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Linda Emond
Linda Emond (2007)
Born	Linda Marie Emond (1959-05-22) May 22, 1959 (age 65) New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Education	California State University, Fullerton (BA) University of Washington, Seattle (MFA)
Occupation	Actress
Website	lindaemond.com

Linda Marie Emond (born May 22, 1959) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She has received three Tony Award nominations for her performances in Life (x) 3 (2003), Death of a Salesman (2012), and Cabaret (2014).

Early life and education

Emond was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She was raised in Orange County, California, and attended Loara Elementary School, Ball Junior High, and Loara High School (where she was homecoming queen). She graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts from California State University, Fullerton in 1982. She earned an MFA from the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Her first performance on stage was in high school as Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Career

Her first professional stage performance, for which she earned her Equity card, was in On the Verge at The Empty Space Theatre in Seattle during her last semester of graduate school.

She worked extensively in Chicago where she went on to be nominated for five Joseph Jefferson Awards, winning it twice for her performances as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and Paulina in The Winter's Tale.

She debuted on the New York stage in the Off-Broadway play Nine Armenians in 1996 at the Manhattan Theatre Club for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.

She has performed in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul in three separate productions, the first at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2001, receiving a nomination for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Featured Actress, and winning both the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Actress and the 2002 Obie Award for Performance. She appeared in the same play at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2004.

In 2011, she appeared off-Broadway in Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures as "Empty", a part that was written for her.

She was cast as "Elaine" in Craig Lucas's The Dying Gaul at the Vineyard Theater in 1998. She played the role of Queen Hermione in The Winter's Tale at the Public Theater production of Shakespeare in the Park in July 2010. In regional theatre, Emond has performed at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in David Hare's The Secret Rapture in 1990 and at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in The Cherry Orchard (2004) and A.R. Gurney's Far East (1998).

On Broadway, Emond appeared in productions of the musical 1776 (1997) as Abigail Adams, and in Yasmina Reza's play Life x 3 (2003), for which she was nominated for the 2003 Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Play and for which she won the Outer Critics Circle Award. She starred as Linda Loman in the 2012 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman and as Fraulein Schneider in the 2014 revival of Cabaret and received Tony nominations for both performances.

Emond's film and television roles include Simone Beck in Julie & Julia (2009), Georgia O'Keeffe (2009) a made-for-television Lifetime film, and as Abigail Adams in American Experience: John and Abigail Adams for PBS. In 2009, she played Mary Ann McCray in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television presentation of A Dog Named Christmas. She has had recurring roles in such New York-based television series as The Good Wife, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Gossip Girl, Wonderland, Elementary, and The Knick.

She is also a voiceover actor, having narrated over 50 episodes of the Lifetime series Intimate Portrait. As an audiobook reader, Emond is the recipient of four Audiofile Earphones Awards and was named one of their Best Voices of the Year.

Emond co-starred in Indignation (2016), an adaptation of Philip Roth's 2008 novel of the same name, playing Esther Messner, the mother of Logan Lerman's lead character.

She was a cast-member of the AMC comedy-drama Lodge 49, playing Connie Clark.

In 2022, Emond guest starred as Clara Barton on HBO's The Gilded Age.

Filmography

Films

Television

Awards and nominations

References

1. The Best Plays. Applause Theatre Book Publishers. July 29, 1988. ISBN 9780396090779 – via Google Books.
2. ^ "Linda Emond". Internet Broadway Database (The Broadway League). Retrieved June 2, 2014.
3. Broeske, Pat H. (November 28, 2014). "Growing Up in O.C.: Actress Linda Emond Was Queen for a Day". Orange Coast. Orange County, California. p. 95.
4. University of Washington Alumni, washington.edu; accessed April 17, 2014.
5. ^ Levin, Hannah. "Linda Emond Has Mastered Broadway" Master Chat, February 18, 2013
6. "Jeff Awards". Archived from the original on January 2, 2018. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
7. Brantley, Ben."Review: 'Nine Armenians'" The New York Times, November 13, 1996
8. ^ "Awards – Drama Desk".
9. Franklin, Nancy."Review:Afghan Tales" The New Yorker, January 28, 2002
10. Listing for Homebody/Kabul Archived October 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, lortel.org (Internet off-Broadway database), accessed March 24, 2011
11. "Obie Award, 2002" villagevoice.com, accessed March 25, 2011
12. Lipton, Brian Scott. "Linda Emond remains a Homebody", theatermania.com, May 6, 2004
13. Hetrick, Adam. "Public Theater Takes a Page From Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide Beginning March 23" Archived March 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, playbill.com, March 23, 2011
14. Royce, Graydon. "Can Tony Kushner make magic again with his sprawling brand-new play?", popmatters.com, May 21, 2009
15. Marks, Peter. "Dangerous Liaisons, On Line or Otherwise" The New York Times, June 2, 1998
16. Hetrick, Adam."The Winter's Tale, With Linda Emond and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Opens in Central Park July 1" Archived August 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, playbill.com, July 1, 2010
17. The Secret Rapture (1990) Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, steppenwolf.org, accessed March 24, 2011
18. Simonson, Robert. "Linda Emond and Michelle Williams Wander The Cherry Orchard at Williamstown, Aug. 11-22" Archived April 18, 2014, at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, August 11, 2004
19. Sommer, Elyse. "CurtainUp Review", July 18, 1998
20. Brantley, Ben. "Theater Review; A Dinner Becomes A Disaster, In Triplicate (Life x 3)", The New York Times, April 1, 2003
21. 'Life x 3' Listing, IBDb, accessed March 24, 2011
22. "AWARDS FOR 2002-2003". outercritics.org. Archived from the original on April 26, 2014.
23. McKinley Jr., James C. Death of a Salesman production, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com, August 12, 2011
24. "Life Is a Cabaret for Tony Nominee Linda Emond — and She Even Gets to Sing | TheaterMania". www.theatermania.com.
25. Turan, Kenneth.Review Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2009
26. "Georgia O'Keeffe (Lifetime)". Lifetime Television. Archived from the original on August 30, 2009.
27. pbs.org, accessed March 24, 2011
28. Press Release for A Dog Named Christmas, thefutoncritic.com, October 13, 2009
29. "AudioFile, Discover the World of Audiobooks". AudioFile Magazine.
30. White, Peter (February 5, 2021). "'The Gilded Age': HBO Adds Four To Julian Fellowes' Period Drama". Deadline. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
31. Voyles, Blake (September 20, 2023). "83rd Peabody Award Nominees". Retrieved September 20, 2023.

External links

• Linda Emond at IMDb
• Internet Off-Broadway Database Listing

• 1959 births
• American film actresses
• American stage actresses
• American musical theatre actresses
• American television actresses
• Living people
• Actresses from New Jersey
• Actors from New Brunswick, New Jersey
• University of Washington School of Drama alumni
• 21st-century American women