Anna Eileen Stark Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Versatile, award-winning character actress Eileen Heckart, with the lean, horsey face and assured, fervent gait, was born Anna Eileen Stark on March 29, 1919, in Columbus, Ohio. An only child, she lived with her mother after her parents separated at age 2. Her childhood was an acutely unhappy one. Her mother, an alcoholic, was married five times, ...
[upon entering the auditorium as a nominee on Oscar night] I just hope they pan the camera on me once. I paid a lot of money for this dress, and I want my mother in Columbus, Ohio to be able to see it.
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Now who can afford (theater)? And people don't want to think... You never used to hear them talk during a performance. Now they talk.
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"I don't like sitcoms, it's instant acting; it has nothing to do with talent. They shoot everything close-up. ... It's very boring. You do television to make money so you can afford to act in the theater." (on her opinion about working on sitcoms)
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Delivered a stillborn son, Michael, in 1950.
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Delivered her sons Michael, Mark and Philip naturally and her son Luke via Caesarean section.
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Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her son Mark to begin performing in the Broadway play "In Any Language".
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Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her son Philip to begin performing in the Broadway play "The Bad Seed".
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Was 5 months pregnant with her son Philip when she completed her run of the Broadway play "Picnic".
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Returned to work 8 months after giving birth to her son Luke Yankee to begin performing in the Broadway play "Invitation to a March".
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Her son Philip Yankee died on June 8, 2004 aged 49.
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Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 40, a son Luke Yankee on February 7, 1960. Child's father was her husband, John Yankee.
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 35, a son Philip Yankee on August 14, 1954. Child's father was her husband, John Yankee.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 33, a son Mark Yankee on June 16, 1952. Child's father was her husband, John Yankee.
Heckart has always considered herself primarily as a stage actress. On the night she won her Oscar, she said to a reporter that the award was "nice, but it's not my life.".
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Heckart played her Oscar-winning role in "Butterflies" in both New York and London prior to doing the film.
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Heckart's real parents Esther and Leo Herbert, divorced when she was two, and she was adopted by her mother's step-father, John Heckart.
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In order to get Heckart to agree to do "Bus Stop," director Joshua Logan read the entire script over the phone to her. It took two and a half hours while her whole family was waiting for dinner. She was in Arizona at the time because her son had recently contracted meningitis.
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She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
Won a Special Tony Award in 2000 for "Excellence in Theater". Previously, she had received three Tony nominations as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic): in 1958 for William Inge's "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," in 1961 for "Invitation to a March," and in 1970 for "Butterflies Are Free," the last recreated in her Oscar-winning performance in the film version with the same title, Butterflies Are Free (1972).
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She was the only performer (besides Edward Asner, of course) to have reprised a role (Flo Meredith) on Lou Grant (1977) that originated on Mary Tyler Moore (1970).
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One week after winning the Oscar, she went in to pick up her unemployment check and the entire office burst into applause.
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The one time in her life she managed to stop smoking, she had dinner with Bette Davis and started again.
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Marlene Dietrich said of her, "If she were acting in Europe, she'd be queen of the boards. The barbarism of Hollywood typecasting deprives the world of her true talents".
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Her trademark, hoarse voice was caused by an early bout of whooping cough.
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Graduated from Ohio State University with a drama degree.
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Stepsisters: Marilyn Pickering (Michigan City, IN) & Anne Fraggiotti (Centerville, OH).
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Born at 6:02 AM (EST).
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Cybill
1996-1998
TV Series
Marge
Home Improvement
1997
TV Series
Elaine Jenkins
Ellen
1997
TV Series
Grandma
Murder One
1996
TV Series
Frances Wyler
The First Wives Club
1996
Catherine MacDuggan
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
1994-1995
TV Series
Mother Emma Buchanan
Ultimate Betrayal
1994
TV Movie
Sarah McNeil
Love & War
1993-1994
TV Series
Rose Stein
Breathing Lessons
1994
TV Movie
Mabel
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
1993
TV Movie
Shelley
Stuck with Each Other
1989
TV Movie
Annie McGuire
1988-1989
TV Series
Emma Block
Tales from the Darkside
1988
TV Series
Rose Pennywell
The Cosby Show
1987
TV Series
Mrs. Hickson
Nine to Five
1987
TV Series
Morning Maggie
1987
TV Movie
Aunt Esther Handlesman
Heartbreak Ridge
1986
Little Mary
The Ellen Burstyn Show
1986
TV Series
Nathalie Garrett
Seize the Day
1986
Funeral Woman #1
Stephen King's Golden Tales
1985
Video
The Recovery Room
1985
TV Movie
Mrs. Griffin, Steve's Grandmother
Highway to Heaven
1985
TV Series
Helen Spencer
Partners in Crime
1984
TV Series
Jeanine
Trapper John, M.D.
1981-1984
TV Series
Lydia Pearl / Thelma
Gloria
1983
TV Series
Trauma Center
1983
TV Series
Nurse Amy Decker
Games Mother Never Taught You
1982
TV Movie
Martha Brewster
Table Settings
1982
TV Movie
The Big Black Pill
1981
TV Movie
Sister Clara
Lou Grant
1980
TV Series
Flo Meredith
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
TV Movie
Eleanor Roosevelt
White Mama
1980
TV Movie
Three Bag Lady
Out of the Blue
1979
TV Series
The Boss Angel
3 by Cheever
1979
TV Mini-Series
Rosemary
Backstairs at the White House
1979
TV Mini-Series
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Little House on the Prairie
1979
TV Series
Amanda Cooper
The Honeymooners
1978/I
TV Movie
Mrs. Gibson - Alice's Mother
Suddenly, Love
1978
TV Movie
Mrs. Malloy
Flying High
1978
TV Series
Ruthie
Sunshine Christmas
1977
TV Movie
Bertha Hayden
Alice
1976
TV Series
Rose Hyatt
Mary Tyler Moore
1975-1976
TV Series
Flo Meredith
Switch
1976
TV Series
Annie Warren
Burnt Offerings
1976
Roz Allardyce
Rhoda
1976
TV Series
Aunt Lillian Fiedler
Hawaii Five-O
1975
TV Series
Agatha Henderson
The Hiding Place
1975
Katje
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974
TV Movie
Ma Barker
Lily
1974
TV Movie
Zandy's Bride
1974
Ma Allan
Wedding Band
1974
TV Movie
Herman's Mother
Barnaby Jones
1974
TV Series
Virginia Lennox / 'Steele'
Love Story
1973
TV Series
Marge Stone
Banyon
1972
TV Series
Mrs. Shaw
The Victim
1972
TV Movie
Mrs. Hawkes
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
TV Series
Stella 'Stell' Charnovski
Butterflies Are Free
1972
Mrs. Baker
All the Way Home
1971
TV Movie
Aunt Hannah Lynch
Gunsmoke
1965-1969
TV Series
Athena Partridge Royce / Hattie Silks
The Tree
1969
Sally Dunning
One Life to Live
1968
TV Series
Ruth Perkins (1986) / Wilma Bern #1 (1992)
CBS Playhouse
1968
TV Series
Janet Furguson
No Way to Treat a Lady
1968
Mrs. Brummel
Up the Down Staircase
1967
Henrietta Pastorfield
The Fugitive
1964-1967
TV Series
Sister Veronica
New York Television Theatre
1966
TV Series
Beatrice / Clara
The Felony Squad
1966
TV Series
Ruth Ehlers
The F.B.I.
1965
TV Series
Mrs. Creighton
The Doctors and the Nurses
1965
TV Series
Harriet Watts
The Defenders
1964
TV Series
Dr. Katherine Tasso
The Eleventh Hour
1963
TV Series
Bea Miller
Ben Casey
1963
TV Series
Polly Jenks
My Six Loves
1963
Ethel
Naked City
1962-1963
TV Series
Virginia Cort / Mildred Pepper
Dr. Kildare
1962
TV Series
Nurse Jenny Freesmith
The New Breed
1961
TV Series
Harriet Dawson
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1961
TV Series
Lucy Baldwin
Play of the Week
1960-1961
TV Series
Myrtle
Heller in Pink Tights
1960
Mrs. Lorna Hathaway
A Doll's House
1959
TV Movie
Kristine Lind
Playhouse 90
1959
TV Series
Dorothy / Rose
Hot Spell
1958
Alma's Friend
Kraft Theatre
1949-1957
TV Series
Courtesan
Studio One in Hollywood
1950-1957
TV Series
Evie Jackson
The Alcoa Hour
1957
TV Series
Vi Miller
The Little Foxes
1956
TV Movie
Birdie
The Bad Seed
1956
Hortense Daigle
Bus Stop
1956
Vera
Somebody Up There Likes Me
1956
Ma Barbella
Miracle in the Rain
1956
Grace Ullman
Goodyear Playhouse
1953-1955
TV Series
Ruthie / Kate
The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
1949-1955
TV Series
Ruthie
Windows
1955
TV Series
Seamstress
Campbell Summer Soundstage
1954
TV Series
Aunt Polly
Justice
1954
TV Series
The Trip to Bountiful
1953
TV Movie
Jessie Mae Watts
Short Short Dramas
1952
TV Series
Danger
1952
TV Series
Suspense
1949-1952
TV Series
Mrs. Haskell / Margaret Quartermain / Mollie
Out There
1951
TV Series
The Big Story
1951
TV Series
Ruth Mugglebee
The Web
1951
TV Series
Lux Video Theatre
1950-1951
TV Series
Miss Green / Florie
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
TV Series
The Ford Theatre Hour
1950
TV Series
Carrie
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Broadway Legends
2002
TV Movie documentary
Herself
The 54th Annual Tony Awards
2000
TV Special
Herself - Winner: Excellence in Theatre Award
The 46th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1994
TV Special
Herself - Winner: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series & Presenter: Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
The Suzanne Somers Show
1994
TV Series
Herself - Guest
Josh, the Logan Legend
1986
Documentary
Herself
The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1979
TV Special
Herself - Nominated: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
The Mike Douglas Show
1971-1977
TV Series
Herself - Guest
The 45th Annual Academy Awards
1973
TV Special
Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
The 24th Annual Tony Awards
1970
TV Special
Herself
To Tell the Truth
1968
TV Series
Girl Talk
1967
TV Series
Herself
The Ed Sullivan Show
1953
TV Series
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The 74th Annual Academy Awards
2002
TV Special
Herself (Memorial Tribute)
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1996
NBR Award
National Board of Review, USA
Best Acting by an Ensemble
The First Wives Club (1996)
1994
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Love & War (1992)
1973
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Butterflies Are Free (1972)
1960
Star on the Walk of Fame
Walk of Fame
Motion Picture
On 8 February 1960. At 6140 Hollywood Blvd.
1957
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Best Supporting Actress
The Bad Seed (1956)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1988
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series
The Cosby Show (1984)
1987
Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series
One Life to Live (1968)
1980
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980)
1979
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
Backstairs at the White House (1979)
1977
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series
Mary Tyler Moore (1970)
1976
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Comedy or Drama Series
Mary Tyler Moore (1970)
1975
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Special