Virginia Downing

Downing was born on March 7, 1904, in Washington, D.C.{{cite book |last=Willis |first=John |date=1974 |title=Theatre World 1972-1973 Season |publisher=Crown Publishers Inc. |page=[https://archive.org/details/theatreworld197200john/page/244 244] |isbn=0517506181 |url=https://archive.org/details/theatreworld197200john/page/244 }} She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and worked as a translator of plays for Garson Kanin. She was in the 1990 play Richard III which also starred Denzel Washington. Her husband was the actor John Leighton. Downing died on November 21, 1996, while on her way to a theater due to a heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/09/arts/virginia-downing-stage-actress-92.html?auth=login-facebook&login=facebook |title=Virginia Downing, Stage Actress, 92 |date=December 9, 1996 |website=The New York Times |access-date=November 21, 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/1996/scene/people-news/virginia-downing-1117466278/ |title=Virginia Downing |date=December 10, 1996 |website=Variety |access-date=November 21, 2019}}

• Father Malachy's Miracle
• Forward the Heart
• Cradle Will Rock
• A Gift of Time
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• Arsenic and Old Lace{{cite book |editor1-last=Willis |editor1-first=John |editor1-link=John A. Willis |editor2-last=Lynch |editor2-first=Tom |title=John Willis Theatre World 1996-1997 Season Volume 53 |date=1999 |publisher=Applause Theatre Book Publishers |isbn=1-55783-343-5 |page=258 |chapter=Virginia Downing |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/theatreworld19960000unse/page/258/mode/2up |access-date=2021-05-06}}

• Juno and the Paycock
• The Man with the Golden Arm
• Palm Tree in a Rose Garden
• Play with a Tiger
• The Weives
• The Idiot
• Medea
• Mrs. Warren's Profession
• Mercy Street
• Thunder Rock
• Pygmalion
• First Week in Bogota
• Rimers of Eldritch
• Les Blancs
• Shadow of a Gunman
• All The Way Home
• Winter's Tale
• Billy Liar
• Shadow and Substance
• Silent Catastrophe
• Ernest in Love
• Night Games
• Frog In His Throat
• All That Fall
• Richard III'

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Category:1904 births

Category:1996 deaths

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