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Patti LuPone
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Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer. After starting her professional career with The Acting Company in 1972, she soon gained acclaim for her leading performances on the Broadway and West End stage. Known for playing bold, resilient women in musical theatre, she has received numerous accolades, including three Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards and two Grammy Awards. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2006.
She made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters in 1973. She went on to receive three Tony Awards: two for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles as Eva Perón in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita (1980) and Rose in Gy…
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Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer. After starting her professional career with The Acting Company in 1972, she soon gained acclaim for her leading performances on the Broadway and West End stage. Known for playing bold, resilient women in musical theatre, she has received numerous accolades, including three Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards and two Grammy Awards. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2006. She made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters in 1973. She went on to receive three Tony Awards: two for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles as Eva Perón in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita (1980) and Rose in Gypsy (2008) and one for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Joanne in the Stephen Sondheim revival Company(2022). She was Tony-nominated for The Robber Bridegroom (1975), Anything Goes (1988), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(2006), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010), and War Paint (2017). For her performances on the West End stage, she received two Laurence Olivier Awards: one for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances as Fantine in the original London cast of Les Misérables and Moll in The Cradle Will Rock in 1985, and the second for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical for Company in 2019. She was nominated for her role as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard in 1993. She has two Grammy Awards for the recording of the 2007 Los Angeles Opera production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. On television, she starred in the drama series Life Goes On (1989–1993). She is a two-time Emmy Award Nominee for The Song Spinner (1995) and Frasier (1998). She acted in three Ryan Murphy series: American Horror Story (2013–2014, 2022), Pose (2019), and Hollywood (2020). She also acted in Oz (2003), Will & Grace (2005), 30 Rock (2009–2012), Glee (2011), Girls (2014) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2017), Steven Universe (2016–2019), Penny Dreadful (2014–2016), Agatha All Along (2024), And Just Like That... (2025), The Artist (2025), Palm Royale (2025) and Elsbeth (2026). LuPone's film roles include 1941 (1979), Witness (1985), Driving Miss Daisy(1989), Summer of Sam (1999), State and Main (2000), Heist (2001), and Beau Is Afraid (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Debra Jo Rupp, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Patti LuPone's Filmography
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TOVAH
as Self
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Agatha All Along
as Self - Lilia Calderu
Finally Home: Making Beau is Afraid
as Self
Beau Is Afraid
as Mona Wassermann
Patti LuPone: Songs From a Hat
The School for Good and Evil
as Mrs. Deauville
Keeping Company with Sondheim
as Self / Joanne
Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years
as Self
Show of Titles
as "Anything Goes" Performer
Patti LuPone: Live From the West Side
as Herself
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Fluor
Pose-a-Thon for Pride
as Self
Last Christmas
as Joyce
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Yellow Diamond (voice)
Cliffs of Freedom
as Yia-Yia
Steven Universe: Heart of the Crystal Gems
as Yellow Diamond
The Comedian
as Florence Berkowitz
Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family
as Patti LuPone
Parker
as Ascension
Union Square
as Lucia
Portraits in Dramatic Time
Company
as Joanne
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
as Self
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
as Leocadia Begbick
Audra McDonald and Friends: Build a Bridge
Passion
as Fosca
Candide
as The Old Lady
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
as Reno Sweeney (segment "Anything Goes")
Broadway's Lost Treasures
as Eva Perón (segment "Evita")
City by the Sea
as Maggie
A Little Night Music: Ravinia Festival Concert
as Desiree Armfeldt
The Making of Sweeney Todd at the San Francisco Symphony
as Self
Monday Night Mayhem
as Emmy Cosell
Heist
as Betty Croft
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
as Nellie Lovett
The Victim
as Sandy
Cold Blooded
as Van Klerk
State and Main
as Sherry Bailey
Just Looking
as Sylvia Levine Polinsky
Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
as Miss C. Canzinarra
Summer of Sam
as Helen
The 24 Hour Woman
as Joan Marshall
No Poster
An Evening with Patti LuPone
as Herself
Her Last Chance
as Joanna Saxen
The Song Spinner
as Zantalalia
Family Prayers
as Aunt Nan
Sunset Boulevard: Live at the Sydmonton Festival
as Norma Desmond
The Water Engine
as Rita Lang
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
as Self
Driving Miss Daisy
as Florine Werthan
LBJ: The Early Years
as Claudia Alta 'Lady Bird' Taylor Johnson
Wise Guys
as Wanda Valentini
The Cradle Will Rock
as Moll / Mr. Mister’s Daughter
Witness
as Elaine
Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta
as Rachel Burston
Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983
Fighting Back
as Lisa D'Angelo
No Poster
Command Performance: The Stars Salute the President
as Self
1941
as Lydia Hedberg
King of the Gypsies
as (uncredited)
The Time of Your Life
as Kitty Duval
No Poster
August
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self