Mary-Joan Negro (born January 9, 1951)^[1] is an actress of stage, film, and television. Negro has appeared in nearly fifty television shows and films and numerous stage productions since the early 1970s.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} Since the mid-1990s she also directs and teaches theatre in addition to her screen appearances.^[2]

Negro was born inYonkers, New York.^[1] After graduating with aBA inDrama andLanguage Arts from theUniversity of Michigan, she was granted aJuilliard scholarship, and in 1970, joined the first class of the Drama Division underJohn Houseman,^[2] along withKevin Kline andDavid Ogden Stiers. She graduated from the class in 1972, at which time Houseman wanted to form an equity company.^[7]

Theatre

Negro is a founding member of John Houseman's and Margot Harley'sThe Acting Company inNew York City, and ofJoseph Stern'sMatrix Theatre Company inLos Angeles, and The Antaeus Company.^[2]

Her stage performances includeBroadway,off-Broadway, and Americanrepertory companies such as The Acting Company,San Diego'sOld Globe Theatre, and the O'Neill Playwrights Conference inConnecticut.^[2]

Negro was nominated for aTony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role inArthur Kopit'sWings (1979), directed byJohn Madden.^[2][8]

Television and film

In 1976 as part of theGreat Performances series,PBS produced and televisedWilliam Saroyan's play,The Time of Your Life featuring Keven Kline in which Negro played the role of Society Lady.^[9][10] Also in the 1970s, she began appearing on televisions series such asKojak (1976) andThe Andros Targets (1977), and the television movieThe Family Man (1979). In 1983, she appeared on PBS inAmerican Playhouse in an adaption of Kopit'sWings in the role of Amy.^[11] Other special appearance roles include Helen Matian in theABC Afterschool Special episode, "Date Rape" (1988), and Barbara Fitts in theCBS Schoolbreak Special episode "Other Mothers (1993)."

Negro appeared twice on theCBS seriesThe Equalizer. In the 1988 episode "The Child Broker" she played Irene Winters, the hard-working single mother of teenager Danny, played byChristopher Collet, who is being led into criminality by Shep Morrow, played byThomas G. Waites. In the 1989 episode "Lullaby of Darkness" she portrays Rebecca Morrison, the belittled and battered wife of Joseph Morrison, played byStephen Lang. Also in the 1980s, Negro appears onAnother World (1982),Remington Steele (1983), two 1986 episodes ofSpenser: For Hire, and the television movieThe Littlest Victims (1989).

She had two roles onNBC's seriesLaw & Order, the first in the 1991 episode "In Memory Of" and the second in 1994, "White Rabbit," in which she portrayed Rita Levitan, an alias for her real name, Susan Forrest. In "White Rabbit," Rita is accused of murdering a police officer 25 years prior, while committing a heist as Susan, a member of a radical anti-war group.^[12] Also in the 1990s, she had a recurring role as Roberta Braun onThe Practice (1997), as well as roles onL.A. Law (1990),Touched by an Angel (1998), and the television movieThe Patron Saint of Liars (1998).

In the 2001, Negro made guest appearances onNYPD Blue as Mary McElroy,Frasier as Joanne, and again onThe Practice, this time in a new role as the plaintiff's attorney, Audrey Turner. She also appeared onCrossing Jordan (2002). In 2004 she appeared inCold Case as Renee (2004) in a 1969 case hearkening back to the post-Summer of Love era in "Volunteers." That same year Negro played Pam Morton on CBS's legal dramaJudging Amy, and appeared onShowtime'sHuff. She also had roles on ABC's political dramaCommander in Chief as Margaret Shoop, and as Emma Hadley in the medical dramaER, both in 2006

Negro's theatrical film appearances includeDominick and Eugene (1988),Employee of the Month (2004),Moonbeams (2001), andMont Reve (2012).

Negro directs and teaches at venues that include The Acting Company, the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles, theCalifornia Institute of the Arts, and at theUniversity of Southern California where she is a Professor of Theatre Practice.^[2][13][14]

Mary-Joan Negro was married to fellow actorNorman Snow, who was also a member of John Houseman's The Acting Company.^[15][16]

Some of Mary-Joan Negro theatre appearances include the following.^[8][1]

• Mary-Joan Negro at theInternet Broadway Database
• Mary-Joan-Negro at Broadway World
• Mary-Joan Negro atIMDb
• Mary-Joan-Negro at Turner Classic Movies

• Living people
• American stage actresses
• American television actresses
• American film actresses
• 20th-century American actresses
• 21st-century American actresses
• 1951 births

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