Dennis, Sandy
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Birthname | Sandra Dale Dennis | ||||
born on | 27 April 1937 at 19:17 (= 7:17 PM ) | ||||
Place | Hastings, Nebraska, 40n35, 98w23 | ||||
Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American actress who received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the comedy-drama film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). She was awarded two Best Actress Tony awards, for A Thousand Clowns (1963) and Any Wednesday (1964). Other films include Up the Down Staircase and The Out-of-Towners.
Dennis had a relationship with jazzman Gerry Mulligan from 1965 to 1974; one miscarriage. In 1967 she rented a seven-bedroom house in Connecticut where she lived with her mother, three dogs and 37 cats. Eric Roberts, almost 20 years younger, was her companion for five years.
According to Roberts, Dennis told him she had many lesbian relationships and that she "appreciated the beauty of women. But she also liked and appreciated what a very, very young man could do to a woman, I suppose."
She had surgery and chemotherapy for cancer in 1989, and died of ovarian cancer at age 54 on 2 March 1992 in Westport, Connecticut.
Relationships
- friend relationship with Cher (born 20 May 1946)
- spousal equivalent relationship with Roberts, Eric (born 18 April 1956)
Events
- Work : Prize 1963 (Tony award)
- Work : Prize 1964 (Tony award)
- Other Relationship 1965 (Companion with Gerry Mulligan ten years)
- Work : Prize 1966 (Oscar for Best Supporting Actress)
- Family : Change residence 1967 (Rented home in Connecticut)
- Health : Medical procedure 1989 (Surgery, chemo for ovarian cancer)
Source Notes
LMR quotes her in June 1985, from B.C.
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Ovarian)
- Family : Relationship : Married late/never (Never)
- Family : Relationship : Mate - Age difference more than 15 yrs (Eric Roberts 20 years younger, five years)
- Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted (Gerry Mulligan)
- Family : Parenting : Birthing - Miscarriages (One miscarriage)
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Animals, pets (Three dogs, 37 cats)
- Passions : Sexuality : Bi-Sexual
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Ovarian cancer)
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage (Legitimate theater)
- Notable : Awards : Oscar (One)
- Notable : Awards : Tony (Two)
- Notable : Book Collection : Profiles Of Women
- 1937 births
- Birthday 27 April
- Birthplace Hastings, NE (US)
- Sun 7 Taurus
- Moon 3 Sagittarius
- Asc 6 Scorpio
- 1992 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer
- Family : Relationship : Married late/never
- Family : Relationship : Mate - Age difference more than 15 yrs
- Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted
- Family : Parenting : Birthing - Miscarriages
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Animals, pets
- Passions : Sexuality : Bi-Sexual
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage
- Notable : Awards : Oscar
- Notable : Awards : Tony
- Notable : Book Collection : Profiles Of Women