Kathleen Chalfant

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Kathleen Chalfant
Born Kathleen Ann Bishop
(1945-01-14) January 14, 1945 (age 79)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1987–present

Kathleen Chalfant (born January 14, 1945) is an American actress.

Life and career

Chalfant was born as Kathleen Ann Bishop[1][2] in San Francisco, California, and was raised in her parents' boarding house in Oakland. Her father, William Bishop, was an officer in the Coast Guard. She studied acting with Wynn Handman, who was a protégé of Sanford Meisner and with Alessandro Fersen in Rome, Italy.

Chalfant made her Off-Broadway debut as Production Coordinator for Demons: A Possession by Robert Karmon at Playwrights Horizons in 1974.[3] She made her acting debut at Playwrights Horizons in Cowboy Pictures in June 1974[4] She has since gone on to appear in many Off-Broadway productions. In 2015 she appears in the Women's Project Theater production of Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl.[5]

Chalfant was nominated for Broadway's 1993 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for her role in Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. She earned kudos for her performance as Vivian Bearing in Margaret Edson's play Wit; she shaved her head for the role.[6] During her work with Wit, she incorporated her experiences dealing with terminal cancer of her half-brother, Alan Palmer, who died in 1998.[7] Her awards for her performance include the Outer Circle Critics, Drama Desk, Obie and Lucille Lortel awards.

For her 2003 performance in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads,[8] Chalfant won a second Obie award. In 2009, Chalfant performed in The People Speak,[9] a documentary feature film [10] utilizing dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

Chalfant starred in an independent feature film, Isn't It Delicious?. She played Margaret Tilden during the first season of House of Cards.[11]

Chalfant is currently playing Margaret Butler in Showtime's, The Affair.[12]

Personal life

In 1966, Chalfant married Henry Chalfant, a photographer and documentary filmmaker. They have a son, David Chalfant, who was the bass player for the folk-rock band, The Nields, and a daughter, Andromache, a set designer in New York.

Political life

Chalfant endorsed cultural boycott of Israel in a youtube video published on November 17, 2015.[13]

Filmography

References

  1. Search: Kathleen Bishop at familytreelegends.com; accessed April 3, 2014.
  2. California Birth Records info.; accessed April 3, 2014.
  3. Demons: A Possession lortel.org, accessed December 18, 2015
  4. Cowboy Pictures lortel.org, accessed December 18, 2015
  5. Dear Elizabeth lortel.org, accessed December 18, 2015
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  11. Kathleen Chalfant at the Internet Movie Database
  12. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149910/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t15
  13. Prominent Artists Endorse the Cultural Boycott of Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMM0AZ9eWA

External links

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