Elizabeth Franz
| Elizabeth Franz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Betty Jean Frankovich June 18, 1941 Akron, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Spouse(s) | Edward Binns (1984–1990; his death) |
Elizabeth Franz (born June 18, 1941) is an American stage and television actress.
Franz was born Betty Jean Frankovich in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of a factory worker.
On the stage, she won a Tony Award for her role as Linda Loman in the 1999 production of Death of a Salesman, which also earned her nominations for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards, and she won Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award, Boston's Elliot Norton Award, and Los Angeles' Ovation Award for a tour of the same production.
She won an Obie Award and a Drama Desk nomination for her role in the 1980 Off-Broadway production Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, and the Lucille Lortel Award for the 2007 production of Julia Cho's The Piano Teacher at the Vineyard Theatre in New York. She was nominated two other times for a Tony Award, for 1983's Brighton Beach Memoirs and 2002's Morning's at Seven, for which she also received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations.
In 2004–05, she appeared at the Royal National Theatre in London, in the Sam Shepard play Buried Child. She has starred in numerous Off-Broadway and regional theater productions, including the world premiere of Kelly Masterson's Against the Rising Sea, Frank McGuinness's Bird Sanctuary (American premiere), Long Day's Journey into Night with Sam Waterston, Autumn Garden, The Glass Menagerie, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Comedy of Errors, Minutes from the Blue Route, Madwoman of Chaillot, The Lion in Winter, A View from the Bridge, The Matchmaker, The Wizard of Oz, Great Expectations, The Model Apartment, and Woman in Mind. In 2003 she received the Dramatist Guild Fund's Lifetime Achievement in the Theater Award.
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