Phyllis Newman, who won the 1962 Tony for best supporting actress in the musical 'Subways Are for Sleeping,' later went on to lead causes fighting diseases and issues relating to women's health.
Phyllis Newman, a Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran who became the first woman to host “The Tonight Show” before turning her attention to fight for women’s health, has died. She was 86.
She played Aunt Blanche in the play, then began a brief role in the ABC soap opera “One Life to Live.”“I was supposed to do just five episodes of ‘One Life to Live,’” she told Associated Press in 1988. “I played Renee Devine, an ex-madam from Las Vegas who dressed to kill. The character just took off.”
Her films include “The Human Stain,” “It Had To Be You,” “For the Time Being,” “A Price Above Rubies,” ’'The Beautician and the Beast,” ’'Mannequin,” “To Find a Man” and “Bye Bye Braverman.”In later years she focused on fundraising and founded the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative of the Actor’s Fund in 1996. Her work earned her the 2009 Isabelle Stevenson Award from the Tony Awards.
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