Zoe Caldwell

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Zoe Caldwell, OBE (b.September 14 1933, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a USA-based Australian-born actress. She was born as Ada Caldwell but changed her forename, taking that of her own mother, Zoe. .<p>She has won four Tony Awards - for her performances on Broadway in Slapstick Tragedy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Medea and Master Class. In the last she portrayed legendary diva Maria Callas.<p>Other Broadway credits include The Creation of the World and Other Business and Macbeth. She has also appeared on film, most notably as an imperious dowager in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo.<p>Zoe Caldwell was married in 1968 to Canadian-born Broadway producer Robert Whitehead, a cousin of actor Hume Cronyn. They had two sons and were married until Whitehead's death in 2002. She has not remarried.<p>...