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Anna Maria Louisa Italiano〔 (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005), known professionally as Anne Bancroft, was an American actress associated with the Method acting school, where she studied under Lee Strasberg.〔Strasberg, Lee. ''Strasberg at the Actors Studio: Tape-recorded Sessions'', Theatre Communications Group (1965) back cover〕 Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft was acknowledged for her work in film, theatre and television. She won one Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globes, two Tony Awards and two Emmy Awards, and several other awards and nominations. After her film debut in ''Don't Bother to Knock'' (1952) and a string of supporting film roles during the 1950s, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her lead role in ''The Miracle Worker'' (1962) as the teacher of teenage Helen Keller, reprising her role in the Broadway stage play. She won both an Oscar for her work in the film, and a Tony for the same role in the play. On Broadway in 1965, she played a medieval nun obsessed with a priest (Jason Robards) in John Whiting's play ''The Devils'', based on the Aldous Huxley novel ''The Devils of Loudun''. She was perhaps best known as the seductress, Mrs. Robinson, in ''The Graduate'' (1967), a role that she later stated had come to overshadow her other work. Bancroft received several other Oscar nominations and continued in lead roles until the late 1980s. She played a ballet dancer in ''The Turning Point'' (1977), and in ''Agnes of God'' she played the mother superior of a convent who clashes with a psychiatrist played by Jane Fonda over dealings with a troubled young novice nun played by Meg Tilly. In 1987, she starred with Anthony Hopkins in ''84 Charing Cross Road''. She appeared in several movies directed or produced by her second husband, comedian Mel Brooks, including the award-winning drama ''The Elephant Man'' as well as comedies ''To Be or Not to Be'' and ''Dracula: Dead and Loving It''. In the 1990s she returned to supporting roles in films, but continued to play lead roles in television films. She received Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, for ''The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone'' (2003), as well as an Emmy nomination for 2001's ''Haven''. Bancroft died of uterine cancer in 2005 at the age of 73. She is survived by her mother, sisters, husband Mel Brooks, and son Max Brooks. ==Early life== Bancroft was born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano in the Bronx, New York, the middle of three daughters of Mildred (née DiNapoli; 1908–2010), a telephone operator, and Michael G. Italiano (1905–2001), a dress pattern maker.〔(Anne Bancroft profile ), filmreference.com; accessed September 29, 2014.〕 Bancroft's parents were both children of Italian immigrants. In an interview she claimed her family was originally from Muro Lucano, in the province of Potenza. She was brought up Catholic. She graduated from Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx in 1948, and attended HB Studio, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Actors Studio and the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women at the University of California, Los Angeles. After appearing in a number of live television dramas under the name Anne Marno, she was told to change her surname for her film debut in ''Don't Bother to Knock''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne Bancroft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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