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T. Scott Cunningham, Seasoned Off Broadway Player, Dies at 47

New York Times - Found Jun. 26, 2009
... the son who comes home to tell his stuffy family that he has AIDS, in Pterodactyls in 1993. Hope Davis, in her first substantial stage role...

Posted on June 26, 2009, 12:01 pm

Theater Listings: June 26 July 2

New York Times - Found Jun. 25, 2009
Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden have the time of their lives tearing up the scenery and one another in...

Posted on June 25, 2009, 12:46 pm

On the Couch with Hope Davis

Daily Beast - Found Jun. 24, 2009
By: Rachel Syme In Treatment's most neurotic patient, Hope Davis, talks to The Daily Beast's Rachel Syme about playing crazy, being a mom, and

Posted on June 24, 2009, 9:55 am

Hope Davis & Alison Pill

Variety - Found Jun. 10, 2009
And yet the storylines of both Alison Pill (April) and Hope Davis (Mia) succeed in what "In Treatment" does brilliantly -- presenting...

Posted on June 10, 2009, 6:20 am

Hope Davis on Vomiting in God of Carnage

New York Magazine - Found Apr. 6, 2009
The newest addition to In Treatment, Hope Davis, has long been a critical favorite for her turns in About Schmidt, American Splendor, and Synecdoche,

Posted on April 6, 2009, 5:07 am

Hope Davis and Marcia Gay Harden thrill onstage in 'Carnage'

Reading Eagle - Found Apr. 21, 2009
NEW YORK - Hope Davis and Marcia Gay Harden would like to make something clear right away: They're not professional rivals in any way.

Posted on April 21, 2009, 12:25 pm

Hope Davis has tummy trouble in 'God of Carnage'

Newsday - Found Apr. 4, 2009
... performance by Hope Davis in the Yasmina Reza comedy 'God of Carnage.' As a stressed-out mom confronted about her teen son's misdeeds, Davis...

Posted on April 4, 2009, 12:32 pm

GANDOLFINI EJECTS THEATRE INTRUDER

PR inside - Found 22 hours ago
Soprano, regained his composure before the curtain came up - as his co-stars Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis looked on stunned.
James Gandolfini throws out intruder during Broadway performance - Los Angeles Times
Gandolfini ejects theatre intruder - Daily Express
James Gandolfini throws out intruder during Broadway performance - Yahoo! India
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Daily Express

Posted on July 3, 2009, 1:05 pm

Proof Can be Found at Sierra Madre Playhouse

The Monrovia Weekly - Found Jul. 1, 2009
The Playhouse doesn?t have Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Hope Davis on stage.

Posted on July 1, 2009, 7:25 am

There arent enough Emmys to pay tribute to the best actors

Providence Journal - Found Jun. 30, 2009
Alison Pill, Hope Davis and, of course, Dianne Wiest (who won supporting actress last year) were all superb on In Treatment;

Posted on June 30, 2009, 1:42 pm

Hope Davis Biography

Hope Davis
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Hope Davis
Born March 23, 1964 (1964-03-23) (age 45)
Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.

Hope Davis (born March 23, 1964) is an American actress. She has starred in more than 20 feature films, including About Schmidt, Flatliners, Mumford, American Splendor, The Lodger (2009) and Next Stop Wonderland

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Biography

Personal life

Davis, second of three children, was born in Englewood, New Jersey, the daughter of Joan, a librarian, and William Davis, an engineer.1 Davis has described her mother as a "great storyteller" who would take Davis and her siblings to museums or to "something cultural" every Sunday after church.23 Davis graduated in 1982 from Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey,4 and was a childhood friend of Mira Sorvino, with whom she wrote and acted in backyard plays.

She is married to actor Jon Patrick Walker. They have two children, Georgia (born August 31, 2002) and Mae (born December 30, 2004).

Career

Film

Davis majored in cognitive science at Vassar College, but then became an actress in independent films such as The Daytrippers (1995) and Next Stop Wonderland (1998). These led her to roles in Hollywood films such as the thriller Arlington Road (1999), and About Schmidt (2002). In 2003, she starred opposite Paul Giamatti in the movie adaptation of the Harvey Pekar comic American Splendor as the comic book version of Pekar's real-life wife, Joyce Brabner. For this role, Davis won the New York Film Critics Circle award and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Stage

She had lead roles in the New York premiere of Rebecca Gilman's Spinning into Butter in 2000, and in the 2005 audio play "Hope Leaves the Theater", written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. This was a segment of the sound-only production Theater of the New Ear, which debuted at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY. The title actually refers to Hope Davis's character "leaving the theater."

She returned to the stage in 2009, appearing in Broadway's God of Carnage with Marcia Gay Harden, James Gandolfini and Jeff Daniels5, a role which gained her a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play

Television

Davis is co-starring as the bitter and self-deprecating "Mia" with Golden Globe winner Gabriel Byrne in the second season (2009) of HBO's In Treatment, a dramatic series that tracks the backstory and progress of five patients during their series of psychological therapeutic sessions. Mia is a successful, unmarried malpractice attorney who returns to therapy with Dr. Paul Weston after a 20-year absence because of a lack of stability in her personal life.

Davis also starred in an NBC short-lived drama series called "Deadline" with actor Oliver Platt in 2001. She played the ex-wife to Platt's character at a newspaper giant.

Filmography

Awards
Preceded by
Diane Lane
for Unfaithful
NYFCC Award for Best Actress
2003
for American Splendor
Succeeded by
Imelda Staunton
for Vera Drake

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