Maryann Plunkett Biography
Maryann Plunkett is an American actress. Plunkett has performed on the stage both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. She is an alumnus of the University of New Hampshire. She was a founding member of the Portland Stage repertory company in Maine. In 1985 she played on Broadway as Bernadette Peters’s replacement in the role of “Dot” on Sunday in the Park. She won the Tony Award in 1987 for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance as “Sally Smith” in Me and My Girl.
Maryann Plunkett Age
Maryann Plunkett was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.A in 1953. She is 65 to 66 years as of 2019.
Maryann Plunkett Actor
Maryann Plunkett appeared in the 1991 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, in which she played Elizabeth Proctor opposite Martin Sheen as John Proctor, in an all-star cast including Michael York and Fritz Weaver. In 1993 she was part of the Tony Randall National Actors Theatre company and performed in their production of Saint Joan by Shaw.
In 1992 Maryann Plunkett performed alongside Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallières in the National Actors Theatre productions of A Little Hotel. She appeared in the television movies The Littlest Victims and Breaking the Silence. She guest-starred on episodes of Matlock, L.A. Law, Murder She and her husband appeared together in the Richard Nelson play Sorry in 2012 at the Off-Broadway Public Theatre.
In 2013, Maryann Plunkett was nominated for the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her role as “Barbara Apple”. Plunkett and Sanders appeared in Sweet and Sad in September 2011 at the Public Theatre. The film Sweet and Sad won the 2012 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble Performance, and the 2012 Obie Award, Ensemble Performance. She and her husband appear in all three of Nelson’s new play cycle, with the overall title of The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family.
The first play, Hungry, premiered in March 2016 at the Public Theatre while the second play, What Did You Expect? ran at the Public Theatre from September 10, 2016, to October 9. The third and final play, Women of a Certain Age, opened on election night, November 8, 2016, and ran to December 4, at the Public Theatre.
Maryann Plunkett Net Worth
Maryann Plunkett has made quite a fortune from her talent. However, her net worth is currently under review. Her husband has an approximated net worth of $4 million though.
Maryann Plunkett Height
Maryann Plunkett is pretty tall. However, her real height is not known.
Maryann Plunkett Family
For the long-time Maryann Plunkett has been in the acting business, she has managed to keep her family life a secret. There is no information about her parents or her siblings.
Maryann Plunkett Husband
Maryann Plunkett got married to her loving husband, Jay Olcutt Sanders, on 1st October 1991. The two got married after dating for a year. For the 28 years, the two have been married, they have lived happily. The couple has a son called Jamie Sanders.
Maryann Plunkett Richard Nelson
Richard Nelson “Apple Family Plays”
She and her husband Jay O. Sanders appeared together in the Richard Nelson play Sorry in 2012 at the Off-Broadway Public Theatre.
She was nominated for the 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her role as “Barbara Apple”. Plunkett played the role of “Barbara Apple” in the other Nelson “Apple Family” plays as well. They appeared together in the Off-Broadway production of That Hopey Changey Thing in October 2010 at the Public Theatre.
Plunkett and Sanders appeared in Sweet and Sad in September 2011 at the Public Theatre. Sweet and Sad won the 2012 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble Performance, and the 2012 Obie Award, Ensemble Performance. She appeared in The Apple Family Plays in repertory at the Public Theatre, from October 22, 2013, to December 15.
Richard Nelson election trilogy
Plunkett and Sanders appear in all three of Nelson’s new play cycle, with the overall title of The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family. The first play, Hungry, premiered in March 2016 at the Public Theatre. The second play, What Did You Expect? ran at the Public Theatre from September 10, 2016, to October 9. The third and final play, Women of a Certain Age, opened on election night, November 8, 2016, and runs to December 4, at the Public Theatre.
Maryann Plunkett Movies
- 1989- The Littlest Victims (TV Movie)
- 1991- Deceptions: A Mother’s Secret
- 1992- Breaking the Silence (TV Movie)
- 1998- Claire Dolan
- 2005- The Squid and the Whale
- 2010- The Company Men
- 2010- Blue Valentine
- 2015- True Story
- 2015- The Family Fang
- 2019- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
- 2019- Manifest as Priscilla Landon
Maryann Plunkett Stage Productions
- 1982- Agnes of God
- 1985- Sunday in the Park with George
- 1986- Me and My Girl
- 1991- The Crucible
- 1992- A Little Hotel on the Side
- 1992- The Master Builder
- 1993- Saint Joan
- 2008- A Man for All Seasons
- 2013- The Apple Family Plays
- 2016- The Gabriels (trilogy)
Maryann Plunkett The New Yorker
Plunkett Is a Radiant Everywoman
Plunkett, who played Barbara Apple in Richard Nelson’s quartet “The Apple Family Plays,” at the Public Theatre, and is now appearing as Mary Gabriel in “The Gabriels,” also at the Public, first heard about Nelson’s idea for a play that centers on national events when she was acting in a revival of Lillian Hellman’s “The Autumn Garden,” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, in the summer of 2007. Nelson’s friend, the late David Jones, was directing the play, and Nelson had come to see it.
“I was going up the staircase, and he was coming down. Or maybe it was the reverse,” Plunkett said with a laugh, before a rehearsal on Lafayette Street. Dressed in jeans, a turtleneck, and boots on a blustery day, Plunkett brought to mind the actress Sandy Dennis, whom she resembles: reviewing Dennis’s performance in the 1989 play “Any Wednesday,” the critic Walter Kerr wrote, “Let me tell you about Sandy Dennis—everyone should have one at home.” Plunkett shares that aura of approachability.
“Richard told me about a play he was thinking of writing—a ‘disposable’ play, a topical play, a sort of ‘once this time is over, it won’t be of interest’ play, but as time went on he discovered that these plays—these families, really, the Apples and the Gabriels—are universal. In Chekhov, it’s the people. We may not know the politics of that time, but we know, in ‘Ivanov’ or ‘The Cherry Orchard,’ it matters to them. When we brought the Apples to Europe, we thought, ‘Will anyone gets it?’ But the response was extraordinary. Because the core of it is the family: loss of a child, secrets, diminished mental capacity, aimlessness.”
Onstage and off, Plunkett’s ability to inhabit and portray experience has an almost tactile, corporeal quality—when, in conversation, she mentioned watching “Saturday Night Live” in bed, her face softened and transposed itself so that she looked, fleetingly, like a woman in a nightgown peering at a screen. Her performances have the kind of intelligence and emotional range that prods an audience to find that heightened capacity in themselves. Theatergoers who have followed Nelson’s plays during these past few years have adopted her and her husband, the actor Jay O. Sanders, who played her brother Richard in “The Apple Family Plays,” and her brother-in-law George in the Gabriel trilogy. “We walk down the street and people say, ‘It’s the Apples,’ or ‘It’s the Gabriels!,’ ” Plunkett said. “I can see them thinking, Look, they’re still hanging out! You realize that you’ve entered people’s lives.”
A reason that audiences find Plunkett familiar in a “Don’t I know you?” kind of way is that she has been an almost constant presence on the stage, in movies, and on television. Plunkett was born in 1953 in Lowell, Massachusetts, graduated from the University of New Hampshire and was a founder of the Portland Stage Theatre. In 1985 she succeeded Bernadette Peters in “Sunday in the Park with George,”; in l987, she won a Tony for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for “Me and My Girl,” with a performance that Frank Rich, in The Times, called “beguiling” and “crucial.” Plunkett has played opposite Martin Sheen as Elizabeth Proctor, in “The Crucible,” and as Alice More to Frank Langella’s Thomas More, in “A Man for All Seasons.”
Trekkies remember her with ardor as Lieutenant Commander Susanna Leijten, who tried to rescue a fellow-member of Starfleet in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”: “You’re not one of them yet, Geordi. I can help you if you’ll just trust me.” In “The Squid and the Whale,” Plunkett was the beleaguered Park Slope high-school principal, Mrs. Lemon. Her performance as Evelyn Baxter, Claire Underwood’s associate, and a manager of the Clean Water Initiative, in the first two seasons of “House of Cards” was nuanced and indelible.