Patti LuPone

Acting

Born: 1949-04-21

From: Northport, Long Island, New York, USA

Gender: Female

Popularity: 1.1

Also Known As

پتی لوپون

Biography

Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer, who is best known for her work in stage musicals. She has won two Grammy Awards, two Tony Awards, and two Olivier Awards. She is also a 2006 American Theater Hall of Fame inductee. On television, LuPone played Lady Bird Johnson in the 1987 TV movie, LBJ: The Early Years, starred in the drama series Life Goes On (1989–1993) and received Emmy Award nominations for the TV movie The Song Spinner (1995) and her guest role in the sitcom Frasier (1998). In the 1990s she had a recurring role as defense attorney Ruth Miller on Law & Order. She also had recurring roles in two Ryan Murphy FX series, the thriller American Horror Story: Coven (2013–2014) and the drama Pose (2019), as well as on Murphy's Hollywood on Netflix. She guest starred in Penny Dreadful (2014–2016) before returning in a lead role. She voices the character Yellow Diamond in the animated series Steven Universe (2013–2019) and its epilogue series Steven Universe Future (2019–2020). She also appeared on The CW comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend as Rabbi Shari (2017). LuPone appeared in the Oscar-winning films Witness (1985) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and also was featured in State and Main (2000), Parker (2013), and The Comedian (2016). LuPone has a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and she is famous for her strong/high "Broadway" belt singing voice. In a 2008 interview, she maintained that she was "an actor who sings", and thankful she "had a voice"

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Awards & Nominations13 won · 19 nominated

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

2011

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

2011

🏆 Won

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical

2008

🏆 Won

Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

2008

🏆 Won

Drama League Award

2008

🏆 Won

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

2008

🏆 Won

Grammy Award for Best Classical Album

2008

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Classical Album

2008

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

2008

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

2008

🏆 Won

Drama League Award

2006

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical

2006

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

2006

🏆 Won

Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast

State and Main

2000

🏆 Won

Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast

State and Main

2000

🏆 Won

National Board of Review Award for Best Cast

State and Main

2000

Nominated

National Board of Review Award for Best Cast

State and Main

2000

Nominated

Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast

State and Main

2000

Nominated

Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast

State and Main

2000

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

Frasier

1998

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

1998

Nominated

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical

1994

🏆 Won

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

1988

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical

1988

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

1988

🏆 Won

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical

1985

Nominated

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical

1985

🏆 Won

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical

1980

🏆 Won

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

1980

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

1980

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

1976

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

1976

Patti LuPone

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations13 won · 19 nominated

Acting102 titles

The Time of Your Life

Finally Home: Making Beau is Afraid

Audra McDonald and Friends: Build a Bridge

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Sunset Boulevard: Live at the Sydmonton Festival

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

Keeping Company with Sondheim

The Making of Sweeney Todd at the San Francisco Symphony

The Victim

The Song Spinner

Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta

Hot Ones Versus

On Broadway

Live from Lincoln Center

The Grammys

Steven Universe: Heart of the Crystal Gems

BoJack Horseman

Steven Universe

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

POSE

Steven Universe: The Movie

Steven Universe Future

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Agatha All Along

American Horror Story

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert

Portraits in Dramatic Time

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Simpsons

Penny Dreadful

Remember WENN

Frasier

LBJ: The Early Years

30 Rock

Agatha All Along

Army Wives

Law & Order

In-Laws

Mom

And Just Like That…

Driving Miss Daisy

Candide

Last Christmas

Hollywood

Touched by an Angel

Witness

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert

The School for Good and Evil

CBS News Sunday Morning

The Andros Targets

Company

Cliffs of Freedom

Will & Grace

Saturday Night Live

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

Glee

Elsbeth

Beau Is Afraid

Life Goes On

Summer of Sam

Broadway's Lost Treasures

Ugly Betty

Heist

State and Main

The Artist

Parker

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Great Performances

Monday Night Mayhem

Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family

Her Last Chance

Palm Royale

Just Looking

King of the Gypsies

1941