Jo Van Fleet (December 30, 1914 – June 10, 1996) was an American award-winning theater and film actress.
Van Fleet established herself as a notable dramatic actress on Broadway over several years, winning a Tony Award in 1954 for her skill in a difficult role, playing an unsympathetic, even abusive character, in Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful with Lillian Gish and Eva Marie Saint.
Her first film role was playing the mother of the James Dean character in East of Eden (1955). This debut performance earned Van Fleet an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her subsequent film work was very sporadic, and included such films as The Rose Tattoo, I'll Cry Tomorrow (both 1955), The King and Four Queens (1956), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Wild River (1960), Cool Hand Luke (1967), and I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968).
Van Fleet was married to William Bales from 1946 until his death in 1990, and was the mother of Michael Bales, who survived her. She died in Queens, New York of undisclosed causes at the age of 81.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Patricia Neal (1947) · Shirley Booth (1949) · Maureen Stapleton (1951) · Marian Winters (1952) · Beatrice Straight (1953) · Jo Van Fleet (1954) · Patricia Jessel (1955) · Una Merkel (1956) · Peggy Cass (1957) · Anne Bancroft (1958) · Julie Newmar (1959) · Anne Revere (1960) · Colleen Dewhurst (1961) · Elizabeth Ashley (1962) · Sandy Dennis (1963) · Barbara Loden (1964) · Alice Ghostley (1965) · Zoe Caldwell (1966) · Marian Seldes (1967) · Zena Walker (1968) · Jane Alexander (1969) · Blythe Danner (1970) · Rae Allen (1971) · Elizabeth Wilson (1972) · Leora Dana (1973) · Frances Sternhagen (1974) · Rita Moreno (1975)
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NAME
Fleet, Jo Van
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
Actress
DATE OF BIRTH
December 30, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH
Oakland, California, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
June 10, 1996
PLACE OF DEATH
Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, U.S.
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Categories: 1914 births | 1996 deaths | American film actors | American stage actors | Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winners | Hollywood Walk of Fame | People from Oakland, California
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