Tammy Lee Grimes (January 30, 1934 – October 30, 2016) was an American film and stage actress.
Grimes won two Tony Awards in her career, the first for originating the role of Molly Tobin in the musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown and the second for starring in a 1970 revival of Private Lives as Amanda Prynne. Her first husband, Christopher Plummer, and their daughter, actress Amanda Plummer, are also Tony Award winners.
She originated the role of Diana in the Broadway production of California Suite. The role of Diana was played in the film by Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for her performance. Grimes played the role of Elmire in the 1978 Broadway and television production of Tartuffe. She originated roles in several works by Noël Coward, including Elvira in High Spirits and Lulu in Look After Lulu! In 1966, she starred in her own television series, The Tammy Grimes Show. Grimes was also known for her cabaret acts. In 2003, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Tammy Lee Grimes (January 30, 1934 – October 30, 2016) was an American film and stage actress. Grimes won two Tony Awards in her career, the first for...
network. The Tammy Grimes Show was one of the few prime time series of the era canceled after only four episodes. Grimes played Tammy Ward, a spendthrift...
March 23, 1957, in New York City, the only child of American actress TammyGrimes and Canadian actor Christopher Plummer. Her father said that they named...
Night's Dream. Plummer was married three times. His first wife was actress TammyGrimes, whom he married in 1956. Their marriage lasted four years, and they...
hosted the program from January 1974 until February 1, 1982, when actress TammyGrimes took over for the remainder of the series' final season, maintaining...
"The Handmade Private" 1962 The Andy Williams Show Himself Episode: "TammyGrimes/Jerry Van Dyke" 1963 The Garry Moore Show Himself Episode: "Dorothy Loudon...
Coward (who appeared on the same show with Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, TammyGrimes and Brian Bedford), John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Janis Joplin, Ray Charles...
directed by Stephen Porter and starring Brian Bedford as Elyot and TammyGrimes as Amanda (winning a Tony Award for her performance), with David Glover...
in the 1969 movie, True Grit. He was briefly married to the actress TammyGrimes and was stepfather to actress Amanda Plummer during this time.[citation...
starred Farrah Fawcett and Jeff Bridges. Also in the cast were John Wood, TammyGrimes and John Glover. The film is set in Manhattan, New York City. The plot...
alongside Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Coolidge, among others. She replaced TammyGrimes as "The Visitor from New York" (Hannah Warren) in the Neil Simon comedy...
television comedies, One Happy Family in 1961, Broadside in 1964, and The TammyGrimes Show, a four-episode ABC flop in 1966. For three seasons, from 1969 to...
Square Theatre in 1977, with John Wood as Tartuffe, and co-starring TammyGrimes as Elmire, Stefan Gierasch as Orgon, Ray Wise as Damis, Swoosie Kurtz...
McGuire (1958) (A Night to Remember) TammyGrimes (1960) (The Unsinkable Molly Brown) (Broadway musical) Grimes won a Tony Award for her performance....
debut in a 1966 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie starring TammyGrimes, her first job as a member of Actors' Equity. Kane's on-screen career...
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