Blair Brown
Birth Place: Washington, DC.
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BIO
Broadway: The Parisian Woman, Copenhagen (Tony Award), James Joyce’s The Dead, Cabaret, The Secret Rapture, The Threepenny Opera. Off-Broadway/regional: Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage Theater / Steppenwolf), On The Shore of the Wide World, Nikolai And The Others, The Clean House, Arcadia, The Tempest (McCarter Theatre), A Little Night Music (Kennedy Center), Humble Boy, Camino Real (Williamstown), My Life as a Fairy Tale (LCF), Comedy of Errors (NYSF), The Skin of Our Teeth (Old Globe), seasons at Stratford-Ontario and Guthrie Theater. Film: My Art, Speed of Thought, Dark Matter, The Sentinel, Dogville, Space Cowboys, The Astronaut’s Wife, Altered States, Continental Divide, Strapless, Stealing Home and A Flash of Green. TV includes: “Orange Is The New Black,” “Jack Ryan,” “Elementary,” “Limitless,” “Forever,” “Person of Interest,” “The Affair,” “Fringe,” “The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd” (5 Emmy nominations), “ER,” “ED,” “The Ultimate Life,” “Kennedy,” “A Season in Purgatory,” “The Good Policeman,” “Hands of a Stranger,” “Follow the Stars Home,” “In His Life: The John Lennon Story,” “Convictions, “Gifts of Love,” “To Walk Again: The Eddie Keating Jr, Story,” “Missing Parents,” “Majority Rules,” “Extremely Close Up,” “Those Secrets,” “Space.” Directing: Rosemary and I (Passage), Lovely Day (Play Co.) and A Feminine Ending (PCS). Narrator of more than 50 documentary films and audio books.
STAGE CREDITS
Movies
[ 1972 ] Jo-jo
[ 1973 ] Miss Farranti
[ 1977 ] Kimberly Lyles
[ 1980 ] Emily Jessup
[ 1980 ] Marion
[ 1981 ] Nell Porter
[ 1984 ] Kat Hubble
[ 1988 ] Ginny Wyatt
[ 1989 ] Dr. Lillian Hempel
[ 1992 ] Amy Scanlan
[ 1999 ] Shelly McLaren
[ 2000 ] Dr. Anne Caruthers
[ 2003 ] Mrs. Henson
[ 2005 ] Jeanette Rawley
[ 2006 ] Eve
[ 2006 ] Miss Callucci
[ 2006 ] National Security Advisor
[ 2007 ] Hildy
[ 2007 ] Laura's Mother
[ 2011 ] Bridger
TV Shows
Mary Burton
Nina Sharp, Alternate Nina Sharp
Marie Finch
Judy King
Molly Dodd, Lorna LaSalle
Pheasant Vaughan
Awards and Nominations
Blair Brown, James Joyce's The Dead
winner
Blair Brown, Copenhagen
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Blair Brown has appeared on Broadway in 8 shows.
Blair Brown has not appeared in the West End.
Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for James Joyce's The Dead and Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for Copenhagen.
Blair Brown won the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Copenhagen.
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