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Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film and television actress. She was an Academy Award and Tony Award winner.〔 Straight made her Broadway debut in 1939 in ''The Possessed''. Her other Broadway roles included Viola in ''Twelfth Night'' (1941), Catherine Sloper in ''The Heiress'' (1947) and Lady Macduff in ''Macbeth'' (1948). For her role as Elizabeth Proctor in the 1953 production of ''The Crucible'', she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. For the 1976 film ''Network,'' she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was on screen for five minutes and forty seconds, the shortest performance ever to win an Academy Award for acting. She also received an Emmy Award nomination for the 1978 miniseries ''The Dain Curse''. Straight also appeared as Mother Christophe in ''The Nun's Story'' (1959) and Dr. Lesh in ''Poltergeist'' (1982). ==Life and career== Born in Old Westbury, New York, Straight was the daughter of Dorothy Payne Whitney, of the Whitney family, and Willard Dickerman Straight, an investment banker, diplomat, and career U.S. Army officer.〔 Her maternal grandfather was political leader and financier William Collins Whitney. She was four years old when her father died in France of influenza during the great epidemic while serving with the US Army during World War I. Following her mother's remarriage to British agronomist Leonard K. Elmhirst in 1925, the family moved to England. It was there that Straight was educated and began acting in amateur theater productions. Returning to the United States, she made her Broadway debut in 1939 in the play ''The Possessed''. Most of her theatre work was in the classics, including ''Twelfth Night'' (1941), ''Macbeth'', and ''The Crucible'' (1953), for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. From its inception, Straight was a member of the Actors Studio, attending the class conducted three times weekly by founding member Robert Lewis; her classmates included Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Jerome Robbins, Sidney Lumet, and about 20 others. Straight was active in the early days of television, appearing in anthology series such as ''Armstrong Circle Theatre'', ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'', ''Kraft Television Theatre'', ''Studio One'', ''Suspense'', ''The United States Steel Hour'', ''Playhouse 90'', and ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' and dramatic series like ''Dr. Kildare'', ''Ben Casey'', ''The Defenders'', ''Route 66'', ''Mission: Impossible'', and ''St. Elsewhere''. Further television performances include the role of Hippolyta in the ''Wonder Woman'' series, and Marion Hillyard, the icy, controlling mother of Stephen Collins in ''The Promise''. Straight worked infrequently in film and is perhaps remembered best for her role as a devastated wife confronting husband William Holden's infidelity in ''Network'' (1976). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance which, at five minutes and forty seconds, remains the shortest ever to win an Oscar. Her most widely seen film appearance after ''Network'' was the role of the paranormal investigator Dr. Martha Lesh in the 1982 horror film ''Poltergeist''. 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「Beatrice Straight」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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