Raised in NYC

Debut as a dancer with the American Ballet in "Petrouchka"

Stage acting debut with Cambridge Summer Theater

Broadway debut as a servant in "Medea"

Appeared with Katharine Cornell in "That Lady" (1949) and "The Tower Beyond Tragedy" (1950)

Early TV appearance in a production of "Macbeth"

Feature acting debut, "The Lonely Night"

Acted in "The Chalk Garden" on Broadway

Moved to Southern California; acted on stage in in occasional films

Returned East to appear in "The Wall" on Broadway

Performed in Tennessee Williams' "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore"

Initial stage collaboration with Edward Albee, "Tiny Alice"

Appeared as Herodias in "The Greatest Story Ever Told"; last feature for over a decade

Played Julia, the much married daughter of a warring couple (played by Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn), in Albee's "A Delicate Balance"; received Tony Award for her performance

Was a member of faculty of the Juilliard School of Drama; among her students were Kevin Kline, Gerald Guiterrez and Frances Conroy

Earned a Best Actress in a Play Tony Award nomination for Oliver Hailey's "Father's Day"; show opened and closed on the same night

Played over 900 performances as the magistrate and later as Alan's mother in "Equus"

Made one-shot return to features as Harvey Kietel's mentally unbalanced mother in "Fingers"

Portrayed the titular dancer in "Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Russian Navy"

Published her memoirs "The Bright Lights"

Co-starred as the murdered wife of playwright Sydney Bruhl in the long-running "Deathtrap"; acted in over 1,000 consecutive performances, landing her in the "Guinness Book of World Records" and having her name elevated above the title

Played the starchy matron in the hit Off-Broadway play "Painting Churches"

Played ALice B Toklas in "Gertrude Stein and a Companion"

Resumed film career portraying Alice B Toklas to Jan Miner's Gertrude Stein in "Gertrude Stein and a Companion"

Co-starred in the ill-fated (and ill-conceived) musical sequel "Annie 2: Miss Hanigan's Revenge" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and its revised version at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut

TV series debut as regular on the short-lived ABC sitcom "Good & Evil"

Had featured role in the screen comedy "The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag"

Offered a memorable turn as Aunt Brook on a holiday episode of "Murphy Brown" (CBS)

First acted in Edward Albee's award-winning "Three Tall Women"; later appeared in the Off-Broadway production (1994) as Woman B and on tour (1995-1996) as Woman A

Appeared as the Widow Douglas in "Tom and Huck"

Portrayed former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the HBO biopic "Truman"

Was interviewed for the Oscar-nominated documentary "Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press"

Cast as the grumpy woman who inadvertently passes a stolen computer chip to her next-door neighbor (Alex D Linz) in "Home Alone 3"

Acted alongside former student Kevin Kline in "Ivanov", directed by Gerald Guitterez, another former student

Played the terminally ill mother of the mentally-challenged Kevin Bacon in "Digging to China", helmed by Timothy Hutton

Returned to Broadway, replacing an ailing Irene Worth in the revival of "Ring Round the Moon", directed by Guitterez; earned Best Actress Tony Award nomination as the wheelchair-bound Madame Desmermortes

Had supporting role as a mysterious housekeeper in "The Haunting"

Acted on stage as a theatrical grande dame in The Drama Dept. production "The Torch-Bearers"

Starred in Edward Albee's "The Play About the Baby", staged at the Alley Theater in Houston; reprised role in Off-Broadway production in 2001

Appeared in "Town & Country"

Had featured role in the Neil Simon Broadway comedy "45 Seconds from Broadway"