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Anna Marie Duke Wiki Biography

• Anna Marie Duke was born in Elmhurst, New York, on December 14, 1946, and died in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on March 29, 2016. 
• She was an actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television. 
• Duke received an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards during his career. 
• Patty was the 21st President of the Screen Actors Guild, and she held the position until 2004 when she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 
• From 1950 to 2015, Patty Duke worked in the entertainment industry. 
• Patty Duke’s net worth was estimated to be $5 million, based on her varied acting career. 
• After an unhappy childhood with an alcoholic father and a depressed mother, she was entrusted to managers John and Ethel Ross when she was eight years old, and they turned her into a child actress. 
• Patty was only 16 years old at the time. 
• She got rid of them when she was 18 years old, only to discover that they had taken most of her money. 
• She also sang in the 1960s, and her song “Do Not Just Stand There” reached number 8 on the Billboard chart (1965). 
• She made a comeback as an actress in the 1970 television film “My Sweet Charlie,” for which she won her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. 
• She primarily performed for television from then on, becoming extremely popular in the 1970s and 1980s. 
• She landed the most important roles – and received nominations or awards for them – in the television mini-series “Captains and the Kings” (1976); TV films “A Family Upside Down” (1978), “Having Babies III” (1978), “The Miracle Worker” (1979), “The Women’s Room” (1980), “The Girl on the Edge of Town” (1981), “Insight” (1984), “George Washington” (1984), and “Touched by an Angel” 
• She was also the author of two books. 
• “Call Me Anna” and “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness” are two books about living with manic depression. 
• Finally, the actress was married three times: the first time to Harry Falk (1965-1969), the second time to John Astin (1972-1985), and the third time to Michael Pearce. 
• She had two children in her second marriage and one child in her third. 
• At the age of 69, the actress died of sepsis caused by a ruptured intestine. 

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• [on her plans to speak out about her bypass operation, despite advice not to] My agent may say ix-nay on the bypass but I can’t; that’s me. It’s more important for me to be myself.
• [on where she keeps her Oscar] Oscar was a doorstop; Oscar was in the basement. I went through a period of false humility. I thought if I had Oscar out people would think I was full of myself. Now Oscar is in a beautiful etagere near my front door.
• As the boys grew up, my manias took the form of irritability and unpredictable flashes of rage. It was intense.
• Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone’s words and breathe life into them.
• A lot of us were under the impression that there is only one Sign Language and that it is international!
• From the time Sean [son Sean Astin] was born until I was diagnosed, I was murder to live with. I don’t think I was marriage material at all until seven years ago.
• For the first time, I lived alone… in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days, I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
• [speaking of son Sean Astin and his role in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy] We call that Sean’s little independent movie.
• I subscribe to the theory that says you’re a product of all your experiences. And I am finally, most of the time, happy with the product. I now think it is OK to be Patty Duke.
• I’ve beaten my own bad system, and on some days, most days, that feels like a miracle.
• [on her wardrobe on The Patty Duke Show (1963)] Not only did I hate those clothes, but they put my name on some and successfully merchandised them, so a lot of other poor girls were walking around with the same ugly clothes I had to wear.

Anna Marie Duke Important Facts

• Upon her death, she was cremated, alongside her mother, at Forest Cemetery in Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai County, Idaho, and her ashes were given to her family.
• Her paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants. Her mother was of three quarters Irish and one quarter German ancestry.
• As a youngster, she would appear on amateur nights at the Elks club #878 in Elmhurst, Queens where she lived.
• She was widely known to be a very private lady.
• Was one of 22 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of New York. The others are Alice Brady, Teresa Wright, Anne Revere, Celeste Holm, Claire Trevor, Judy Holliday, Shirley Booth, Susan Hayward, Anne Bancroft, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Lee Grant, Beatrice Straight, Whoopi Goldberg, Mercedes Ruehl, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Connelly, Melissa Leo, and Anne Hathaway.
• Was one of 20 actresses who did not receive an Oscar nomination for their Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe-winning performance; hers being for Me, Natalie (1969). The others, in chronological order, are June Allyson for Too Young to Kiss (1951), Ethel Merman for Call Me Madam (1953), Jean Simmons for Guys and Dolls (1955), Taina Elg and Kay Kendall for Les Girls (1957), Marilyn Monroe for Some Like It Hot (1959), Rosalind Russell for A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962), Twiggy for The Boy Friend (1971), Raquel Welch for The Three Musketeers (1973), Barbra Streisand for A Star Is Born (1976), Bernadette Peters for Pennies from Heaven (1981), Kathleen Turner for Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi’s Honor (1985), Miranda Richardson for Enchanted April (1991), Jamie Lee Curtis for True Lies (1994), Nicole Kidman for To Die For (1995), Madonna for Evita (1996), Renée Zellweger for Nurse Betty (2000), Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), and Amy Adams for Big Eyes (2014).
• Was friends with William Schallert.
• When receiving her Academy Awards statuette for Miracle Worker, back in 1962, she is recorded for having the shortest talk of all Academy Awards history ceremonies. She just said: “Thank You” and got away.
• Was the 56th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for The Miracle Worker (1962) at The 35th Annual Academy Awards (1963) on April 8, 1963.
• Became a grandmother for the third time at age 58 when her son Sean Astin and his wife Christine Astin welcomed a daughter, Isabella Louise Astin on July 22, 2005.
• Became a grandmother for the second time at age 55 when her son Sean Astin and his wife Christine Astin welcomed a daughter, Elizabeth Louise Astin on August 6, 2002.
• Became a grandmother for the first time at age 49 when her son Sean Astin and his wife Christine Astin welcomed a daughter, Ali Astin on November 27, 1996.
• Gave birth to her second child at age 26, a son Mackenzie Alexander Astin (aka Mackenzie Astin) on May 12, 1973. The child’s father is her third ex-husband, John Astin.
• Gave birth to her first child at age 24, a son Sean Patrick Duke (aka Sean Astin) on February 25, 1971. The child’s father is her second ex-husband, Michael Tell.
• Received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Maryland on March 6, 2010.
• Received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida on December 14, 2007.
• Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on August 17, 2004.
• She had made guest appearances on both Hawaii Five-O (1968) and Hawaii Five-0 (2010).
• Sean Patrick Astin was born February 25, 1971, in Santa Monica, California to Patty Duke. This was long reported that his father was John Astin (famous for playing Gomez on “The Addams Family” (1964) among other things) whom Duke married nearly 18 months later on August 5, 1972. DNA testing later proved that his biological father was Michael Tell, to whom Duke was shortly married (June 26-July 9, 1970) before the marriage was annulled.
• Her mother, Frances Duke, died in 1993.
• Moved, with husband Michael Pearce, to Idaho in 1990.
• Though she professionally went by Patty Duke, to friends she was Anna (her birth name) Pearce (her married last name).
• Although she had been on stage and in film for over five years at the time she appeared in Valley of the Dolls (1967), she said it was her co-star Sharon Tate who taught her how to use make-up to her best advantage.
• At the time she won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar, she was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar in a competitive category. (In 1973, Tatum O’Neal became the youngest person to win a competitive Academy Awards at age 10). This is partially because AMPAS discontinued their practice of awarding miniature Oscars to “child” actors following Hayley Mills’ mini-statuette in 1961 for Pollyanna (1960), allowing actors of all ages to compete for “regular” Academy Awards.
• Early in her career, she won the top prize on the game show The $64,000 Question (1955).
• She won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), making her one of 17 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other sixteen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President’s Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and most recently Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).
• Spoke at the memorial service for her beloved friend and mentor, Miss Anne Bancroft. [June 2005]
• Parents are John Patrick and Frances Duke; her father was an alcoholic and left the family when Patty was very young.
• Underwent single bypass heart surgery on November 3, 2004, at Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
• Sister of Ray Duke and Carol Duke Kennedy. Patty was the youngest of the three.
• Early in her career, she appeared in television commercials, including one for the Remco Movieland Drive-In Theatre toy.
• Won the Theatre World Award for Best Debut Performance for the 1959-1960 Broadway season. She was awarded this honor for her performance as Helen Keller in the stage version of “The Miracle Worker”.
• Grandmother of actress Ali Astin, Isabella Louise Astin, and Elizabeth Louise Astin.
• Has a gold record, “Please, Just Don’t Stand There” (1965) in addition to her acting awards.
• According to her book “Call Me Anna”, she was pregnant and unmarried when she met Michael Tell and she married him to give the unborn child a name. Sean was conceived around the time she was involved with John Astin.
• Her second marriage to Michael Tell came about suddenly during a particular virulent manic attack, ignited by a broken romance with Desi Arnaz Jr. The marriage lasted 13 days.
• She was the youngest actress at the time (12) to have her name above the marquee title on Broadway (“The Miracle Worker”) and the youngest ever (16) to have a television series bearing her name (The Patty Duke Show (1963)).
• Born at 10:39 PM EST.
• President of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) (1985-1988).
• Mother of Sean Astin with Michael Tell and Mackenzie Astin with John Astin.
• Adopted a son, Kevin Pearce (born 1988), with Michael Pearce.
• She had been diagnosed as being manic-depressive, and had co-authored a book about the disorder, “A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness”.

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