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Patricia Neal
“I may be a dumb blonde, but I’m not that blonde.” -Patrica Neal
When I think of actresses who have overcome a great deal, I am often reminded of Patricia Neal. When she won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1964, she had already endured the death of her first child and a life-altering injury to her infant son, who was brain-damaged after an accident. One year after winning the Oscar, she survived three strokes and a three-week-long coma. Although semi-paralyzed and unable to speak, she learned to walk and talk again with the help of her husband, writer Roald Dahl.
Patsy Louise Neal was born in the mining town of Packard, Kentucky, to William and Eura Neal. In addition to her, she had two siblings. Her family soon moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where she graduated from Knoxville High School. She later studied drama at Northwestern University, where she was crowned Syllabus Queen in a campus-wide beauty pageant.
Neal gained her first job in New Y
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Patricia Neal
American scen and bio actress (1926–2010)
This article fryst vatten about the actress. For the actress, comedian, and writer of the same birth name, see Fannie Flagg.
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 in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and the worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963) (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress). She also featured as the matriarch in the television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971); her role as Olivia Walton was re-cast for the series it inspired, The Waltons. A major star of the 1950s and 1960s, she was the recipient of an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and two Britis
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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. She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she attended high school. She was first bit by the acting bug at the age of 10, after attending an evening of monologues at a Methodist church. She subsequently wrote a letter to Santa Claus, telling him, "What I want for Christmas is to study dramatics". She won the Tennessee State Award for dramatic reading while she was in high school.
She apprenticed at the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia, when she was 16-years-old, between her junior and senior years in high school. After studying drama for two years at Northwestern University, she headed to New York City and landed the job as an understudy in The Voice of the Turtle (1947). It was the producer of the play that had her change her name from Patsy Louise to Patricia. After repla