(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 05 - The perfidious Andrea Whiting in the soap Waiting for tomorrow and the cynical Rita of Amarti in New York. And then also So the world turns (she was Greta Aldrin), Love of Life (she played twins), A life to live, At the end of the night, When you love, Law and Order and ER - Medici in primalinea. But also many roles in the theater, from Moliere to Shakespeare, and in musicals. Actress, Broadway star and American voice actress Joan Copeland died on the threshold of 100 years. His son Eric Kupchik announced it.
Copeland was Arthur Miller's sister (his niece is the director and actress Rebecca Miller) but just to avoid exploiting her brother's popularity she had chosen a stage name.
Joan Copeland and her ex-sister-in-law Marilyn Monroe were both born on 1 June: in 1922 and 1926 respectively.
He was one of the first members of the Actors Studio, making his debut in the film The Divine in 1958 and continued acting in twenty films but preferred the theater. and television.
He won the 1980 Drama Desk Award for "The American Clock" written by Miller, the Los Angeles DramaCritics Award for "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1983) and the Obie Award for "The American Plan" (1990).
She starred alongside Ralph Bellamy and Edward Binns in Sidney Kingsley's Detective Story, and was Katharine Hepburn's replacement as Coco Chanel in the musical Coco, which ran for more than 320 plays from 1969-70.
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