| Angelica Page | |
| Birth Name: | Angelica Sue Torn |
| Birth Date: | 17 February 1964 |
| Birth Place: | New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Actress, director, producer, writer |
| Years Active: | 1993–present |
| Spouse: | |
| Children: | 2 |
| Parents: | |
Angelica Page (née Angelica Sue Torn; February 17, 1964) is an American actress, director, producer and screenwriter. She is the only daughter of actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. Credited as Angelica Torn in her early career, she legally and professionally changed her name to Angelica Page in September 2011.[1]
Page began her career in the 1993 Broadway revival of Anna Christie, and made her feature film debut in Nobody's Fool (1994). In 1998, she starred in a Broadway production of Side Man, which earned her a Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress. She subsequently appeared in the films The Sixth Sense (1999), and the political drama The Contender (2000).
She continued to appear Off-Broadway throughout the 2000s, returning to Broadway with a supporting part in a 2012 revival of The Best Man. In 2015, she starred as her mother, Geraldine Page, in the touring stage production Turning Page, a biographical play which she also wrote. Additional film credits include Michael Imperioli's The Hungry Ghosts (2009), and the thriller Never Here (2017).
Page was born Angelica Sue Torn on February 17, 1964, in New York City to actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page.[2] She was raised in New York City, and has noted that her parents' marriage was turbulent and marked by frequent fighting. Though she was encouraged by her mother to act, Page described herself as a "shy child" and was resistant to pursuing it. Page attended the Bank Street School for Children in Manhattan.[3]
After her mother's death in 1987, Page began exploring acting as a career option, as it had been her mother's "dying wish". She commented: "My mother died before she ever had a chance to see me realize this dream that she apparently had for me, but never spoke of. She wanted me to make my own decisions, but then at the end when she realized she didn't have any time left, she made me promise."[4] Page studied acting at the William Esper Studio and HB Studio.
Page's first professional role was on Broadway as an understudy in the 1993 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie. She subsequently made her feature film debut in Nobody's Fool (1994), and appeared in several independent films before having a supporting role in M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense (1999). Also in 2000, she had a supporting role in Amos Kollek's Fast Food Fast Women (2000), and in the Academy Award-nominated political drama The Contender (2000).[5] The following year, she had a supporting role as Patty opposite John Travolta in the thriller Domestic Disturbance (2001).[5]
On stage, Page received the Helen Hayes Award (Best Actress 2000) for her work in the Tony Award-winning Side Man at the Kennedy Center.[6] This followed closely after being honored with the New York People's Choice Award in the Best Supporting Actress category (1999) for her portrayal of Patsy, a role she originated for the same production.
Nominated for her second Helen Hayes Award (Best Actress 2010) for her portrayal of Ivy Weston in the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning (Broadway and National Tour), her performance was heralded as "revelatory" by the Chicago Tribune. On television, she appeared as Julia Brinn in (2005); other television credits include , The Sopranos, 100 Centre Street, and As the World Turns. In 2009, she had a supporting role in the Michael Imperioli-directed drama The Hungry Ghosts.
In 2015, Page developed the one-woman show Turning Page, a biographical play in which she portrayed her mother. The production opened in Los Angeles before touring nationally, and Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times praised it, writing: "For those who have been touched by Page's sorcery—and I personally don't know any great actor who hasn't been—Angelica's virtuosic conjuring of her mother's spirit is something to behold." The production continued to tour into 2017.[7]
Page is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio who actively supports charities[8] and is considered acting royalty.[9]
Page married Keith William Burkhardt in 1984, and with him gave birth to a son, Elijah,[10] and a daughter named Tana. The couple divorced in 1992.
She subsequently married actor Tim Williams in 1998 after the two had met while performing in a 1996 stage production titled Strangers in the Land of Canaan, directed by her father.[11] The marriage ended in divorce in 2001.
She married television creator Dmitry Lipkin (FX, HBO) in 2017[12] in a private ceremony at Soniat House in New Orleans.[13]
She has commented that she had a loving yet combative relationship with her father, stating: "He's a worthy adversary. He's a very strong personality. He's an amazing person, an amazing father, but sometimes there are certain things we don't see eye to eye on. I call him on it and we fight, just like anybody else."[4]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Nobody's Fool | Ruby | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 1996 | The Mouse | Mary Lou Strauss | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 1998 | Wrestling with Alligators | Ruby | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 1999 | Side Man | Patsy | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Mrs. Collins | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2000 | Fast Food Fast Women | Vitka | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2000 | The Contender | Deirdre | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2000 | Songs in Ordinary Time | Astrid Haddad | Television film Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2000 | Brooklyn Sonnet | Gina | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2001 | Domestic Disturbance | Patty | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2001 | Ruby's Bucket of Blood | Betsy Dupree | Television film Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2002 | Fairie | Morgana | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2003 | Music | Babe | Short film Credited as Angelika Torn | |
| 2007 | Light and the Sufferer | Marilla | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2007 | The Grand Inquisitor | Lady Di Jesus | Short film Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2008 | Lucky Days | Virginia | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2008 | Nothing but the Truth | Molly Meyers | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2008 | The Golden Boys | Melissa Busteed | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2009 | The Hungry Ghosts | Roberta | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2010 | Mint Julep | Deirdre | Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2016 | 79 Parts | Frick | ||
| 2017 | Never Here | Cleo Flitcraft | ||
| 2018 | Bonds | Doc | ||
| 2018 | The Turner Exhibit | Jeanette Turner | Short film |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Law & Order | Sarah Tabor | Episode: "Savages" Credited as Angelica Torn |
| 1997 | As the World Turns | Kit | 1 episode Credited as Angelica Torn |
| 1999 | The Sopranos | Woman at Party | Episode: "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" Credited as Angelica Torn |
| 2000 | Deadline | Nurse | Episode: "Shock" Credited as Angelica Torn |
| 2001 | 100 Centre Street | Episode: "Love Stories" Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2002 | The Education of Max Bickford | Lindsay | Episode: "Money Changes Everything" Credited as Angelica Torn |
| 2002 | Law & Order | Georgina Woods | Episode: "Equal Rights" Credited as Angelica Torn |
| 2003 | Paula Connors | Episode: "Happy Family" Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2004 | Line of Fire | Angela | Episode: "Eminence Front: Part 2" Credited as Angelica Torn |
| 2005 | Julia Brinn | Episode: "Quarry" Credited as Angelica Torn | |
| 2015 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Mrs. Evans | Episode: "Melancholy Pursuit" |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | class=unsortable | |
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| 1993 | Anna Christie |
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| 1996 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Honey | Regional production | [15] | |
| 1996 | Strangers in the Land of Canaan | Off-Broadway | |||
| 1998 | Side Man |
| John Golden Theatre Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress | ||
| 2000 | The Vagina Monologues | Ensemble | Off-Broadway | [16] | |
| 2003–2007 | Edge | Off-Broadway; touring production | [17] | ||
| 2009 | Ivy Weston | Regional production NominatedHelen Hayes Award for Best Actress | [18] | ||
| 2011 | The Radiant | Regional production | [19] | ||
| 2012 | Psycho Therapy | Lily | Off-Broadway | [20] | |
| 2012 | The Best Man |
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| 2014 | My Old Lady | Chloe | Palm Beach Drama Works | [21] | |
| 2015 | Turning Page | Touring production | [22] | ||
| 2018 | Because I Could Not Stop | Off-Broadway | [23] |