ACTOR
Geraldine Page
- Known for
- Hondo (1953), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), White Nights (1985), The Day of the Locust (1975)
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Geraldine Page is an actor best known for Hondo, The Pope of Greenwich Village and White Nights.
8 Facts From Geraldine Page's Career
- #002
In 1985, she became the first woman to win an acting Oscar without having won any of her seven previous nominations. She received her eighth nomination the following year and finally won. As of 2018, the eight nominations she needed for her first win still stands as a record among actresses.
- #004
Geraldine Page received a standing ovation when she won her Oscar.
- #005
Geraldine Page was offered the role of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), but she turned it down. Louise Fletcher was cast instead and won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance.
- #007
At the time of her death, Geraldine Page was starring on Broadway in "Blithe Spirit."
- #009
Among all actors nominated for at least six acting Oscars, Geraldine Page is the only one who never appeared in a film nominated for Best Picture.
- #015
Among all actors and actresses with at least eight Oscar acting nominations, Geraldine Page is the only one whose lead acting nominations do not outnumber her supporting acting nominations, with four of each.
- #016
Geraldine Page became the 92nd actor to win an Oscar, winning the Best Actress Oscar for The Trip to Bountiful (1985) at the 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986) on March 24, 1986.
- #018
When Geraldine Page finished the Broadway play "Strange Interlude," she was one month pregnant with her daughter Angelica Page.
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