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Patricia Neal (born Patsy Louise Neal; January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen. She is well known for, among other roles, playing World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), radio journalist Marcia Jeffries in A Face in the Crowd (1957), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson ...
No performer wants to be the star of her own tragedy; but Neal, who died Sunday at 84 on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard, proved herself a towering figure of physical resiliency ...
Patricia Neal. Actress: Hud. Patricia Neal, the Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress, was born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky, where her father managed a coal mine and her mother was the daughter of the town doctor.
People saw Patricia Neal as the "other woman" between Hollywood hunk Gary Cooper and his wife—but there's more to the scandalous story than that.
Patricia Neal, American motion picture actress known for her deeply intelligent performances, usually as tough-minded independent women, and for her rehabilitation and triumphant return to films following a series of strokes. Learn more about Neal’s life and career in this article.
Neal’s Oscar-winning role as the weary housekeeper in “Hud,” starring Paul Newman as the ruthless son of a Texas rancher, came in the wake of two family tragedies.
Patricia Neal, who made her way from Kentucky’s coal country to Hollywood and Broadway, winning an Academy Award and a Tony, but whose life alternated almost surreally between triumph and...
Actress Patricia Neal, who rebuilt a troubled career to win an Academy Award only to face a more desperate battle for survival when three strokes left her paralyzed and unable to speak or...
Patricia Neal (born 1926) is almost as well known for the events of her own life as she is for her career on stage and screen. In 1963, after winning her first Academy Award for Best Actress, Neal suffered three massive strokes.
At the 39th Academy Awards, Oscar-winner Patricia Neal (Best Actress for 1963's 'Hud') received an emotional standing ovation from the audience as she made her first Hollywood appearance since a near-fatal stroke two years prior which left her in a coma and struggling to speak.