Anne Bancroft
Anna Maria Italiano was born in the Bronx, New York. She was the second of three daughters born to Michael Italiano (1906-2001) and Mildred DiNapoli (1908-2010).
She took on the stage name Anne Bancroft at the beginning of her acting career and made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952). In the fifties she made a lot of movies as a supporting actress until she became a star with The Miracle Worker (1962), directed by Arthur Penn, for which she won an Oscar. From then on she continued to give outstanding performances as a lead actress in such films as The Pumpkin Eater (1964), Young Winston (1972), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), The Turning Point (1977), To Be or Not to Be (1983), Agnes of God(1985), and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987). However, the most famous role of her five-decade career was as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate(1967), and although her status as the "older woman" who seduces a character half her age in the film is iconic, Bancroft in reality was only five years older than co-star Dustin Hoffman.
By the nineties, her transition back to supporting actress in feature films was complete. She had character roles in high-profile movies like Point of No Return (1993) and Great Expectations (1998), but television offered Bancroft meatier roles. She starred in seven made-for-TV films during her later years, all of which earned her major award nominations.
On June 6, 2005, Anne Bancroft died at age 73 just months after being diagnosed with uterine cancer. Among her survivors was her mother Mildred, her husband of forty years (Mel Brooks), and her only child (Max Brooks) who was born in 1972. Her final film, the animated feature Delgo (2008), was released posthumously and dedicated to her memory.
She took on the stage name Anne Bancroft at the beginning of her acting career and made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952). In the fifties she made a lot of movies as a supporting actress until she became a star with The Miracle Worker (1962), directed by Arthur Penn, for which she won an Oscar. From then on she continued to give outstanding performances as a lead actress in such films as The Pumpkin Eater (1964), Young Winston (1972), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), The Turning Point (1977), To Be or Not to Be (1983), Agnes of God(1985), and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987). However, the most famous role of her five-decade career was as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate(1967), and although her status as the "older woman" who seduces a character half her age in the film is iconic, Bancroft in reality was only five years older than co-star Dustin Hoffman.
By the nineties, her transition back to supporting actress in feature films was complete. She had character roles in high-profile movies like Point of No Return (1993) and Great Expectations (1998), but television offered Bancroft meatier roles. She starred in seven made-for-TV films during her later years, all of which earned her major award nominations.
On June 6, 2005, Anne Bancroft died at age 73 just months after being diagnosed with uterine cancer. Among her survivors was her mother Mildred, her husband of forty years (Mel Brooks), and her only child (Max Brooks) who was born in 1972. Her final film, the animated feature Delgo (2008), was released posthumously and dedicated to her memory.
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