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A professional actress since 1973, Nancy Linehan Charles is also a writer and director. She has developed five adaptations of Shakespeare's plays for Dramatic Publishing, the latest: HAMLET or Does Father Reeeeeeally Know Best? Her other adaptations are of Macbeth, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet. Most recently, Charles starred in a new play, Gaps in the Fossil Record by Matt Letscher, at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2003, she played Albertine in Toys in the Attic, for which she won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (LADCC) and the coveted Ovation Award. She has played the title role in The Killing of Sister George, Amanda Wingfield in Glass Menagerie and Kate in All My Sons, to name a few. In 2000, sporting a bald head for three months, she portrayed the dying John Donne scholar in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit. She received the 1994 LADCC Award for her portrayal of Claire Zachanassian in Pacific Resident Theatre's The Visit, which also received a Circle Award for Best Production. In 1998, she received an LADCC nomination for her portrayal of the title role in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession. She has appeared at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and across the country in regional theatres playing such roles as Emilia in Othello, Esther in The Price and the title roles in Letttice and Lovage, The Miracle Worker and Driving Miss Daisy. Television credits (selected) include guest appearances on Huff (recurring), The West Wing, ER, The Practice and HBO's Six Feet Under (recurring). She played Max von Sydow's wife in Minority Report and Ned Beatty's wife in Charlie Wilson's War. She can be seen as Bette Davis in Norma Jean and Marilyn, starring Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd, and in the feature film The Stepfather. In the course of more than two decades as a professional actress, Charles has been privileged to work with such gifted individuals as Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Martin Sheen, Blythe Danner and Academy Award-winning directors Steven Spielberg, Mike Nichols and Francis Ford Coppola. Charles is a marathon runner, resides in Los Angeles, and is the proud mother of two fine sons: Charlie, an assistant Manhattan district attorney, and Will, also a professional actor.
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