Annalee Jefferies is an American stage actress.

Annalee Jefferies
Born
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art

Early years

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Jefferies' father was a ranch manager, and her mother was artistically inclined. She lived in Texas her first 11 years, then moved with her family to Australia. They returned to the United States when she was 15. She was active in drama in high school and college before refining her talent at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.[1]

Career

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Jefferies was in the nine-hour trilogy of Horton Foote's Orphan’s Home Cycle in New York, directed by Michael Wilson, which won the Drama Desk Award for Theatrical Event of the Season of 2010. She played Blanche in Streetcar Named Desire, Violet in Suddenly Last Summer, Hannah in Night of the Iguana, Carol in Orpheus Descending, and Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, which was among the Wall Street Journal’s best 10 productions of 2009.

She toured England in John Barton’s ten hour epic Tantalus, directed by Sir Peter Hall. She spent 20 years as a resident company member at the Alley Theatre (1986–2007) and 3 years as a resident company member at the Arena Stage (1978–1981). Her film credits include Hellion, Arlo and Julie, The Sideways Light, The Girl, Monsters, Violets Are Blue, and No Mercy.

On television, Jefferies appeared in Dallas, and War of The Worlds.

She currently[when?] lives on a farm in Brenham, Texas.

Film and television

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New York stage

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Playwrights Horizons

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Regional stage

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Royal Shakespeare Company, Denver Performing Arts Complex

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Hartford Stage Company

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Hartford Theatreworks

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Williamstown Theatre

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Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas

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1 woman play - Bad Dates

Dir: Gregory Boyd

Dir: Michael Wilson

Dir: Misc

Great Lakes Theatre Festival

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Long Wharf Theatre

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Arena Stage, Washington D.C.

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Public theatre

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "CAL". Hartford Courant. Connecticut, Hartford. April 16, 2009. p. CAL 15. Retrieved 25 July 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ The New York Times Theatre Reviews, 1999-2000. Taylor & Francis. 2001. pp. 400–401. ISBN 9780415936972. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
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