Patricia Conolly

Patricia Conolly (born 29 August 1933) is an Australian stage actress.

Biography Conolly began her stage career in Australia where she grew up, and has performed in England in the West End, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Chichester Festival Theatre (Laurence Olivier's company); in Canada for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival; and on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in US regional theaters, including Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Old Globe Theatre, Arena Stage, and Seattle Repertory Theatre.

On Broadway her credits include To Kill A Mockingbird, The Front Page, Is He Dead?, Enchanted April, Judgment at Nuremberg, Waiting in the Wings, Hedda Gabler (Roundabout Theatre Company) The Sound of Music, The Heiress, A Small Family Business, The Circle, Blithe Spirit, and roles at the Lyceum with the APA/Repertory Company, under the direction of Ellis Rabb. At Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts she has appeared in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia directed by Jack O'Brien, and earlier in A Streetcar Named Desire with Rosemary Harris, (director Ellis Rabb). Off Broadway her credits include House and Garden, Woman in Mind (Manhattan Theatre Club), Tartuffe, Born Again, The Importance of Being Earnest (Circle in the Square Theatre), The Real Inspector Hound, Gabriel at the Atlantic Theater Company, Beyond the Horizon at the Irish Repertory Theatre, Rasheeda Speaking at the New Group, and most recently, The Belle of Belfast at the Irish Repertory Theatre.

She has performed in major classical roles, (they include Viola, Isabella, Rosalind, Regan, Phaedra, Jocasta, Mrs.Alving, Nora, Blanche Dubois, Amanda Wingfield and others), and has directed and taughLat at several theater training programs, including the Old Globe Theatre/University of San Diego MFA program, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Juilliard School, Florida Atlantic University, University of Southern California, and Boston University. Patricia Conolly is the widow of actor, Dan Bly (d. 1973), the mother of Emily Bly, and is married to actor, Colin McPhillamy.

Filmography Film + Year Title Role Notes 1961 Hedda Gabler Performer Television Film 1961 The First Joanna The First Joanna Television Film 1962 Reunion Day Val Television Film 1965 Moby Dick Rehearsed Pip Television Film 1969 Color Me Dead Maria Rukubian 2008 Protect You + Me Mother Short Film 2013 Young(ish) Old Woman Short Film 2026 Disclosure Day Ruth Uncredited

Television + Year Title Role Notes 1965-1966 Never Too Young Barbara 17 Episodes 1967 Occasional Wife Andrea Episode: "Oil, I'll Be Seeing You" 1975 Great Performances Lady Sneerwell Episode: "The School for Scandal" 2013 Elementary Greta Dunwoody Episode: "Possibility Two"

Stage + Year Title Role Notes 1965 You Can't Take It With You Gay Wellington Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1966 The School for Scandal Lady Teazle (Alternate) Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1966 Right You Are If You Think You Are Signora Sirelli Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1966 We, Comrades Three Young Woman Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1967 The Wild Duck Hedvig (Alternate) Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1967 You Can't Take It With You Alice Sycamore (Alternate) Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1967 Pantagleize Rachel Silbershatz Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1968 Exit the King Queen Marie Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1968 The Cherry Orchard Dunyasha Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1968 The Cocktail Party Celia Coplestone Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1968 The Misanthrope Eliante Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1969 Cock-A-Doodle-Dandy Marion Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 1973 A Streetcar Named Desire Stella Kowalski Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway 1977 The Importance of Being Earnest Honorable Gwendolyn Fairfax Circle in the Square Theatre, Broadway 1987 Blithe Spirit Mrs. Bradman Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway 1988 Woman in Mind Muriel Manhattan Theatre Club, Off-Broadway 1989 The Circle Mrs. Shenstone Ambassador Theatre, Broadway 1992 A Small Family Business Harriet Music Box Theatre, Broadway 1992 The Fifteen Minute Hamlet Gertrude Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway 1992 The Real Inspector Hound Mrs. Drudge Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway 1994 Hedda Gabler Miss Julia Tesman Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway 1995 The Heiress Elizabeth Almond Cort Theatre, Broadway 1996 Tartuffe Mme. Pernelle Circle in the Square Theatre, Broadway 1998 The Sound of Music Frau Schmidt Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway 1999 Waiting in the Wings Maudie Melrose Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway 2002 House and Garden Izzie Truce Manhattan Theatre Club, Off-Broadway 2007 Is He Dead? Madame Bathilde Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 2010 Gabriel Margaret Lake Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway 2012 Beyond the Horizon Mrs. Atkins Irish Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway 2015 Rasheeda Speaking Rose The New Group, Off-Broadway 2015 The Belle of Belfast Emma Irish Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway 2016 The Front Page Jennie Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway 2019 To Kill A Mockingbird Mrs. Henry DuBose (Replacement) Shubert Theatre, Broadway