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Venable" in "Suddenly, Last Summer" 1995 , "Alexandra Del Lago" in "Sweet Bird of Youth 1998 and "Amanda Wingfield" in "The Glass Menagerie 2001.

Grand in style, exotic in looks, divinely outgoing in personality and an engaging interpreter of ' florid Southern-belles on stage, she was born Elizabeth Ann Cole on August 30, 1939, in Ocala, Florida.

Briefly using her real name, her big, breakthrough year occurred in 1959 when she made her off-Broadway debut with "Dirty Hands", played "Esmeralda" in the Neighborhood Playhouse production of "Camino Real" and took on Broadway with 's "The Highest Tree".

Abandoning a film career that had just gotten out of the starting gate proved detrimental and she never did recapture the momentum she once had.

The dusky-toned actress pulled out all the stops as "Maggie the Cat" in s "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" 1974 co-starring and as "Sabina" in 's "The Skin of Our Teeth" the following year, and she was back on top.

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It was mostly accidental as to how I got into this business.

was quite taken by the new star and created especially for her the role of "Corie Bratter" in 1963's "Barefoot in the Park" opposite 'Robert Redford'.

As cliche as the phrase is "Everyone has to start somewhere.

I have accrued many tear sheets and publications such as Playboy and Wired Magazine and many more.