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Kathleen Chalfant (born January 14, 1945) is an American actress. ==Life and career== Chalfant was born as Kathleen Ann Bishop〔(Search: Kathleen Bishop at familytreelegends.com ); accessed April 3, 2014.〕〔(California Birth Records info. ); accessed April 3, 2014.〕 in San Francisco, California, and was raised in her parents' boarding house in Oakland. Her father, William Bishop, was an officer in the Coast Guard. She studied acting with Wynn Handman, who was a protégé of Sanford Meisner and with Alessandro Fersen in Rome, Italy. Chalfant was nominated for Broadway's 1993 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for her role in Tony Kushner's ''Angels in America: Millennium Approaches''. She earned kudos for her performance as Vivian Bearing in Margaret Edson's play ''Wit''; she shaved her head for the role. During her work with ''Wit'', she incorporated her experiences dealing with terminal cancer of her half-brother, Alan Palmer, who died in 1998. Her awards for her performance include the Outer Circle Critics, Drama Desk, Obie and Lucille Lortel awards. For her 2003 performance in Alan Bennett's ''Talking Heads'', Chalfant won a second Obie award. In 2009, Chalfant performed in ''The People Speak'', a documentary feature film utilizing dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's ''A People's History of the United States''. Chalfant starred in an independent feature film, ''Isn't It Delicious?''. She played Margaret Tilden during the first season of ''House of Cards''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathleen Chalfant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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