Annalee Jefferies

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

Annalee Jefferies
Born (1954-05-14) May 14, 1954
Houston, Texas
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art

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 lives on a farm in Brenham, Texas.

Film and television

New York stage

Playwrights Horizons

Regional stage

Royal Shakespeare Company, Denver Performing Arts Complex

Hartford Stage Company

Hartford Theatreworks

Williamstown Theatre

Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas

Dir: Gregory Boyd

Dir: Michael Wilson

Dir: Misc

Great Lakes Theatre Festival

Long Wharf Theatre

Arena Stage, Washington D.C.

Public theatre

See also

References
  1. "CAL". Hartford Courant. Connecticut, Hartford. April 16, 2009. p. CAL 15. Retrieved 25 July 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. The New York Times Theatre Reviews, 1999-2000. Taylor & Francis. 2001. pp. 400–401. ISBN 9780415936972. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
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