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Actor Born: April 27, 1937 in Hastings, NE Death: March 2, 1992 in Westport, CT Biography:With her distinctive, some say irritating, high-pitched voice, her nervous mannerisms, and her tendency to stammer and mutter her way through lines, "Sandy Dennis" was one of the most easily recognizable serious actresses of stage and screen during the '60s and '70s. Dennis started out appearing in community theater and then moved to New York where she studied at the Actors Studio where she became a staunch proponent of Method acting. In 1961, Dennis made her film debut with a supporting role in "Elia Kazan"'s romantic melodrama "Splendor in the Grass". Dennis spent the next few years on Broadway winning two successive Tony Awards two years in a row for her performances in A Thousand Clowns and Any Wednesday. In 1966, she made an auspicious sophomore film appearance playing the chirpy, naïve sexpot wife of young college professor "George Segal" in "Mike Nichol"'s gut-wrenching marital drama Who's... Full Biography
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