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Angelica Page (née Angelica Sue Torn; February 17, 1964) is an American actress, director, producer and screenwriter. She is the only daughter of actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. Credited as Angelica Torn in her early career, she legally and professionally changed her name to Angelica Page in September 2011.
Page began her career in the 1993 Broadway theatre revival of Anna Christie, and made her feature film debut in Nobody's Fool (1994). In 1998, she starred in a Broadway production of Side Man, which earned her a Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress. She subsequently appeared in the films The Sixth Sense (1999), and the political drama The Contender (2000).
She continued to appear Off-Broadway throughout the 2000s, returning to Broadway with a supporting part in a 2012 revival of The Best Man. In 2015, she starred as her mother, Geraldine Page, in the touring stage production Turning Page, a biographical play which she also wrote. Additional film credits include Michael Imperioli's The Hungry Ghosts (2009), and the thriller Never Here (2017).
After her mother's death in 1987, Page began exploring acting as a career option, as it had been her mother's "dying wish". She commented: "My mother died before she ever had a chance to see me realize this dream that she apparently had for me, but never spoke of. She wanted me to make my own decisions, but then at the end when she realized she didn't have any time left, she made me promise." Page studied acting at the William Esper Studio and HB Studio.
On stage, Page received the Helen Hayes Award (Best Actress 2000) for her work in the Tony Award-winning Side Man at the Kennedy Center. This followed closely after being honored with the New York People's Choice Award in the Best Supporting Actress category (1999) for her portrayal of Patsy, a role she originated for the same production.
Nominated for her second Helen Hayes Award (Best Actress 2010) for her portrayal of Ivy Weston in the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning (Broadway and National Tour), her performance was heralded as "revelatory" by the Chicago Tribune. On television, she appeared as Julia Brinn in (2005); other television credits include , The Sopranos, 100 Centre Street, and As the World Turns. In 2009, she had a supporting role in the Michael Imperioli-directed drama The Hungry Ghosts.
In 2015, Page developed the one-woman show Turning Page, a biographical play in which she portrayed her mother. The production opened in Los Angeles before touring nationally, and Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times praised it, writing: "For those who have been touched by Page's sorcery—and I personally don't know any great actor who hasn't been—Angelica's virtuosic conjuring of her mother's spirit is something to behold." The production continued to tour into 2017.
She subsequently married actor Tim Williams in 1998 after the two had met while performing in a 1996 stage production titled Strangers in the Land of Canaan, directed by her father. The marriage ended in divorce in 2001.
She married television creator Dmitry Lipkin (FX, HBO) in 2017
in a private ceremony at Soniat House in New Orleans.
She has commented that she had a loving yet combative relationship with her father, stating: "He's a worthy adversary. He's a very strong personality. He's an amazing person, an amazing father, but sometimes there are certain things we don't see eye to eye on. I call him on it and we fight, just like anybody else."
Career
Page's first professional role was on Broadway theatre as an understudy in the 1993 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie. She subsequently made her feature film debut in Nobody's Fool (1994), and appeared in several independent films before having a supporting role in M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense (1999). Also in 2000, she had a supporting role in Amos Kollek's Fast Food Fast Women (2000), and in the Academy Awards-nominated political drama The Contender (2000). The following year, she had a supporting role as Patty opposite John Travolta in the thriller Domestic Disturbance (2001).
Other ventures
Page is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio who actively supports charities and is considered acting royalty.
Personal life
Page married Keith William Burkhardt in 1984, and with him gave birth to a son, Elijah, and a daughter named Tana. The couple divorced in 1992.
Filmography
Film
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Television
Episode: "Savages"
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Credited as Angelica TornEpisode: "Denial, Anger, Acceptance"
Credited as Angelica TornEpisode: "Shock"
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Credited as Angelica TornEpisode: "Equal Rights"
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Credited as Angelica TornEpisode: "Eminence Front: Part 2"
Credited as Angelica TornEpisode: "Quarry"
Credited as Angelica TornEpisode: "Melancholy Pursuit"
Stage credits
External links
Categories: 1964 Births, Living People, 20th-century American Actresses, 21st-century American Actresses, Actresses From Manhattan, American Film Actresses, American Stage Actresses, American Television Actresses, American People Of Austrian Descent, American People Of Czech Descent, American People Of German Descent, American People Of Moravian-german Descent, Bank Street College Of Education Alumni
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