Geraldine Page

**Geraldine Sue Page** (22 ga Nuwamba, 1924 - 13 ga Yuni, 1987) 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ce ta Amurka. Tare da aikin da ya kai shekaru arba'in a fadin fim, mataki, da talabijin, Page ya sami lambar yabo da yawa, gami da lambar yabo ta Kwalejin, lambar yabo ta British Academy Film, lambar yabo biyu ta Primetime Emmy, da lambar yabo ce ta Golden Globe, da kuma gabatarwa ga Tony Awards hudu.

Dan asalin Kirksville, Missouri, Page ya yi karatu a Makarantar wasan kwaikwayo ta Goodman a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Chicago *Ruwa* tare da Uta Hagen da Lee Strasberg a Birnin New York. A lokacin McCarthyism, an sanya ta a cikin baƙar fata a Hollywood saboda dangantakarta da Hagen kuma ba ta yi aiki a fim ba har tsawon shekaru takwas. Page ta lashe lambar yabo ta Kwalejin don 'yar wasan kwaikwayo mafi kyau saboda rawar da ta taka a cikin The Trip to Bountiful (1985). An zabi ta Oscar saboda aikinta a cikin Hondo (1953), Summer and Smoke (1961), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), You're a Big Boy Now (1966), *Pete 'n' Tillie* (1972), Interiors (1978), da kuma Paparoma na Greenwich Village (1984). An kuma san ta da rawar da ta taka a cikin What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?  (1969), The Beguiled (1971) da The Rescuers (1977). 

A kan mataki, ta fara bugawa Broadway a wasan kwaikwayo na 1953 Mid-summer . Ta ci gaba da karɓar gabatarwa ta Tony Award don wasan kwaikwayon da ta yi a matsayin Princess Kosmonopolis a cikin Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Marion a cikin Absurd Person Singular (1974), Mother Miriam Ruth a cikin Agnes of God (1982), da kuma Madame Arcati a cikin Blithe Spirit (1987). Don aikinta mai yawa a kan mataki an shigar da ita cikin Hall of Fame na Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Amurka a shekarar 1979. Don rawar da ta taka a talabijin ta sami lambar yabo ta Primetime Emmy Awards guda biyu don Kyakkyawan Ayyuka ta Actress a cikin Babban Matsayi a cikin Wasan kwaikwayo don yin wasan kwaikwayo a cikin sauye-sauyen Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory (1967) da The Thanksgiving Visitor (1969).

An haifi Page a ranar 22 ga Nuwamba, 1924, a Kirksville, Missouri, ɗan farko na Edna Pearl (née Maize) da Leon Elwin Page  wanda ya yi aiki a Kwalejin Andrew Taylor Still na Osteopathy da Surgery (haɗe da Makarantar Amurka ta Osteopath, daga ƙarshe don samar da Jami'ar AT Still). Ya kasance marubuci wanda ayyukansa sun hada da Practical Anatomy (1925), Osteopathic Fundamentals (1926), da The Old Doctor (1932).  Tana da ƙaramin ɗan'uwa ɗaya, Donald . 

A lokacin da take da shekaru biyar, Page ta koma tare da iyalinta zuwa Chicago.[1] Mahaifiyarta ce ta haife ta a matsayin Methodist, Page ta kasance mai aiki a Ikilisiyar Englewood Methodist a Birnin Chicago, inda ta fara yin wasan kwaikwayo a cikin ƙungiyar wasan kwaikwayo ta coci, ta bayyana a cikin wasan da ake kira Excuse My Dust, sannan ta yi wasa da Jo Maris a cikin samar da Louisa May Alcott's Little Women na 1941.[1] Bayan kammala karatunta daga Kwalejin Fasaha ta Englewood ta Chicago, ta halarci Makarantar Fasaha ta Goodman a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Chicago (wanda ya koma Jami'ar DePaul a 1978), tare da niyyar zama 'yar wasan kwaikwayo. Page tana da burin zama pianist ko mai zane-zane, amma a shekara 17 ta bayyana a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na farko, kuma daga wannan lokacin, ba ta taɓa yin watsi da sha'awarta ta zama 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ba.[1]

Bayan kammala karatunsa daga Cibiyar Fasaha ta Chicago a 1945,  Page ya yi karatun wasan kwaikwayo a Makarantar Herbert Berghof da American Theatre Wing a Birnin New York,  yana karatu tare da Uta Hagen na tsawon shekaru bakwai,  sannan kuma a cikin Actors Studio tare da Lee Strasberg. A wannan lokacin, Page za ta koma Chicago a lokacin rani don yin wasan kwaikwayo a Lake Zurich, Illinois, inda ita da 'Yan wasan kwaikwayo da yawa suka kafa kamfaninsu na wasan kwaikwayo mai zaman kansu. Ta kuma shafe shekaru biyu masu nasara tare da kamfanin hunturu da ake kira Woodstock Players, wani rukuni daga Goodman, wanda ya yi mafi yawa a Woodstock Opera House inda mai sukar Claudia Cassidy na The Chicago Tribune ya ware ta zama tauraron da za ta iya kallo. A wannan lokacin an kira ta "mace mai fuskoki dubu" saboda ikonta na canza kamanninta da ayyukanta har zuwa inda magoya bayanta masu kwazo suka kasa gane ta. Yayinda take ƙoƙarin kafa aikinta, ta yi aiki daban-daban, ciki har da yarinya mai yin hat, mai gabatar da gidan wasan kwaikwayo, samfurin tufafi, da kuma ma'aikacin masana'antu.

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