| Elizabeth Franz | |
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| Born | June 18, 1941 Akron, Ohio |
Elizabeth Franz (born June 18, 1941) is an American actress of stage and television. Franz was born Betty Jean Frankovich[1] in Akron, Ohio to a factory worker father.[2] On the stage, Franz has won a Tony Award, for her role as Linda Loman in the 1999 production of Death of a Salesman, as well as an Obie Award, for her role in the 1980 off-Broadway production Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You. Franz has also been nominated two other times for a Tony Award (for 1983's Brighton Beach Memoirs and 2002's Morning's at Seven). In 2004 and 2005, Franz appeared at the Royal National Theatre in London, in the Sam Shepard play Buried Child. In 2007, she appeared to critical acclaim in Julia Cho's drama The Piano Teacher at the Vineyard Theatre in New York. [3]
