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Dana Ivey Biography (1942?-)

Full name, Dana Robins Ivey; born August 12, 1942 (some sources cite August 14 or 1941), in Atlanta, GA; daughter of Hugh Daugherty Ivey (a physicist andprofessor) and Mary Nell Ivey Santacroce (an actress, teacher, and speech therapist); maiden name, McKoin). Addresses: Agent: Richard Schmenner, Paradigm, 500 Fifth Ave., 37th Floor, New York, NY 10010.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

Actress, teacher

Birth Details

August 12, 1942?

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• Hermia, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Front Street Theatre, Memphis,TN, 1964-65
• Madame Rosepettle, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet andI'm Feeling So Sad, Front Street Theatre, 1964-65
• Marian's mother, The Music Man (musical), Front Street Theatre, 1964-65
• Mrs. Higgins, My Fair Lady (musical), Front Street Theatre, 1964-65
• Mrs. Teale, Roberta, Front Street Theatre, 1964-65
• Sara, Major Barbara, Front Street Theatre, 1964-65
• Wife, The Seven Year Itch, Front Street Theatre, 1964-65
• Wife and mother, Ah! Wilderness, Front Street Theatre, 1964-65
• Mrs. Mullins, Carousel (musical), Theatre of the Stars, Atlanta, GA, 1965
• Anna, The Firebugs, Canadian Players, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1965-66
• Member of chorus, Murder in the Cathedral, Canadian Players, 1965-66
• Sara Tansey, The Playboy of the Western World, Canadian Players, 1965-66
• Kitty, Charley's Aunt, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1966
• Margaret, Galileo, Manitoba Theatre Centre, 1966
• Mrs. Sowerberry, Oliver! (musical), Theatre of the Stars, 1966
• Solange, The Maids, Manitoba Theatre Centre, 1966
• Title role, Antigone, Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT, 1968
• Lucy Brown, The Threepenny Opera (musical), Hartford Stage Company, 1968
• Amanda, Private Lives, Theatre Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada,1969-70
• Baroness and Clea, White Liars/Black Comedy, Theatre Calgary, 1969-70
• Fay, Loot, Theatre Calgary, 1969-70
• Gillian, Bell, Book, and Candle, Theatre Calgary, 1969-70
• Gwendolyn, The Importance of Being Earnest, Theatre Calgary, 1969-70
• Mia, The Three Desks, Theatre Calgary, 1969-70
• Mrs. Gargary, Great Expectations, Theatre Calgary, 1969-70
• Pioneer woman and singer, You Two Stay Here, the Rest Come with Me, Theatre Calgary, 1969-70
• Emilia, Othello, Centaur Theatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1970-71
• Lill, Revenge, Centaur Theatre, 1970-71
• Miss Moscowitz, The Electronic Nigger, Centaur Theatre, 1970-71
• Mrs. Harford, A Touch of the Poet, Centaur Theatre, 1970-71
• Nurse, The Death of Bessie Smith, Centaur Theatre, 1970-71
• Ruth, The Homecoming, Centaur Theatre, 1970-71
• Sonya, Uncle Vanya, Centaur Theatre, 1970-71
• Claire, The Maids, Centaur Theatre, 1971-72
• Title role, Electra, Centaur Theatre, 1971-72
• Isabelle, Total Eclipse, Centaur Theatre, 1971-72
• Jean, The Entertainer, Centaur Theatre, 1971-72
• Narrator, At the Hawk's Well, Centaur Theatre, 1971-72
• Queen, Full Moon in March, Centaur Theatre, 1971-72
• Woman, The Exception and the Rule, Centaur Theatre, 1971-72
• Gwendolyn Pidgeon, The Odd Couple, Theatre of the Stars, 1972
• Helene, En pieces detachees, Manitoba Theatre Centre, 1973
• Sara, Sunrise on Sara, Festival Lennoxville, Lennoxville, Quebec,Canada, 1973
• Sara, A Touch of the Poet, National Arts Centre, Theatre at St. Lawrence Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1973
• Shen-Te, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Theatre London, London, Ontario, Canada, 1973
• Stella, A Streetcar Named Desire, Manitoba Theatre Centre, 1973
• Woman, Thurber Carnival, Manitoba Theatre Centre, 1973
• Jenny, Everything in the Garden, Druid Cellar Dinner Theatre, 1974
• Nurse, Romeo and Juliet, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA, 1974
• Sister woman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Alliance Theatre, 1974
• Elizabeth Proctor, The Crucible, Alliance Theatre, 1975
• Annie Sullivan, The Miracle Worker, Alliance Theatre, 1976
• Catherine, Great Catherine, Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, 1977
• Title role, Hedda Gabler, Alliance Theatre, 1977
• Lina, Misalliance, Alliance Theatre, 1977
• Mary, All the Way Home, Alliance Theatre, 1977
• Mistress Quickly, Henry IV, Part I, Alliance Theatre, 1977
• Mona, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Alliance Theatre, 1977
• Alma, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Alaska Repertory Theatre, Anchorage, AK, 1978
• Elaine, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Newport Actors Company, Newport, RI, 1978
• Miss Casewell, The Mousetrap, Newport Actors Company, 1978
• Mrs. Linde, A Doll's House, Manitoba Theatre Centre, 1978
• Pearl and Dot, Patio/Porch, Dallas, TX, 1978
• Claire, The Taking Away of Little Willie, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1979
• Elvira, Blithe Spirit, Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1979
• Katherine, The Taming of the Shrew, California Shakespeare Festival, Visalia, CA, 1979
• Lady Capulet, Romeo and Juliet, California Shakespeare Festival, 1979
• Miss Giddens, The Innocents, Vancouver Playhouse, 1979
• Regina, The Little Foxes, Alliance Theatre, 1979
• Julia, The Philanderer, Shaw Festival, 1980
• Lucienne, A Flea in Her Ear, Shaw Festival, 1980
• Andrea, Twinkle, Twinkle, Hartford Stage Company, 1981
• Ellie, Bing and Walker, Peterborough Players, Peterborough, NH, 1981
• Gentlewoman, lady, and witch, Macbeth, Lincoln Center, Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York City, 1981
• Hilda, Am I Blue?, Hartford Stage Company, 1981
• Isabel, A Call from the East, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1981
• Lizzie Borden and actress, Blood Relations, Centaur Theatre, 1981
• Madwoman, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New York City, 1981
• Miss Prism, The Importance of Being Earnest, Peterborough Players,1981
• Renata, Forbidden Copy, Hartford Stage Company, 1981
• Miss Tendesco, Vivien, Arc Theatre, New York City, 1982
• Monica Reed, Present Laughter, Circle in the Square, New York City, 1982-83
• Melanie Garth, Quartermaine's Terms, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, and Playhouse 91, New York City, both 1983
• Nanny, Kate, and principal, Baby with the Bathwater, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1983
• Lady Ariadne Utterword, Heartbreak House, Circle in the Square, 1983-84
• Helen Kroger, Pack of Lies, Royale Theatre, New York City, 1984
• Naomi Eisen and Yvonne, Sunday in the Park with George (musical),Booth Theatre, New York City, 1984-85
• Countess, The Marriage of Figaro, Circle in the Square, 1985
• Daisy Werthan, Driving Miss Daisy, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1987, then John Houseman Theatre, 1987-89
• One of the women, Wenceslas Square, New York Shakespeare Festival,Public Theatre, Martinson Hall, New York City, 1988
• Melissa Gardner, Love Letters, Promenade Theatre, New York City, 1989
• Gertrude, Hamlet, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, Anspacher Theatre, New York City, 1990
• Ma-Noreen, Beggars in the House of Plenty, Manhattan Theatre Club,City Center Theatre Stage II, New York City, 1991
• Nettie Cleary, The Subject Was Roses, Roundabout Theatre Company,New York City, 1991
• Julia Budder, It's Only a Play, Center Theatre Group, James A. Doolittle Theatre, Los Angeles, 1992
• Evelyn, Kindertransport, Manhattan Theatre Club, City Center Theatre Stage I, New York City, 1994
• Naomi Eisen and Yvonne, Sunday in the Park With George (concert performance), St. James Theatre, New York City, 1994
• Sonia, It Changes Every Year [and] Sons and Fathers (two one-acts), Malaparte Theatre Company, New York City, 1994
• Leonie (Leo), Indiscretions (Les Parents Terribles), Royal National Theatre, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1995
• Bridget McCrea, Sex and Longing, Cort Theatre, New York City, 1996
• Boo Levy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Helen Hayes Theatre, New York City, 1997-98
• Mrs. Malaprop, The Rivals, Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1998
• Ms. Amelia Pickles, The Uneasy Chair, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1998
• The Glass Menagerie, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown,MA, 1998
• Madame Pernelle, Tartuffe, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, Delacorte Theatre, New York City, 1999
• The Death of Papa, Hartford Stage Company, 1999
• Sylvia Archibald, Waiting in the Wings, Skylight Productions, Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA, 1999, then Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 1999-2000, later Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City, 2000
• Mademoiselle Colombe (staged reading), Theatre Ten Ten, New York City, 2000
• Lady Britomark Undershaft, Major Barbara, Roundabout Theatre Company, American Airlines Theatre, New York City, 2001
• Big Mama, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Tennessee Williams Explored, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 2003
• Grace, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Roundabout Theatre Company,American Airlines Theatre, 2003
• Under Milk Wood, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Main Stage, 2003
• Lady Northumberland and Mistress Quickly, Henry IV, Lincoln Center, Vivian Beaumont Theater, 2003-2004
• Jubilee: Williamstown Theatre Festival's 50th Anniversary Bash, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Main Stage, 2004
• Lettice and Lovage (benefit performance), Coronet Theatre, West Hollywood, CA, 2004
• Mrs. Malaprop, The Rivals, Lincoln Center, Vivian Beaumont Theater, 2004-2005
• Appeared as the seventh fairy and a palace guard, Sleeping Beauty,Children's Civic Theatre, Atlanta, GA. Appeared in In the Summerhouse, London production; in Richard III, regional production; and in various concerts, including Candida in Concert.
• Major Tours
• Anna, The Firebugs, Canadian Players, Canadian cities, 1966
• Member of chorus, Murder in the Cathedral, Canadian Players, Canadian cities, 1966
• Sara Tansey, Playboy of the Western World, Canadian Players, Canadian cities, 1966
• Avdotya, The Government Inspector, Stratford Shakespearean Festival Centennial tour, Canadian cities, 1967
• Lady-in-waiting, Twelfth Night, Stratford Shakespearean Festival Centennial tour, Canadian cities, 1967
• Androgyne, Volpone, National Shakespeare Company, U.S. cities, 1967
• Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, National Shakespeare Company, U.S. cities, 1967
• Viola, Twelfth Night, National Shakespeare Company, U.S. cities, 1967
• Miss McCormack and Mimsey, Plaza Suite, U.S. cities, 1969
• The Taming of the Shrew, Canadian schools, 1970
• Television Appearances
• Series
• Dr. Maria Thompson, Search for Tomorrow, CBS, 1977-78
• Eleanor Stander, Easy Street, NBC, 1986-87
• All My Children, ABC, beginning 1989
• Miniseries
• Little Gloria ... Happy at Last, NBC, 1982
• Movies
• Gabrielle Harwood, "Die Laughing," B. L. Stryker, broadcast as part of The ABC Saturday Mystery, ABC, 1989
• Lois Jurgens, A Child Lost Forever (also known as A Child LostForever: The Jerry Sherwood Story), NBC, 1992
• Mrs. Julia Peyton, Class of '61, ABC, 1993
• Anna Guidry, A Lesson before Dying, HBO, 1999
• Beatrice Vernon, Walking across Egypt, Hallmark Channel, 1999
• Specials
• Witch, Macbeth, 1982
• Lady Ariadne Utterword, "Heartbreak House," American Playhouse, PBS and Showtime, 1984
• Naomi Eisen and Yvonne, "Sunday in the Park with George," American Playhouse (musical), PBS and Showtime, 1985
• Newscaster, Steven Wright in "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings"(also known as The Appointments of Dennis Jennings), HBO, 1989
• Gertrude, Hamlet, PBS, 1990
• Awards Presentations
• The 59th Annual Tony Awards, 2005
• Episodic
• Kahlana, "Tribal Law," The Beachcomber, syndicated, c. 1961
• Margie Bolander, "Dead End," Homicide: Life on the Street (also known as Homicide and Homicide: LOTS), NBC, 1995
• Margie Bolander, "End Game," Homicide: Life on the Street (also known as Homicide and Homicide: LOTS), NBC, 1995
• Margie Bolander, "Law and Disorder," Homicide: Life on the Street(also known as Homicide and Homicide: LOTS), NBC, 1995
• Shore, "Girlfriends," Law & Order, NBC, 1996
• Ms. Langer, "Three Days of the Condo," Frasier (also known as Dr. Frasier Crane), NBC, 1997
• Patricia Nathan, "The Bill of Wrongs," Oz, HBO, 2000
• Patricia Nathan, "Obituaries," Oz, HBO, 2000
• Dr. Camille Willoughby, "Bottlecaps," 100 Centre Street, Arts andEntertainment, 2001
• Judge Natalie Brown, "Cause of Action," The Practice, ABC, 2003
• Trudy Stork, "Out of the Frying Pan," Sex and the City, HBO, 2004
• Mrs. Eels, "Mr. Monk and the Other Detective," Monk, USA Network,2005
• Also appeared in Under Fire.
• Film Appearances
• Mrs. Freda Mueller, The Explorers (also known as Explorers), Paramount, 1984
• Miss Millie, The Color Purple, Warner Bros., 1985
• Wedding speaker, Heartburn, Paramount, 1986
• Engagement party guest, Another Woman, Orion, 1988
• Mrs. Reed, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Orion, 1988
• Wardrobe mistress, Postcards from the Edge, Columbia, 1990
• Margaret Alford/Margaret Addams, The Addams Family, Paramount, 1991
• Mrs. Stone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (also known as HomeAlone II), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992
• Claire, Sleepless in Seattle, TriStar, 1993
• Judge Tompkins, Guilty as Sin, Buena Vista, 1993
• Margaret Addams, Addams Family Values, Paramount, 1993
• The widow Douglas, The Adventures of Huck Finn (also known as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Buena Vista, 1993
• Mack, Sabrina, Paramount, 1995
• Meredith Stonehall, The Scarlet Letter, Buena Vista, 1995
• Grandmother Wenteworth, Simon Birch (also known as Angels and Armadillos), Buena Vista, 1998
• Mrs. Essendine, The Imposters, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
• Mrs. Crisp, Mumford, Buena Vista, 1999
• Dr. Suzanne Alexander, The Kid (also known as Disney's "The Kid"), Buena Vista, 2000
• Ruth Kelson, Two Weeks Notice, Warner Bros., 2002
• Vera Gantner, Orange County, Paramount, 2002
• Congressperson Libby Hauser, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (also known as Legally Blonde 2 and Legally Blonde 2: Bigger,Bolder & Blonder), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2003
• RECORDINGS
• Audiobooks
• Larry McMurtry, The Evening Star, Simon & Schuster, 1992
• Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life, Penguin HighBridge, 1992
• Barbara Delinsky, For My Daughters, Harper, 1994
• Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio, 1995
• Belva Plain, Legacy of Silence, Bantam, Doubleday Dell Audio, 1998
• Jan Karon, A Common Life: The Wedding Story, Penguin Audiobooks, 2001

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• American Theatre, April, 1997, pp. 24-29
• Playbill, January 18, 2005