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American actress
Sonya Wilde
Born (1937-11-02) November 2, 1937 (age 87)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationFormer actress
Years active1960-1962
Spouse Jake Butcher ​(m. 1962)​
Children4

Sonya Wilde (born November 2, 1937) is an American former actress, best known for her starring role in the 1960 film I Passed for White. She started her career as Maria on Broadway with the original cast of West Side Story.

Career

On Broadway, Wilde was an understudy and replacement in the role of Maria in West Side Story (1957).

Selected filmography

Selected television

Private life

In 1962, Wilde married the banker Jake Butcher, having met him on New Year's Eve 1961 on a blind date. He later became a politician, before spending seven years in prison for fraud. They had four children.

Following her husband's 1985 20-year jail term for bank fraud (he served seven years), Wilde went to court in 1986 to try to keep the family's $675,000 home in the exclusive Sweetwater Club subdivision just outside Orlando.

References

  1. Donald Bogle (24 October 2001). Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Fourth Edition. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-8264-1267-6. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  2. Sam Riley (2010). Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-313-35813-5. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  3. "Sonya Wilde". Playbill. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  4. W Bruce Wheeler, University of Tennessee. "Jacob F. Butcher | Entries". Tennessee Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  5. W Bruce Wheeler, University of Tennessee. "Jacob F. Butcher &#1detail as24; Entries". Tennessee Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  6. ^ United Press International (1986-02-22). "Jake Butcher's Wife Fights To Keep Florida Home". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2020-06-17.

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