| Celebrated Name: | Joanne Woodward |
| Real Name/Full Name: | Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward |
| Gender: | Female |
| Age: | 94 years old |
| Birth Date: | 27 February 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Thomasville, Georgia, United States |
| Nationality: | American |
| Height: | 1.63 m |
| Weight: | 50 kg |
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
| Marital Status: | Widow |
| Husband/Spouse (Name): | Paul Newman (m. 1958-2008) |
| Children/Kids (Son and Daughter): | Yes. (Elinor Teresa “Nell,” Melissa Stewart, and Clea) |
| Dating/Boyfriend (Name): | No |
| Is Joanne Woodward Lesbian?: | No |
| Profession: | Actor, producer, and philanthropist |
| Salary: | N/A |
| Net Worth in 2024: | $55 million |
| Last Updated: | April 2024 |
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an actress, philanthropist, and producer from America. She is best known for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve in 1957. This helped her to earn an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. In her spanning a career over six decades, she received four Oscar nominations, ten Golden Globe Award nominations, four BAFTA Film Award nominations.
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Early Life & Biography
Joanne Woodward is the daughter of Elinor and Wade Woodward, Jr., who was the vice president of publishing company Charles Scribner’s Son. She was motivated to become an actress by her mother’s love of movies. Woodward used to live in Thomasville until she was in the second grade.
Later her family shifted to Marietta, Georgia, where she attended Marietta High School. She remains a booster of her high school and of the city’s Strand Theater. Her family moved once again when she was a junior in high school after her parents divorced. In 1947, she graduated from Greenville High School in Greenville. Woodward also won many beauty contests as a teenager.
Personal Life
Woodward has been first engaged to Gore Vidal before she gets married to Paul Newman. They first met on the set of The Long, Hot Summer in 1957. Newman married Woodward in January 1958, in Las Vegas. They both remained married for 50 years until Newman’s death from lung cancer. Woodward and Newman have three daughters together. Woodward, widowed since 2008 and makes her home in Westport, Connecticut, where she and Newman raised their daughters. Woodward and Newman were the first “Hollywood star” power couples who decided to raise their children outside California.
Age, Height, and Weight
Being born on 27 February 1930, Joanne Woodward is 94 years old as of today’s date 27th April 2024. Her height is 1.63 m tall, and her weight is 50 kg.
Career
Woodward managed to get roles on TV in her early career. From 1953 to 1954, she understudied in the New York production of Picnic. This featured her future husband, Paul Newman. Woodward’s debut film was a post-Civil War Western, Count Three and Pray in 1955. Later she signed a long term contract by 20th Century Fox in January 1956, and Woodward was given the lead role in her third feature, The Three Faces of Eve, in 1957. For this, Woodward won the Best Actress Oscar.
Woodward has given many blockbusters in the 1980s, including The Shadow Box and Crisis at Central High for TV. She returned to Broadway for Candida in 1981, which was a production directed by Michael Cristofer that was filmed in 1982. Woodward served as the director of the Westport Country Playhouse in 2001. She was an executive producer of the TV production of Our Town in 2003, which featured Newman as the stage manager. She and Newman have also appeared together in Empire Falls in 2005 for TV. She also recorded a reading of singer John Mellencamp’s song “The Real Life.” She had a lead role in Change in the Wind in 2010.
Awards & Achievements
In 1958, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Three Faces of Eve. In 1960, she won the Silver Shell award for Best Actress at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. In 1969, she was nominated for Best Actress for Rachel. In 1974, she was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival. The root of this legend is not known with certainty, but according to the long time Honorary Mayor of Hollywood, Woodward was the first celebrity to agree to pose with her star for photographers and thus was singled out in the collective public imagination as the first awardee.
Net Worth & Salary of Joanne Woodward in 2024
Joanne Woodward has an estimated net worth of $55 million as of April 2024. She earned this from acting and Film, Television producing assignments, which she undertakes to date.The root of this legend is not known with certainty, but according to the long time Honorary Mayor of Hollywood, Woodward was the first celebrity to agree to pose with her star for photographers and thus was singled out in the collective public imagination as the first awardee.
Joanne Woodward is an American actress, philanthropist, and producer. She role to fame after her performance in The Three Faces of Eve in 1957. Woodward, widowed since 2008 and makes her home in Westport, Connecticut, where she and Newman raised their daughters. Woodward and Newman were the first “Hollywood star” power couples who decided to raise their children outside California.
Woodward’s debut film was a post-Civil War Western, Count Three and Pray in 1955. The root of this legend is not known with certainty, but according to the long time Honorary Mayor of Hollywood, Woodward was the first celebrity to agree to pose with her star for photographers and thus was singled out in the collective public imagination as the first awardee.