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🎬 Filmography

Screen catalogue →

Heartbreakers

2001 · as Gloria Vogal

Keeping the Faith

2000 · as Ruth Schram

Great Expectations

1998 · as Ms. Dinsmoor

Antz

1998 · as Queen (voice)

G.I. Jane

1997 · as Senator Lillian DeHaven

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

1995 · as Madame Ouspenskaya

How to Make an American Quilt

1995 · as Glady Joe Cleary

Malice

1993 · as Mrs. Kennsinger

Mr. Jones

1993 · as Dr. Catherine Holland

Point of No Return

1993 · as Amanda

Agnes of God

1985 · as Mother Miriam Ruth

The Elephant Man

1980 · as Mrs Kendal

Jesus of Nazareth

1977 · as Mary Magdalene

The Graduate

1967

The Miracle Worker

1962 · as Annie Sullivan

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Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She is one of only 24 thespians to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. Associated with the method acting technique, having studied under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Bancroft made her film debut in the noir thriller Don't Bother to Knock in 1952, and then appeared in 14 other films over the following five years. In 1958, Bancroft made her Broadway debut with the play Two for the Seesaw, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. The following year she portrayed Anne Sullivan in the original Broadway production of The Miracle Worker, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Following her continued success on stage, Bancroft's film career was revived when she was cast in the acclaimed film adaptation of The Miracle Worker (1962) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her film career further progressed with Oscar nominated performances in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), The Turning Point (1977), and Agnes of God (1985). Bancroft continued to act in the later half of her life, with prominent roles in The Elephant Man (1980), To Be or Not to Be (1983), Garbo Talks (1984), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Torch Song Trilogy (1988), Home for the Holidays (1995), G.I. Jane (1997), Great Expectations (1998), and Up at the Villa (2000). She received multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including for the television films Broadway Bound (1992), Deep in My Heart (1999), for which she won, and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003). Bancroft died in 2005, at the age of 73, as a result of uterine cancer. She was married to director, actor, and writer Mel Brooks, with whom she had a son, author Max Brooks. Early life Bancroft was born Anna Maria Louisa (or Luisa) Italiano on September 17, 1931, in the Bronx, New York City, the middle of three daughters of Mildred (née Di Napoli), a telephone operator, and Michael G. Italiano, a dress pattern maker. Both of her parents' surnames were toponymic. Her parents were Italian immigrants from Southern Italy. In an interview, she stated that her family was originally from Muro Lucano, in the province of Potenza.

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Notable quotes

“I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?”
— Interview on her role in the Broadway play "Two for the Seesaw". The New York Times (1958).
“There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but — the content of the role itself — I find there are many roles.”
— Associated Press interview (1997).
“First of all, you have to marry the right person. If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely — by that time, you're both dead. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.”
— On successful marriage. Associated Press interview (1997).
“He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.”
— On her husband Mel Brooks Associated Press interview (1997).
“I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.”
— Interview (2003).
“To this day, when men meet me, there's always that movie in the back of their mind.”
— On The Graduate, "Anne Bancroft Finds Her Own Way Back", interview with Peter Marks in the New York Times (17 February 2002).

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?”
— Interview on her role in the Broadway play "Two for the Seesaw". The New York Times (1958).
“There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but — the content of the role itself — I find there are many roles.”
— Associated Press interview (1997).
“First of all, you have to marry the right person. If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely — by that time, you're both dead. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.”
— On successful marriage. Associated Press interview (1997).
“He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.”
— On her husband Mel Brooks Associated Press interview (1997).
“I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.”
— Interview (2003).
“To this day, when men meet me, there's always that movie in the back of their mind.”
— On The Graduate, "Anne Bancroft Finds Her Own Way Back", interview with Peter Marks in the New York Times (17 February 2002).

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She is one of only 24 thespians to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. Associated with the method acting technique, having studied under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Bancroft made her film debut in the noir thriller Don't Bother to Knock in 1952, and then appeared in 14 other films over the following five years. In 1958, Bancroft made her Broadway debut with the play Two for the Seesaw, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. The following year she portrayed Anne Sullivan in the original Broadway production of The Miracle Worker, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Following her continued success on stage, Bancroft's film career was revived when she was cast in the acclaimed film adaptation of The Miracle Worker (1962) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her film career further progressed with Oscar nominated performances in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), The Turning Point (1977), and Agnes of God (1985). Bancroft continued to act in the later half of her life, with prominent roles in The Elephant Man (1980), To Be or Not to Be (1983), Garbo Talks (1984), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Torch Song Trilogy (1988), Home for the Holidays (1995), G.I. Jane (1997), Great Expectations (1998), and Up at the Villa (2000). She received multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including for the television films Broadway Bound (1992), Deep in My Heart (1999), for which she won, and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003). Bancroft died in 2005, at the age of 73, as a result of uterine cancer. She was married to director, actor, and writer Mel Brooks, with whom she had a son, author Max Brooks. Early life Bancroft was born Anna Maria Louisa (or Luisa) Italiano on September 17, 1931, in the Bronx, New York City, the middle of three daughters of Mildred (née Di Napoli), a telephone operator, and Michael G. Italiano, a dress pattern maker. Both of her parents' surnames were toponymic. Her parents were Italian immigrants from Southern Italy. In an interview, she stated that her family was originally from Muro Lucano, in the province of Potenza.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She is one of only 24 thespians to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.

🎬 Filmography

Screen catalogue →

Heartbreakers

2001 · as Gloria Vogal

Keeping the Faith

2000 · as Ruth Schram

Great Expectations

1998 · as Ms. Dinsmoor

Antz

1998 · as Queen (voice)

G.I. Jane

1997 · as Senator Lillian DeHaven

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

1995 · as Madame Ouspenskaya

How to Make an American Quilt

1995 · as Glady Joe Cleary

Malice

1993 · as Mrs. Kennsinger

Mr. Jones

1993 · as Dr. Catherine Holland

Point of No Return

1993 · as Amanda

Agnes of God

1985 · as Mother Miriam Ruth

The Elephant Man

1980 · as Mrs Kendal

Jesus of Nazareth

1977 · as Mary Magdalene

The Graduate

1967

The Miracle Worker

1962 · as Annie Sullivan

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