Harvey Brownstone Interviews Brenda Vaccaro, Legendary Stage, Screen and TV Star

Harvey Brownstone Interviews...

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Brenda Vaccaro, Legendary Stage, Screen and TV Star

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Brenda Vaccaro, guest is a legendary actress whose many unforgettable performances spanning over 6 decades on the stage, in the movies and on TV have brought her world wide acclaim.

She won a Theater World Award in 1962 for her Broadway debut in "Everybody Loves Opal". She then received 3 Tony Award nominations for her performances on Broadway in "Cactus Flower," "How Now, Dow Jones," and "The Goodbye People."

She received a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1970 for Most Promising Female Newcomer for her very first movie role in “Where It’s At”. For her performance in “Midnight Cowboy”, she received Best Supporting Actress nominations for a Golden Globe Award AND a Laurel Award.

And a few years later, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and she WON a Golden Globe Award for her brilliant portrayal of “Linda” in “Once is not Enough”. She earned a Saturn Award nomination for her work in “Capricorn One”.

And she’s co-starred in many other great movies including “I Love My Wife”, “Going Home”, “The House By the Lake”, “Airport ‘77”, “The First Deadly Sin”, “Love Affair”, “The Mirror Has Two Faces”, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and one of my all-time favourite romantic comedies, “Boynton Beach Club”. For her work on television, she won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in “The Shape of Things”.

And she received 3 more Emmy Award nominations for her work in “Sara”, “The Golden Girls” and the highly acclaimed mini-series, “You Don’t Know Jack”, for which she also won a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress AND a nomination for an Online Film and Television Association Award.

Her television credits also include “Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg”, “Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones”, “A Long Way Home”, “Paper Dolls”, “Gypsy”, and many more shows. And of course, she’s renowned for her voice work in “The Smurfs”, “The Critic” and “Johnny Bravo”. In 1992, our guest was named the "Queen of Brooklyn" at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival. And in 2001 she received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Italian Film Association.

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