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Anne Bancroft is one of a very few bunch of Artists who have had the privileges, honor as well as the luck of winning a Tony award, an Emmy Award as well as an Oscar in her career. She earned a Tony Award quite early on in her career for the play “Two for the Seesaw”. It is a portrayal of a situation where two individuals cannot let go of their former lives even when they know that they have to move on in order to be happy. Her real name being Anna Maria Louisa Italiano she was born to parents who were both Italian immigrants to America. She made her stage debut in the Play “Don’t Bother to Knock” where her name was changed from Anne Marno to Bancroft so that is sounded better to the audience and her fans. Anne Bancroft studied in Christopher Columbus High School and later went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts as well as the Actor’s Studio and the American Film Institute and then she went on to stare in a number of television features, which later helped her in her stage career.
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Anne Bancroft was the daughter of Italian immigrants, and studied drama at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She worked in live television, then came to Hollywood and appeared in several forgettable films, before returning to New York to work on stage. "The studios wanted to give me the Monroe-type sex buildup," she later said. "I wanted to develop my acting, not my body." On Broadway, she won Tonys for Two for the Seesaw with Henry Fonda, and The Miracle Worker with Patty Duke and Patricia Neal. She ... starred as Golda Meir in the 1977 production of Golda.
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A dark-haired, earthy beauty and a versatile actress, Anne Bancroft has actually had two film careers. The first, which took place during the 1950s, was generally undistinguished and featured her in films that usually failed to fully utilize her talents. The second, which began in the early '60s, established her as an actress of great acclaim in films like The Miracle Worker and granted her screen immortality with roles such as that of the iconic Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. A first generation Italian-American hailing from the Bronx, Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano) was four years old when she began taking acting and dancing lessons. Billing herself as Anne Marno, she began appearing on television in 1950. Two years later she signed a contract with Fox and launched a six-year career in second-string Westerns and crime dramas that began with Don't Bother to Knock in 1952.
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From All Movie Guide: A dark-haired, earthy beauty and a versatile actress, Anne Bancroft has actually had two film careers. The first, which took place during the 1950s, was generally undistinguished and featured her in films that usually failed to fully utilize her talents. The second, which began in the early '60s, established her as an actress of great acclaim in films like The Miracle Worker and granted her screen immortality with roles such as that of the iconic Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate.
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In her final performance, Anne Bancroft joined a star-studded voice cast for Atlanta-based Fathom Studios in the first theatrical independent CGI production, "DELGO", coming soon. Bancroft voiced the character of Sedessa, an eccentric, vilianous leader who is as ambitious as she is charming. Her "Heartbreakers" co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt is ... one of the stars of the movie.
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Anne Bancroft may be best know for her role as Mrs. Robinson in the 1968 film The Graduate starring opposite Dustin Hoffman. Bancroft was a very well accomplished actor who performed on stage, screen and televsion. She is one of only a few actors to win an Oscar, Emmy and Tony awards. Anne Bancroft married Mel Brooks in 1964 and they were together until her recent death in June of 2005.
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