Starring on Broadway in the original production of “On Golden Pond” in 1979, Sternhagen created the role of the mother, Ethel Thayer, played by Katharine Hepburn in the 1981 feature adaptation. In a long career on Broadway, Sternhagen was seven times a Tony nominee, winning in 1974 for featured actress in a play for Neil Simon’s “The Doctor” and in 1995 for featured actress in a play for a revival of “The Heiress.” Her other Tony nominations were for Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” featured actress, in 1972 “Equus,” featured actress, 1975 “Angel,” actress in a musical, 1978 “On Golden Pond,” actress in a play, 1979 and Paul Osborn’s “Morning’s at Seven,” featured actress in a play, 2002. She was also known for her stint on NBC’s “Another World” as Jane Overstreet in the early 1970s.
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