Fictional character in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire
Fictional character
Blanche DuBois
Jessica Tandy (left, with Kim Hunter and Marlon Brando) created the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and received a Tony Award
First appearance
A Streetcar Named Desire
Created by
Tennessee Williams
Portrayed by
Gillian Anderson Ann-Margret Tallulah Bankhead Cate Blanchett Blythe Danner Gretchen Egolf Renée Fleming Uta Hagen Rosemary Harris Isabelle Huppert Yvonne Kenny Maria Kraakman Jessica Lange Vivien Leigh Lois Nettleton Carrie Nye Angelica Page Geraldine Page Nicole Ari Parker Maxine Peake Natasha Richardson Amy Ryan Jessica Tandy Rachel Weisz
In-universe information
Gender
Female
Occupation
High school English teacher
Family
Stella DuBois (sister) Stanley Kowalski (brother-in-law)
Spouse
Allan Grey (deceased)
Relatives
Jessie (cousin, deceased)
Blanche DuBois (married name Grey) is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire. The character was written for Tallulah Bankhead and made popular to later audiences with Elia Kazan's 1951 film adaptation of Williams' play; A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando.
BlancheDuBois (married name Grey) is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire. The character...
(née DuBois) is one of the main characters in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. She is the younger sister of central character Blanche DuBois...
Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of BlancheDuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal...
204 episodes across the two series. The character was inspired by BlancheDuBois (to whom Blanche Devereaux is compared in the pilot script) and Scarlett O'Hara...
first and third seasons. She was Emmy-nominated for her roles as in BlancheDuBois in the CBS film A Streetcar Named Desire (1995), a wife in the HBO television...
she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, and a portrayal of BlancheDuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014, 2016), winning the Evening Standard...
in 2005 Richardson appeared again with the Roundabout, this time as BlancheDuBois in the revival of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite...
her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and BlancheDuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had...
won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for playing BlancheDuBois in a 2009 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, she won the Laurence...
Award. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing BlancheDuBois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948...
on her performance.[citation needed] In 1956, Bankhead appeared as BlancheDuBois (a character inspired by her[citation needed]) in a revival of Tennessee...
one season. In 2012. she made her Broadway debut playing the role of BlancheDuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. In 2013, Parker was lead actress in the...
Stuart Maunder. In 2014, she won critical acclaim for her portrayal of BlancheDuBois in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire for the Black Swan...
United States on October 1, 1992. In the episode, Marge wins the role of BlancheDuBois in a community theatre musical version of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar...
of the best-kept secrets' in town. Now she's taking on 'Streetcar's' BlancheDuBois". Los Angeles Times. 4 September 1994. Retrieved 30 January 2020. "Elizabeth...
Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which her mother played BlancheDuBois. She spent her childhood in the UK and the US, attending several schools...
Susan Traherne in Plenty (1999), Hedda Gabler in Hedda Gabler (2004), BlancheDuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (2009), Yelena in Uncle Vanya (2011), and...
Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans with his wife, Stella (née DuBois), and is employed as a factory parts salesman. He was an Army engineer in...
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Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Liv Ullmann. She starred as BlancheDuBois alongside Joel Edgerton as Stanley Kowalski. Ullmann and Blanchett had...
Edna Ferber's The Royal Family (1975). During this time she portrayed BlancheDuBois in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire (1973) and Portia...
Williams had named his lead character in A Streetcar Named Desire, BlancheDuBois, after her. She married American producer Mark Marvin, 17 years her...
adaptation of the play, while Blanchett played the leading role of BlancheDuBois in the Australian production of the play staged by the Sydney Theatre...
Blanche Gladys Colston, Lady Roundway (née duBois Duddell, born 1879) was a British tennis player. She reached the third round at Wimbledon twice in 1922...
Leigh was signed for the role of BlancheDuBois in the 1949 London production of the play. After playing the role of DuBois for 326 performances, Leigh was...
stated it was "the best Juliet I've ever seen". After she starred as BlancheDuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, its playwright, Tennessee Williams, stated...
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