Patti LuPone
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04/20/1949
Northport, NY |
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| Breakout role was her Tony Award-winning performance of Eva Peron in Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit Evita in 1979. |
| Made stage debut tap dancing at the age of four and later performed with her teenage twin brothers as The LuPone Trio. |
| Became the first American actress to win an Olivier Award (she received it for creating the role of Fantine in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Les Miserables). |
| Originated the role of Norma Desmond in the London production of Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard and was under contract to transfer to Broadway; but when the composer plucked Glenn Clos |
| Met husband Matthew while working on the TV movie LBJ: The Early Years in 1986 and married him on the stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center two years later. |
| Named for great-great-aunt and opera soprano Adelina Patti. |
