Lindsay Crouse
Lindsay Crouse | |
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Born | Lindsay Ann Crouse May 12, 1948 (age 75) Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
Education | Harvard University |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1972–present |
Spouses | |
Children | 2, including Zosia Mamet |
Parent | Russel Crouse (father) |
Relatives | Timothy Crouse (brother) John Erskine (maternal grandfather) |
Lindsay Ann Crouse (born May 12, 1948)
Early life
Crouse was born at Le Roy Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side,[1][2] the daughter of Anna (née Erskine)[3] and Russel Crouse, the playwright and librettist.[1] Her maternal grandparents were author and educator John Erskine and his wife Pauline Ives.[4][5] Lindsay Ann Crouse's full name is an intentional tribute to the Broadway writing partnership of Lindsay and Crouse, which consisted of her father and his writing partner, Howard Lindsay. The two wrote much of The Sound of Music.[6] Their 1946 play State of the Union won that year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Their last collaboration was Mr. President in 1962. As Crouse has said: "In our family, the work ethic was held up as some kind of byword ... At any hour, somebody's typewriter was going."[7]
Career
After graduating from the Chapin School in 1966[8] and Radcliffe College in 1970,[7] Crouse began her performing career as a modern and jazz dancer, but she soon switched to acting and made her Broadway debut in Much Ado About Nothing in 1972.[9] She received her acting training at HB Studio[10] in New York City.
Crouse's film career began in 1976, with small roles in television and theatrical movies. In 1977, she appeared as Lily Braden, the discontented wife of hockey player Ned Braden in
Crouse has appeared in featured and guest roles in a number of television series. Notable roles include a recurring portrayal of Kate McBride, a lesbian police officer on .
In recent years, Crouse has concentrated on the theater. "Once you get your driver's license, you end your film career," says Crouse. "Look at my generation. Great actresses like Glenn Close and Susan Sarandon—there's nothing written for anyone over a certain age."[13] In 2007, Crouse opened a revival of The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman show about the life of poet Emily Dickinson, at the Gloucester Stage in Gloucester, Massachusetts. "You can't stop and recite something," says Crouse. "You have to keep the poetry very, very active, which is pretty easy with Dickinson. She was striving so hard to understand what life was about. It's very dramatic poetry in that way.[14]
Crouse appeared in Lee Blessing's Going to St. Ives with the Gloucester Stage Company during the summer of 2008[15] and provided the narration for Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place, a documentary film about Virginia Lee Burton.[16] In 2021, she appeared in a limited engagement of Mornings at Seven at Broadway's Theatre at St. Clements.[17]
Personal life
After a relationship with Robert Duvall,[18] Crouse married playwright David Mamet in 1977. The two had met during the production on Slap Shot.[19] John Lahr writes in his book Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles that when Mamet married Crouse in 1977, he "married into show business aristocracy". Lahr also writes that Mamet received his first screenwriting assignment through Crouse. Crouse was on her way to audition for Bob Rafelson's 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice, and jokingly Mamet told Crouse to tell Rafelson that "he was a fool if he didn't hire me to write the screenplay." But Crouse said this to Rafelson, who called Mamet; when the director asked why he should hire him for the screenplay, Mamet replied, "Because I'll give you a good screenplay or a sincere apology." Mamet received the job.[20] She and Mamet divorced in 1990.[21] Their marriage produced two daughters, Willa and Zosia Mamet.
Crouse's brother is Timothy Crouse, author of The Boys on the Bus about political journalism during the 1972 presidential campaign.
Buddhist beliefs
Crouse is a
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1976 | All the President's Men | Kay Eddy | |
1977 | Slap Shot | Lily Braden | |
1977 | Between the Lines | Abbie | |
1981 | Prince of the City
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Carla Ciello | |
1982 | The Verdict | Kaitlin Costello | |
1983 | Krull | Princess Lyssa (voice) | |
1983 | Daniel | Rochelle Isaacson | |
1984 | Iceman | Dr. Diane Brady | |
1984 | Places in the Heart | Margaret Lomax | |
1987 | House of Games | Margaret Ford | |
1989 | Brave Irene | Narrator (voice) | Short film |
1989 | Communion | Anne Strieber | |
1990 | Desperate Hours | Brenda Chandler | |
1994 | Being Human | Janet | |
1995 | Bye Bye Love | Grace Damico | |
1995 | The Indian in the Cupboard | Jane | |
1996 | The Juror | Tallow | |
1996 | The Arrival | Ilana Green | |
1997 | Prefontaine | Elfriede Prefontaine | |
1998 | Progeny | Dr. Susan Lamarche | |
1999 | Stranger in My House | Patti Young | |
1999 | The Insider | Sharon Tiller | |
2000 | One Hell of a Guy | Judge Davis | |
2001 | Almost Salinas | Allie | |
2001 | Impostor
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Chancellor | |
2002 | Cherish | Therapist | |
2007 | Mr. Brooks | Captain Lister | |
2013 | Somewhere Slow | Katherine Franklin |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1976 | Eleanor and Franklin | Marjorie Bennett | TV film |
1976 | The Tenth Level | Karen | TV film |
1977 | Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | Marjorie Bennett | TV film |
1980 | Paul's Case | First Actress | TV film |
1981 | Summer Solstice | Young Maggie Burnside | TV film |
1982 | Kennedy's Children | Rona | TV film |
1985 | ABC Afterschool Special | Louise Sanders | Episode: "I Want to Go Home" |
1986–1987 | Hill Street Blues | Kate McBride | Recurring role (5 episodes) |
1987 | The Equalizer | Sarah McGee | Episode: "Solo" |
1988 | American Playhouse | Ronnie | Episode: "Lemon Sky" |
1989 | Columbo | Dr. Joan Allenby | Episode: "Sex and the Married Detective" |
1989 | CBS Summer Playhouse | Annie Holscher | Episode: "American Nuclear" |
1990 | Everyday Heroes | Janet Florine | TV film |
1990 | Lifestories | Rebecca McManus | Episode: "Rebecca McManus and Steve Arnold" |
1990 | L.A. Law | Sharon Cummings | Episode: "Outward Bound" |
1992 | Batman: The Animated Series | Mrs. Grant (voice) | Episode: "I've Got Batman in My Basement" |
1993 | Murder, She Wrote | Louise Anderson-Crowe | Episode: "Killer Radio" |
1993 | Civil Wars | Dianne Ralston | Episodes: "Captain Kangaroo Court", "A Liver Runs Through It" |
1993 | Chantilly Lace | Rheza | TV film |
1993 | Final Appeal | Dana Cartier | TV film |
1993 | Law & Order | Diane Meade | Episode: "Promises to Keep" |
1993 | The Halloween Tree | Additional Voices | TV film |
1994 | Out of Darkness | Kim Donaldson | TV film |
1994 | Traps | Laura Parkhurst | Recurring role (5 episodes) |
1994 | L.A. Law | Sharon Cummings | Episode: "Finish Line" |
1994 | Parallel Lives | Una Pace | TV film |
1995 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Anna Leone | Episode: "Between Mother and Daughter" |
1996 | ER | Dr. Anna Castiglioni | Episode: "Baby Shower" |
1996 | Norma Jean & Marilyn | Natasha Lytess | TV film |
1996 | If These Walls Could Talk | Frances White | Segment, "1996" |
1996 | Millennium | Ardis Cohen | Episode: "Kingdom Come" |
1996–1997 | NYPD Blue | Jane Wallace | Episodes: "Ted and Carey's Bogus Adventure", "Alice Doesn't Fit Here Anymore" |
1998 | Brimstone | Dr. Julia Martin | Episode: "Heat" |
1999 | Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder | Caroline Ingalls | TV film |
1999 | The Outer Limits | Gwen Sawyer | Episode: " Tribunal "
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1999 | Touched by an Angel | Kate | Episode: "Such a Time as This" |
1999 | Law & Order | Judge Denise Grobman | Episode: "DNR" |
1999–2000 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Prof. Maggie Walsh | Recurring role (9 episodes) |
2001 | The Warden | Maureen Redmond | TV film |
2001-2002 | Providence | Lauren MacKenzie | Recurring role (4 episodes) |
2002 | Frasier | Peg | Episodes: "Juvenilia", "The Proposal" |
2002 | The Division | Donna B. / Julie M. | Episode: "Forgive Me, Father" |
2002 | Alias | Dr. Carson Evans | Episode: "The Prophecy" |
2002 | Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder | Caroline Ingalls | TV film |
2002 | Arliss | Sharon 'Sydney' Perelli | Episode: "The Immortal" |
2003 | Hack | Beth Kulvicki | Episodes: "Forgive, But Don't Forget", "Black Eye", "Sinners and Saints", "All Others Pay Cash" |
2003 | Dragnet
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Captain Ruth Hagermann | Recurring role (6 episodes) |
2004 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Dr. Mona Lavelle | Episode: "Ch-Ch-Changes" |
2005 | Law & Order | Judge Deirdre Hellstrom | Episode: "Red Ball" |
2005 | Criminal Minds | Mary Mays | Episode: "Blood Hungry" |
2007 | Drive | The Boss | Episode: "Rearview" |
2009–2011 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Judge Andrews | Recurring role (7 episodes) |
2010 | FlashForward | Mrs. Kirby | Episodes: "Revelation Zero: Parts 1 & 2" |
References
- ^ ProQuest 1335213290.
There's only a difference of one word between Lindsay and Crouse and Lindsay Ann Crouse, and that's the name Russel Crouse has given the baby girl born to his wife Wednesday night at the Le Roy Hospital.
- ProQuest 1335213290.
Move actress Marlene Dietrich became a grandmother yesterday when her 24-year-old daughter, Mrs. William Riva, gave birth to an eight-pound boy. The film star visited Le Roy Hospital, 40 E. 61st St., to see her new grandson.
- ^ Weber, Bruce (January 6, 2014). "Anna E. Crouse, 97, Dies; Championed Discount Tickets for Broadway". The New York Times.
- ^ Newsweek – Google Books. 1945. Retrieved April 24, 2013 – via Google Books.
- ^ Hamersly, Lewis Randolph; Leonard, John William; Mohr, William Frederick; Knox, Herman Warren; Holmes, Frank R.; Downs, Winfield Scott (1938). Who's who in New York City and State – Lewis Randolph Hamersly – Google Books. Retrieved April 24, 2013 – via Google Books.
- ^ Killeen, Wendy. "Crouse plays the belle." Boston Globe. July 22, 2007
- ^ a b "Lindsay Crouse keeps up a Family Stage Tradition." New York Times. January 2, 1981.
- ISBN 9780230378728– via Google Books.
- ISBN 978-0-306-44949-9.
- ^ HB Studio Alumni
- ^ Clements, Warren. "A Master in the Art of the Con." The Globe and Mail. August 31, 2007
- ^ Maya Salam (November 29, 2019). "The Very (Very) Slow Rise of Lesbianism on TV - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
- ^ Beggy, Carol and Mark Shanahan. "Crouse: No complaints." Boston Globe. July 20, 2007.
- ^ "The 'belle' of Gloucester." Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Innews Weekly. July 25, 2007.
- ^ Pope, Jeff. "Gloucester Stage Company plans five plays, Sunday readings for 29th season." Archived January 24, 2013, at archive.today Gloucester Times. April 18, 2008.]
- ^ "North Shore Film Festival wraps up on May 8 and 9." Archived February 9, 2013, at archive.today Wicked Local Manchester. May 7, 2008.]
- ^ "Morning's at Seven Revival to Star Lindsay Crouse, Judith Ivey, Patty McCormack, and More | TheaterMania". www.theatermania.com. September 2021. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
- People. Archived from the originalon November 4, 2013. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
- ^ "For Mamet and Crouse, A Movie is a Family Affair." New York Times. October 11, 1987.
- ISBN 9780520233775.
- ^ "David Mamet (1947–)." Theatre Database.
- ^ McCarthy, Gail. "Actress brings third annual Buddhist retreat to Rockport." Archived January 25, 2013, at archive.today Gloucester Daily Times. July 23, 2007.
- ^ "The Summer Retreat with Ven. Sumati Marut, Cindy Lee, Rick Blue, Lindsay Crouse".
- ^ McCarthy, Gail. McCarthy. "Actress brings Buddhist retreat to Windhover." Glouster Daily Times. August 25, 2005.