| Nelligan's performances in film and on stage have earned her plaudits, critical acclaim and awards on both sides of the Atlantic. In film, she won British Academy and National Board of Review Awards for her role in Garry Marshall's Frankie and Johnny, opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino. Her riveting portrayal of Nick Nolte's southern mother in Barbra Streisand's The Prince of Tides, earned her an Academy Award nomination and she won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress opposite Helena Bonham Carter in Mort Ransen's Margaret's Museum. More recently Nelligan teamed up with Robert Redford and, for a third time, Michelle Pfeiffer in Jon Avnet's Up Close and Personal and co-starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones in Warner Bros.' U.S. Marshalls. Other movie credits include Mike Nichol's Wolf, opposite Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer, Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog, Carl Reiner's Fatal Instinct with Armand Assante, Jocelyn Moorehouse's How to Make an American Quilt, Dracula, Eye of the Needle, Without a Trace and Eleni.
On television, Nelligan earned an Emmy nomination and Gemini Award for her guest appearance on CBC/Disney's Road to Avonlea and, the same year, a second Gemini for the USA movie, Diamond Fleece. Most recently she completed Dan Petrie Sr.'s Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn and Hallmark's Captive Heart: the James Mink Story, opposite Louis Gosset Jr. Some of her other television credits include BBC's Old Times, opposite John Malkovich; Zola's Therese Raquin for BBC; Michael Weller's Spoils of War for Hallmark and Million Dollar Babies, opposite Beau Bridges, for CBS/CBC.
Nelligan has distinguished herself as a leading stage actress in both New York and London. Born in Canada, she studied at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. After her professional debut in 1973, she won national recognition the next year in the West End production of Knuckle. She has starred in many Royal National Theatre productions including Heartbreak House, Tales of the Vienna Woods and created the leading role in David Hare's Plenty, for which she won the UK's Evening Standard Award as Best Actress. She played Rosalind in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It. She moved to the U.S. in 1982 and garnered the first of four Tony nominations for the Broadway production of Plenty. Other nominations came for A Moon for the Misbegotten, Caryl Churchill's Serious Money, Spoils of War and most recently, she returned to Broadway to star in Wendy Wasserstein's new play, An American Daughter.
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