Profile
Patricia Neal
Stage and Film Actress
Female
Born
Jan 20, 1926
Hometown
Packard, Kentucky
Died
Feb 8, 2011
Death Place
Edgartown, Massac...
Religion
Roman Catholic
Height
5' 8" (174 cm)
Nationality
American
Patricia Neal was an American actress of stage and screen. She was best known for her film roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still, wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), middle-aged… Read More
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Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Patricia Neal.
CHILDHOOD
1926
Birth
Born on January 20, 1926.
TWENTIES
After moving to New York, she accepted her first job as understudy in the Broadway production of The Voice of the Turtle. Next she appeared in Another Part of the Forest (1946), winning the 1947 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, in the first ever presentation of the Tony awards.
1950
24 Years Old
By 1950, Cooper's wife, Veronica, had found out about the relationship and sent Neal a telegram demanding they end it.
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By 1952, Neal had starred with John Garfield in The Breaking Point, The Day the Earth Stood Still with Michael Rennie and Operation Pacific, starring John Wayne.
1955
29 Years Old
In 1955, she would star in Edith Sommer's A Roomful of Roses, staged by Guthrie McClintic.
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THIRTIES
1960
34 Years Old
It should be noted that, concurrent with those high-profile projects, came a plethora of relatively routine television assignments; two, however, do stand out - a 1960 episode of Play of the Week featuring an Actors Studio-dominated cast presenting a double bill of Strindberg, as well as a British production, aired in 1959, of Clifford Odets' Clash by Night, which, almost by default, ended up co-starring one of the first generation of Actors Studio members, Nehemiah Persoff.
1963
37 Years Old
As noted, in 1963, Neal won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Hud, co-starring with Paul Newman.
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Her health took another turn in 1965, when she suffered three burst cerebral aneurysms during pregnancy, and was in a coma for three weeks.
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FIFTIES
1981
55 Years Old
In 1981, Glenda Jackson played her in a television movie, The Patricia Neal Story which co-starred Dirk Bogarde as Neal's husband Roald Dahl.
1983
57 Years Old
Neal and Dahl's turbulent marriage ended in divorce in 1983 after Dahl's affair with Neal's friend, Felicity Crosland (Dahl married Crosland that same year).
LATE ADULTHOOD
2009
83 Years Old
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In April 2009, Neal received a lifetime achievement award from WorldFest Houston on the occasion of the debut of her film, Flying By.
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2010
85 Years Old
Neal died at her home in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, August 8, 2010, of lung cancer at age 84.
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