Joanna Roos
Playwright, Film actor
1901 – 1989
Who was Joanna Roos?
Joanna Roos was an American Broadway, radio, and television actress and a playwright. She was born in Brooklyn in 1901 and attended Syracuse University as well as Yvette Guilbert's School in New York and Paris.
In 1930 Roos performed the role of Sofya Alexandrovna in a classic performance of the Anton Chekhov play "Uncle Vanya" at the Cort Theatre in New York City, a production that one critic called "unforgettable". The show ran for seventy-one performances.
She retired in 1979 from her role as Sarah Dale Caldwell McCauley on the soap opera Love of Life.
She was a founding member of the New Dramatists Committee. Several of the plays she wrote for the group won awards.
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- Born
- Jan 11, 1901
Brooklyn - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- May 13, 1989
Princeton
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on July 23, 2013
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