Annalee Jefferies
Annalee Jefferies is an American stage actress.
Early years
Jefferies' father was a ranch manager, and her mother was artistically inclined. She lived in Texas her first 11 years, then moved with her family to Australia. They returned to the United States when she was 15. She was active in drama in high school and college before refining her talent at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.Career
Jefferies was in the nine-hour trilogy of Horton Foote's Orphan’s Home Cycle in New York, directed by Michael Wilson, which won the Drama Desk Award for Theatrical Event of the Season of 2010. She played Blanche in Streetcar Named Desire, Violet in Suddenly Last Summer, Hannah in Night of the Iguana, Carol in Orpheus Descending, and Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, which was among the Wall Street Journal’s best 10 productions of 2009.She toured England in John Barton’s ten hour epic Tantalus, directed by Sir Peter Hall. She spent 20 years as a resident company member at the Alley Theatre and 3 years as a resident company member at the Arena Stage. Her film credits include Hellion, Arlo and Julie, The Sideways Light, The Girl, Monsters, Violets Are Blue, and No Mercy.
On television, Jefferies appeared in Dallas, and War of The Worlds.
She currently lives on a farm in Brenham, Texas.
Film and television
Arlo and Julie - Tess Patriot Act - Dr. Christina Glenka The Sideways Light - Ruth Hellion - Fran War of the Worlds - PBS documentaryDallas - 2 episodes Carina Ain't Them Bodies Saints - Mary The Girl - Gloria Annabel - Molly Monsters - Homeless Woman Walker, Texas Ranger - Molly Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life - Flood Phillips L. A. Law "Dances With Sharks" - Janice Long No Mercy - Susan Violets Are Blue - Sally Charlie's Angels - Joan Freeman- Queen Sugar - Frances Boudreaux
New York stage
Playwrights Horizons
- ElaineRegional stage
Royal Shakespeare Company, Denver Performing Arts Complex
Tantalus - Helen of Troy, Clytemnestra, Andromache, IlioneHartford Stage Company
8 By Tenn - Lucretia, Viola, Grace, Madge The Night of the Iguana - Hannah JelkesA Streetcar Named Desire - Blanche DuBoisSeascape - Sara Three Sisters - Olga- ''Our Town''
Hartford Theatreworks
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan DidionWilliamstown Theatre
An Enemy of the People - Mrs. StockmanAlley Theatre, Houston, Texas
1 woman play - Bad DatesDir: Gregory BoydThe Comedy of Errors - AdrianaTravesties - NadyaOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Nurse RatchetMeasure for Measure - MarianaTartuffe - Elmire
Dir: Michael WilsonA Streetcar Named Desire - Blanche DuBoisAngels in America - Harper PittLips Together, Teeth Apart - ChloeDancing at Lughnasa - Kate
Dir: MiscHedda Gabler - Hedda A View from the Bridge - Beatrice Death and the Maiden - Paulina Salas Our Town - Mrs. Webb Danton's Death - Marion American Vaudeville - Fanny Brice Alfred Stieglitz Loves O'Keiffe - Georgia Henceforward... U.S. Premier - Nan 300F, Corrina A Lie of the Mind - Beth