Actress. Born on March 19, 1947, in Greenwich, Connecticut, educated at the College of William and Mary. A 12th-generation New Englander, she was raised on the family's 500-acre estate, occasionally accompanying her Harvard-trained surgeon father on his trips to a clinic he opened in Belgian Congo (now Zaire). While still at high school, she organized and performed with a repertory troupe called Fingernails ("The Group With Polish"), and later toured with various folk-singing groups. After graduating from college with a degree in drama and speech, she began performing on the New York stage, Director George Roy Hill, who saw her in the Broadway musical "Barnum", cast her in the role of Robin Williams' liberated mother in The World According to Garp (1982), her film debut. She proved a natural for the movies, reaching peaks of success with vicious roles in Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons, for both of which she was nominated for Academy Awards as Best Actress. She was also nominated for Oscars as Best Supporting Actress for Garp, the Big Chill and The Natural. On one of her periodic returns to Broadway, she won a Tony for "The Real Thing". In recent years she has distinguished herself on the small screen, in well-received TV movies "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and "Stones for Ibarra". Twice divorced, she lives in New York City as a single mother. An accomplished lyric soprano, she traditionally sings the National Anthem in the New York Mets home opening-day games.
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