安娜史密斯

安娜史密斯
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Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is currently the artist-in-residenceat the Center for American Progress. Smith is widely known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in The West Wing(2000–06), and as hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtimeseries Nurse Jackie (2009–15). She is a recipient of The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize(2013), one of the richest prizes in the American arts, with a remuneration of $300,000, and was named the Jefferson Lecturer for 2015.

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BornSeptember 18, 1950(age 67)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.OccupationActress, playwright, professorWebsiteOfficial website
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Early life

Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Anna Rosalind (néeYoung), an elementary school principal, and Deaver Young Smith, Jr., a coffee merchant.She has four younger siblings. Smith is an alumna of the historic Western High School.She then studied acting at Beaver College (now Arcadia University), graduating in 1971. She received her M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California.

Career

Theater

At the beginning of her career, Smith appeared in a wide range of stage productions, including the role of Mistress Quickly in an Off-Broadwayproduction of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor with the Riverside Shakespeare Company,produced by Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival, set in New Orleans in post-Civil WarAmerica. For the role, Smith transformed herself into a "Cajun voodoo woman," an indication of the actress' transformational power that would manifest itself in her future work.

Smith is best known for her "documentary theatre" style in plays such as Fires in the Mirrorand Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, both of which featured Smith as the sole performer of multiple and diverse characters and won her the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show two years in a row. Fires in the Mirrordealt with the 1991 Crown Heights riot; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992dealt with the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Both of these plays were constructed using material solely from interviews. House Arrest(2000) and Let Me Down Easy(2008) continued in this style.

Let Me Down Easy, which explored the resiliency and vulnerability of the human body, debuted at the Long Wharf Theatre in January 2008.It was also performed at the American Repertory Theaterin September and October 2008.A revised version of the show had its New York City premiere Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre in October 2009and enjoyed favorable reviews and an extension into January 2010.It was also a featured program as part of PBS's Great Performancesseries on January 13, 2012. She debuted her one-woman play, The Arizona Project in Phoenix, Arizona, in November 2008. The piece, which explored "women's relationships to justice and the law," was commissioned by Bruce Ferguson, director of Future Arts Research (F.A.R.), a new artist-driven research program at Arizona State University in Phoenix.

As of July 2009, Smith is the artist-in-residencewith the Center for American Progress and is developing a new show called The Americans, which documents change in Washington, D.C.

In Spring 2012, Smith was the first artist-in-residence at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, a program founded by the Very Rev Jane Shaw, Dean of Grace Cathedral, who shared Smith's vision of "bringing together art and religion".Commissioned by Grace Cathedral and the Cockayne Fund, Smith wrote and performed the play, On Grace, based on interviews relating to the meaning of God's grace. The performances were accompanied by American cellist Joshua Roman.