral son (Paul Newman).
Less than two years later, she suffered a series of strokes in at age Her struggle to once again walk and talk is regarded as epic in the annals of stroke rehabilitation. She returned to the screen to earn another Oscar nomination and three Emmy nominations.
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Having studios in different countries, how do the cultural differences between the USA, France, and Mexico influence your artistic process and themes?
The contrast between the different countries, I associate LA and New York as different counties. Los Angeles for me was associated with cars, films, and the HOLLYWOOD culture. New York reflects the world, that is where I received my ART education both in and out of school. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is where I did independent studies in their drawing room where one was allowed to request any drawing that was not on exhibition to be set in front of us (not to touch). I often copied Millet’s humble depiction of French peasants and Francisco de Goya’s emotional depictions Los Disasters de la Guerra and some of his Los Caprichos. Goya was to have a significant influence on my imagination.
France is where I was able to create the visual interpretation Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus: living in the countrysi
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Patricia Neal dies at 84; Oscar-winning actress found triumphs in a life of tragedies
Her life was marked by professional triumphs, including a Tony Award-winning debut on huvudgata in Lillian Hellman’s teaterpjäs “Another Part of the Forest” and a best actress Oscar for her role in the teaterpjäs “Hud.”
But for Patricia Neal, the husky-voiced actress with a strong screen presence, life also was marked bygd personal tragedies: the death of one of her children and brain damage to another, and her own battle to overcome the debilitating effects of a ruptured aneurysm in her brain in that temporarily halted her career.
“Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison,” Neal wrote in her autobiography, “As inom Am.”
Neal, 84, died of lung cancer Sunday at her home in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha’s Vineyard. But in the end, she told family members who had gathered around her the night before: “I’ve had a lovely time.”
Neal’s daughter Ophe