Annalee Jefferies

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Annalee Jefferies
Born	(1954-05-14) May 14, 1954 (age 67) Houston, Texas
Alma mater	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Annalee Jefferies (born May 14, 1954) is an American stage actress.

Early years[]

Jefferies' father was a ranch manager, and her mother was artistically inclined. She lived in Texas her first 11 years, then moved with her family to Australia. They returned to the United States when she was 15. She was active in drama in high school and college before refining her talent at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.^[1]

Career[]

Jefferies was in the nine-hour trilogy of Horton Foote's Orphan’s Home Cycle in New York, directed by Michael Wilson, which won the Drama Desk Award for Theatrical Event of the Season of 2010. She played Blanche in Streetcar Named Desire, Violet in Suddenly Last Summer, Hannah in Night of the Iguana, Carol in Orpheus Descending, and Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, which was among the Wall Street Journal’s best 10 productions of 2009.

She toured England in John Barton’s ten hour epic Tantalus, directed by Sir Peter Hall. She spent 20 years as a resident company member at the Alley Theatre (1986-2007) and 3 years as a resident company member at the Arena Stage (1978-1981). Her film credits include Hellion, Arlo and Julie, The Sideways Light, The Girl, Monsters, Violets Are Blue, and No Mercy.

On television, Jefferies appeared in Dallas, and War of The Worlds.

She currently^[when?] lives on a farm in Brenham, Texas.

Film and television[]

• - Tess (Dir: )
• - Dr. Christina Glenka (Dir: )
• - Ruth (Dir: )
• Hellion - Fran (Dir: Kat Candler)
• - Carina (Dir: Steve Robin)
• - Carina (Dir: Jesse Bochco)
• Ain't Them Bodies Saints (film 2013) - Mary (Dir: David Lowery)
• - Gloria (Dir: David Riker)
• - Molly (Dir: )
• Monsters - Homeless Woman (Dir: Gareth Edwards)
• Walker, Texas Ranger - Molly (Dir: Tony Mordente)
• Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life - Flood Phillips (Dir: Peter Werner)
• L. A. Law "Dances With Sharks" - Janice Long (Dir: David Carson)
• No Mercy - Susan (Dir: Richard Pearce)
• Violets Are Blue - Sally (Dir: Jack Fisk)
• Charlie's Angels - Joan Freeman (Dir: Larry Doheny)

New York stage[]

Playwrights Horizons[]

• What Didn't Happen - Elaine (Dir: Michael Wilson)

Regional stage[]

Royal Shakespeare Company, Denver Performing Arts Complex[]

• Tantalus - Helen of Troy, Clytemnestra, Andromache, Ilione (Dir: Sir Peter Hall, Edward Hall)^[2]

Hartford Stage Company[]

• - Lucretia, Viola, Grace, Madge (Dir: Michael Wilson)
• The Night of the Iguana - Hannah Jelkes
• A Streetcar Named Desire - Blanche DuBois
• Seascape - Sara (Dir: Mark Lamos)
• Three Sisters - Olga
• Our Town

Hartford Theatreworks[]

• The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion (Dir: Steve Campo)

Williamstown Theatre[]

• Enemy of the People - Mrs. Stockman (Dir: Gerald Freeman)

Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas[]

Dir:

• A Comedy of Errors - Adriana
• Travesties - Nadya
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Nurse Ratchet
• Measure for Measure - Mariana
• Tartuffe - Elmire

Dir: Michael Wilson

• A Streetcar Named Desire - Blanche DuBois
• Angels in America - Harper Pitt
• Lips Together, Teeth Apart - Chloe
• Dancing at Lughnasa - Kate

Dir: Misc

• Hedda Gabler - Hedda (Dir: Gerald Freeman)
• A View from the Bridge - Beatrice (Dir: )
• Death and the Maiden - Paulina Salas (Dir: )
• Our Town - Mrs. Webb (Dir: José Quintero)
• Danton's Death - Marion (Dir: Robert Wilson)
• - Fanny Brice (Dir: Anne Bogart)
• - Georgia (Dir: )
• Henceforward... U.S. Premier - Nan 300F, Corrina (Dir: Alan Ayckbourn)
• A Lie of the Mind - Beth (Dir: George Anderson)

Great Lakes Theatre Festival[]

• Antony and Cleopatra - Cleopatra (Dir: Gerald Freeman)
• Uncle Vanya - Sonya

Long Wharf Theatre[]

• Tobacco Road - Elly May (Dir: Arvin Brown)

Arena Stage, Washington D.C.[]

• God Bless You Mr. Rosewater - Mary Moody (Dir: Howard Ashman, )
• Kean - Anna Danby (Dir: )
• The Man Who Came to Dinner - Maggie Cutler (Dir: )
• An American Tragedy - Roberta Alden (Dir: Michael Lessac)
• Don Juan - Mautherine (Dir: Liviu Ciulei)
• After The Fall - Maggie (Dir: )

Public theatre[]

• Aunt Dan and Lemon - Understudy: Aunt Dan, Mother

See also[]

• Royal Shakespeare Company
• Denver Performing Arts Complex
• Playwrights Horizons
• Long Wharf Theatre

References[]

External links[]

• Annalee Jefferies at IMDb
• The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue review from In Newsweekly
• The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue review from Theater Mania
• Best Actress, Annalee Jefferies in Bad Dates - HoustonPress 2005: Arts & Entertainment
• Annalee Jefferies Endures Bad Dates for Hartford Stage Run
• Bad Dates a one-woman show, reviewed by Hartford Advocate
• 18 Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana opens at Hartford Stage reviewed by Hartford Advocate
• The Night of the Iguana review from The Boston Phoenix
• 8 By Tenn review from The Portland Phoenix
• Annalee Jeffries Joins Mandy Patinkin in Williamstown Enemy
• Alley Theater, Annalee Jefferies.
• What Didn't Happen, A CurtainUp Review
• Tantalus, A CurtainUp Review
• Tantalus, review by Philip Fisher (2001), The British Theatre Guide
• Tantalus, review by J.T. Bowen, May 5, 2001, Centerstage Chicago
• Alley takes classic Streetcar to a bold new level
• Six people freed from death row tell tales of injustice in The Exonerated
• Interviewed by Dean Dalton at KUHF Radio, Houston, Texas - March 21, 2002 (Real Audio Media). kuhf.org
• Annalee Jefferies at the ITDb
• Annalee Jefferies New York Times Filmography
• Annalee Jefferies Google Search
• Annalee's Web Site