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Patricia Neal (Patsy Louise Neal) was born on 20 January, 1926 in Packard, Kentucky, USA, is an Actress, Soundtrack. Discover Patricia Neal's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of Patricia Neal networth?

Popular As Patsy Louise Neal
Occupation actress,soundtrack
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 20 January, 1926
Birthday 20 January
Birthplace Packard, Kentucky, USA
Date of death 8 August, 2010
Died Place Edgartown, Massachusetts, USA
Nationality United States

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Patricia Neal Height, Weight & Measurements

At 84 years old, Patricia Neal height is 5' 8½" (1.74 m) .

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Height 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
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Who Is Patricia Neal's Husband?

Her husband is Roald Dahl (2 July 1953 - 17 November 1983) ( divorced) ( 5 children)

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Husband Roald Dahl (2 July 1953 - 17 November 1983) ( divorced) ( 5 children)
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Patricia Neal Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Patricia Neal worth at the age of 84 years old? Patricia Neal’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actress. She is from United States. We have estimated Patricia Neal's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

7 Women (1966)$125 .000

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2020

In January 2020, she was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month.

2009

Appeared on WABC-TV Consumer Line in New York City to deal with a botched contracting job in her bathroom. [March 2009]

2008

Neal made an appearance at the 2008 Nashville Film Festival to receive the festival's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.

2007

On March 4, 2007, she received one of the two Lifetime Achievement Awards presented annually by the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University, following a screening of her classic film A Face in the Crowd (1957) (Roy Scheider was the other honoree).

2005

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on May 20, 2005.

1986

Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award (1986).

1981

Neal and Dahl's ordeal and ultimate victory over her illness made for the television movie The Patricia Neal Story (1981), starring Glenda Jackson and Dirk Bogarde.

1977

Consolidated into related trivia entry ("Patricia Neal died of lung cancer in 2010, aged 84, at her home in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. She was interred at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Litchfield County, Connecticut, where she was friends with the Reverend Mother Dolores Hart (who had been an actress before entering religious life under the same name, ( Dolores Hart) and where Neal had spent time before becoming a Catholic late in life. She was survived by her four surviving children and her grandchildren: Sophie Dahl (born September 15, 1977), Clover Martha Patricia Kelly (born September 21, 1984), Luke Kelly (aka "Luke James Roald Kelly"; born July 17, 1986), Ned Dahl Donovan (born January 7, 1994) from daughter Tessa Dahl; Phoebe Patricia Rose Faircloth (born November 4, 1988), Chloe Dahl (aka Chloe Michaela Dahl; born September 12, 1990) from daughter Lucy Dahl; Alexa Isabella Dahl (born June 26, 2005) from son Theo Dahl. She also had a grandchild by her daughter, Ophelia Dahl, and Ophelia's partner, Lisa Frantzis.").

1972

Was supposed to continue playing the female lead role as Olivia Walton in The Waltons (1972) after the pilot episode, but health problems precluded this and the role went to Michael Learned.

1971

She did receive three Emmy nominations, the first for originating the role of "Olivia Walton" in the 1971 TV movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971), that gave birth to the TV show The Waltons (1972).

1968

When she returned to the screen, in 1968 in The Subject Was Roses (1968), she suffered from memory problems. According to her director, Ulu Grosbard, "The memory element was the uncertain one. But when we started to shoot, she hit her top level. She really rises to the challenge. She has great range, even more now than before". She received an Oscar nomination for her work. Subsequently, new acting roles equal to her talent were sparse.

1967

Robinson" in The Graduate (1967)). Neal was pregnant at the time. She underwent a seven-hour operation on her brain and survived, later delivering her fifth child. She underwent rehabilitation supervised by her husband.

She had turned down The Graduate (1967) as she had not recovered fully from her stroke.

1966

She was filming John Ford's film, 7 Women (1966), at the time, and had to be replaced by Anne Bancroft (who would later take a role she turned down, that of "Mrs.

1965

In 1965, she suffered a series of strokes that nearly killed her.

1964

Was in a story segment of The Third Secret (1964) which was removed from the film.

1963

Is one of 6 actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Eva Marie Saint, Meryl Streep, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. Neal is the only to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Neal was 8 months pregnant with her daughter Ophelia Dahl when she won the Best Actress Oscar for Hud (1963).

1961

With her film career stagnating, she returned to Broadway and achieved the success that eluded her in films, appearing in the revival of Hellman's play, The Children's Hour (1961), in 1952.

After appearing in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), she had what was arguably her finest role, as Alma the housekeeper, in Hud (1963) opposite Paul Newman. The film was a hit and Neal won the Best Actress Oscar.

1960

Her 5-month-old baby son Theo Dahl suffered severe neurological damage on December 5, 1960, when his carriage (which was being pushed by a nurse) was accidentally crushed between a taxi and a bus in New York City. He survived following several operations.

1959

Returning to the stage, she appeared in the London production of Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and co-starred with Anne Bancroft in the Broadway production of The Miracle Worker (1962).

1958

Before she had appeared in the movie, Neal had taken over the role of "Maggie" in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), the Broadway smash that had been directed by Kazan.

1957

In 1957, she had one of her finest roles in Elia Kazan's parable about the threat of mass-media demagoguery and home-grown fascism in A Face in the Crowd (1957).

1955

In 1947, Neal won the Tony (Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) Award), Donaldson, Theatre World and New York Dramatic Critics awards for her 1946 Broadway performance as Regina in Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest" (a prequel to "The Little Foxes"), which she essayed at the tender age of 20. The role made Neal a star. One critic called her "a young Tallulah Bankhead". She was visited backstage by Bankhead -- who had played the middle-aged Regina in the original Broadway production of Hellman's "The Little Foxes" -- and told Neal, "Dahling, you were as good as I was - and if I said you were half as good, it would [still] have been a hell of a compliment!" Before rehearsals began for the 1952 Broadway revival of "The Children's Hour" starring Neal and Kim Hunter, playwright Lillian Hellman hosted a formal party, where Neal met Roald Dahl. They were married nine months later and would have five children: Ophelia Dahl, Lucy Dahl, Theo Dahl, Tessa Dahl, and Olivia Twenty Dahl (born April 20, 1955-died November 17, 1962), who died suddenly from complications of measles encephalitis at the age of seven. Neal and Dahl had numerous grandchildren.

1953

She met and married writer, Roald Dahl, in 1953, and they would have five children in 30 years of marriage.

1951

Was just 12 years older than Billy Gray, who played her son in Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951).

1949

In the first part of her film career, her most impressive roles were in The Fountainhead (1949), opposite Gary Cooper, with whom she had three-year-long love affair, and in director Robert Wise's sci-fi classic, Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951), which she made at 20th Century-Fox. Warners hadn't been thrilled with her and let her go before her contract was up, so she signed with Fox.

1948

She won the role of the teenage "Regina" in Lillian Hellman's play, Another Part of the Forest (1948), for which she won a Tony Award in 1947. Subsequently, she signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros.

1947

Patricia Neal, the Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress, was born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky, where her father managed a coal mine and her mother was the daughter of the town doctor. She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she attended high school. She was first bit by the acting bug at the age of 10, after attending an evening of monologues at a Methodist church. She subsequently wrote a letter to Santa Claus, telling him, "What I want for Christmas is to study dramatics". She won the Tennessee State Award for dramatic reading while she was in high school. She apprenticed at the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia, when she was 16-years-old, between her junior and senior years in high school. After studying drama for two years at Northwestern University, she headed to New York City and landed the job as an understudy in The Voice of the Turtle (1947). It was the producer of the play that had her change her name from Patsy Louise to Patricia. After replacing Vivian Vance in the touring company of "Turtle", she won a role in a play that closed in Boston and then appeared in summer stock.

1895

Born to William Burdette Neal (January 29, 1895 - April 16, 1944; born in Virginia) and Eura Mildred (nee Petrey) Neal (September 21, 1899 - February 11, 2003, born in Kentucky), Patsy Louise Neal grew up, with her two siblings, Pete and Margaret Ann, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and graduated from Knoxville High School. The family abounded with nicknames: William Neal was a transportation manager for the Southern Coal and & Coke Co. who acquired his nickname "Coot" because he was "just plain cute" in his earlier years. Eura Mildred Petrey Neal had been named after Eura Hogg, a young woman from a well-known Texan family. Margaret Ann Neal (Patricia Neal's sister) was known as "NiNi Neal".

1865

Maternal granddaughter of Paschal (January 8, 1865-May 12, 1936) and Flora (née Siler) Petrey (January 22, 1871-November 7, 1940). Both were born and raised in the state of Kentucky.

1842

Maternal great granddaughter of Green (1842-1913) and Susan (née Jones) Siler (1845-1913). Both were born and raised in the state of Kentucky.

1822

Maternal great granddaughter of Samuel (1822-1892) and Elizabeth (née Bryant) Petrey (1822-1905). Both were born and raised in the state of Kentucky.