Zoe Caldwell, a four-time Tony Award winner and film actress, died on Tuesday at the age of 86 from complications due to Parkinson’s disease, according to her son.
Born in Melbourne in 1933, Caldwell began her theatrical career at the age of nine in a production of “Peter Pan” and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in London at the age of 20. In 1965, she made her Broadway debut in the John Whiting play “The Devils,” and a year later she won her first Tony for her performance in the Tennessee Williams play “Slapstick Tragedy. She later won Tonys for her performances in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1968, “Medea” in 1982, and “Master Class” in 1995.