Lindsay Crouse

Crouse was born at Le Roy Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side,{{Cite news|title='The Legs' a Grandma|author=|date=June 29, 1948|work=New York Herald Tribune|pages=16|quote=Move actress Marlene Dietrich became a grandmother yesterday when her 24-year-old daughter, Mrs. William Riva, gave birth to an eight-pound boy. The film star visited Le Roy Hospital, 40 E. 61st St., to see her new grandson.|id={{ProQuest|1335213290}}}} the daughter of Anna (née Erskine){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/theater/anna-e-crouse-who-championed-discount-tickets-for-broadway-dies-at-97.html|title=Anna E. Crouse, 97, Dies; Championed Discount Tickets for Broadway|first=Bruce|last=Weber|newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 6, 2014}} and Russel Crouse, the playwright and librettist. Her maternal grandparents were author and educator John Erskine and his wife Pauline Ives.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=argLAQAAIAAJ&q=John+Erskine+Pauline+Ives+Anna |title=Newsweek – Google Books |year=1945 |via=Google Books|access-date=April 24, 2013}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lI5LAAAAYAAJ&q=John+Erskine+Pauline+Ives+Anna |title=Who's who in New York City and State – Lewis Randolph Hamersly – Google Books |via=Google Books|access-date=April 24, 2013|last1=Hamersly |first1=Lewis Randolph |last2=Leonard |first2=John William |last3=Mohr |first3=William Frederick |last4=Knox |first4=Herman Warren |last5=Holmes |first5=Frank R. |last6=Downs |first6=Winfield Scott |year=1938 }} Lindsay Ann Crouse's full name is an intentional tribute to the Broadway writing partnership of Lindsay and Crouse, which consisted of her father and his writing partner, Howard Lindsay. The two wrote much of The Sound of Music.Killeen, Wendy. [https://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/07/22/crouse_plays_the_belle/ "Crouse plays the belle."] Boston Globe. July 22, 2007 Their 1946 play State of the Union won that year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Their last collaboration was Mr. President in 1962. As Crouse has said: "In our family, the work ethic was held up as some kind of byword ... At any hour, somebody's typewriter was going.""Lindsay Crouse keeps up a Family Stage Tradition." New York Times. January 2, 1981.

After graduating from the Chapin School in 1966{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVsYDAAAQBAJ&q=chapin+school+radcliffe&pg=PA99|title=David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre|first=I.|last=Nadel|date=April 30, 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230378728|via=Google Books}}

and Radcliffe College in 1970, Crouse began her performing career as a modern and jazz dancer, but she soon switched to acting and made her Broadway debut in Much Ado About Nothing in 1972.Zucker, Carole (1995). [https://books.google.com/books?id=YU72BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 Figures of Light: Actors and Directors Illuminate the Art of Film Acting]. Springer Science + Business Media, LLC. p. 12. {{ISBN|978-0-306-44949-9}}. She received her acting training at HB Studio[https://hbstudio.org/about-hb-studio/alumni/ HB Studio Alumni] in New York City.

Crouse's film career began in 1976, with small roles in television and theatrical movies. In 1977, she appeared as Lily Braden, the discontented wife of hockey player Ned Braden in Slap Shot. In 1982 she appeared as the decisive witness in The Verdict. Crouse was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1984 movie Places in the Heart. Among her films was a starring role in House of Games, the 1987 film directed and written by her then-husband David Mamet, in which she plays Margaret Ford, a psychiatrist who is intrigued by the art of the con. "It's always hard to be directed by someone who's close to you," Crouse says. "Because everybody needs to go home and complain about the director. Everybody."Clements, Warren. "A Master in the Art of the Con." The Globe and Mail. August 31, 2007

Crouse has appeared in featured and guest roles in a number of television series. Notable roles include a recurring portrayal of Kate McBride, a lesbian police officer on Hill Street Blues during its sixth season in 1986. This was the first lesbian recurring character on a major network.{{cite news|author=Maya Salam |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/arts/television/lesbian-tv-shows.html |title=The Very (Very) Slow Rise of Lesbianism on TV - The New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=November 29, 2019 |access-date=2019-12-09}} Crouse is also known for her role in the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where she was a recurring supporting cast member playing Professor Maggie Walsh. Crouse has also guest-starred on Alias, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Columbo, Criminal Minds, Law & Order, ER, Millennium, and NYPD Blue.

In recent years, Crouse has concentrated on the theater. "Once you get your driver's license, you end your film career," says Crouse. "Look at my generation. Great actresses like Glenn Close and Susan Sarandon—there's nothing written for anyone over a certain age."Beggy, Carol and Mark Shanahan. [https://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2007/07/20/shedding_light_on_sunshine/ "Crouse: No complaints."] Boston Globe. July 20, 2007. In 2007, Crouse opened a revival of The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman show about the life of poet Emily Dickinson, at the Gloucester Stage in Gloucester, Massachusetts. "You can't stop and recite something," says Crouse. "You have to keep the poetry very, very active, which is pretty easy with Dickinson. She was striving so hard to understand what life was about. It's very dramatic poetry in that way.[http://www.innewsweekly.com/innews/?class_code=Ar&article_code=4233 "The 'belle' of Gloucester."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928010602/http://www.innewsweekly.com/innews/?class_code=Ar&article_code=4233 |date=September 28, 2007 }} Innews Weekly. July 25, 2007.

Crouse appeared in Lee Blessing's Going to St. Ives with the Gloucester Stage Company during the summer of 2008Pope, Jeff. [http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_109002315.html?keyword=secondarystory "Gloucester Stage Company plans five plays, Sunday readings for 29th season."] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130124234724/http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_109002315.html?keyword=secondarystory |date=January 24, 2013 }} Gloucester Times. April 18, 2008.] and provided the narration for Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place, a documentary film about Virginia Lee Burton.[http://www.wickedlocal.com/manchester/archive/x647000989/North-Shore-Film-Festival-wraps-up-on-May-8-and-9 "North Shore Film Festival wraps up on May 8 and 9."] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130209163306/http://www.wickedlocal.com/manchester/archive/x647000989/North-Shore-Film-Festival-wraps-up-on-May-8-and-9 |date=February 9, 2013 }} Wicked Local Manchester. May 7, 2008.] In 2021, she appeared in a limited engagement of Mornings at Seven at Broadway's Theatre at St. Clements.{{Cite web|title=Morning's at Seven Revival to Star Lindsay Crouse, Judith Ivey, Patty McCormack, and More {{!}} TheaterMania|url=https://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/mornings-at-seven-revival-to-star-lindsay-crouse_92695.html|access-date=2021-12-09|website=www.theatermania.com|date=September 2021 |language=en-US}}

After a relationship with Robert Duvall,{{cite news |title=Robert Duvall, Hollywood's No. 1 Second Lead, Breaks for Starlight |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20067777,00.html |first=Laura |last=Stevenson |magazine=People |access-date=December 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104213721/http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C20067777%2C00.html |archive-date=November 4, 2013 |date=5 September 1977}} Crouse married playwright David Mamet in 1977. The two had met during the production on Slap Shot."For Mamet and Crouse, A Movie is a Family Affair." New York Times. October 11, 1987. John Lahr writes in his book Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles that when Mamet married Crouse in 1977, he "married into show business aristocracy". Lahr also writes that Mamet received his first screenwriting assignment through Crouse. Crouse was on her way to audition for Bob Rafelson's 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice, and jokingly Mamet told Crouse to tell Rafelson that "he was a fool if he didn't hire me to write the screenplay." But Crouse said this to Rafelson, who called Mamet; when the director asked why he should hire him for the screenplay, Mamet replied, "Because I'll give you a good screenplay or a sincere apology." Mamet received the job.{{cite book|title=Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles|first=John|last=Lahr|authorlink=John Lahr|date=2000|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley, California|isbn= 9780520233775|page=43}} She and Mamet divorced in 1990.[http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/david_mamet_001.html "David Mamet (1947–)."] Theatre Database. Their marriage produced two daughters, Willa and Zosia Mamet.

Crouse's brother is Timothy Crouse, author of The Boys on the Bus about political journalism during the 1972 presidential campaign.

Crouse is a Buddhist. In 2005, she organized an annual Buddhist educational program, originally held at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts in Rockport, Massachusetts,McCarthy, Gail. [http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_204234220.html "Actress brings third annual Buddhist retreat to Rockport."] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130125081417/http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_204234220.html |date=January 25, 2013 }} Gloucester Daily Times. July 23, 2007. and then in 2010 moved to The Governor's Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts.{{cite web|title=The Summer Retreat with Ven. Sumati Marut, Cindy Lee, Rick Blue, Lindsay Crouse|url=http://www.thesummerretreat.org}} Crouse has spoken on the relevance of Buddhism in the modern world: {{blockquote|[Buddhism] is not an exclusive club. It has something to offer everyone at all levels ... Buddhism is dynamic and has captured the interests of Americans. Even our quantum physics validate[s] ideas the Buddha taught 2,500 years ago.McCarthy, Gail. McCarthy. [http://www.lamamarut.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/wind_aug05.pdf "Actress brings Buddhist retreat to Windhover."] Glouster Daily Times. August 25, 2005.}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120112070711/http://www.magga.com/drama.html Lindsay Crouse's additional Buddhist teachings posted online]

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