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Bridget Hanley has starred and guest-starred on
innumerable television movies, mini-series, pilots, and
episodes throughout her forty year career, but is
perhaps best know for her starring role as Candy Pruitt
on the vintage ABC series HERE COME THE BRIDES, opposite
Bobby Sherman, David Soul, Robert Brown, and Joan
Blondell, and the NBC series HARPER VALLEY, P.T.A.,
co-starring with Barbara Eden, George Gobel, and Fannie
Flagg. But it is the theatre that has recaptured her of
late; including two award-winning solo performances, MAY
DAY SERMON and BRONWEN, THE TRAW, AND THE SHAPE-SHIFTER,
written by the late James Dickey (former poet Laureate
and author of DELIVERANCE), which she has toured
throughout the United States and abroad.
She created the role of
Maggie in Chazz Palminteri’s FAITHFUL, was nominated for
Best Leading Actress as Anna in the World Premiere of
Ray Bradbury’s THE CISTERN, appeared in Steve Allen’s
musical version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL with Harold Gould,
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM with Lee Meriwether and Frank Gorshin,
sang and danced in a long run of the new musical YOU
HAVEN’T CHANGED A BIT…AND OTHER LIES, and played 17
different women for seven months in the award-winning
40th Anniversary Production of SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY,
directed by Betty Garrett. Ms. Hanley’s first role at
Radford University was that of a visiting parent to her
daughter, Megan Swackhamer, who was a Radford student
from 1993-1995. She returned as Blanche DuBois in A
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE in 1996 and was invited back in
1998 for the dual role of Mrs. Clackett/Dottie Otley in
NOISES OFF. It is an honor indeed to be asked back for a
third time to portray Eleanor of Aquitaine in THE LION
IN WINTER.
Ms. Hanley graduated
with a BA in Drama from the University of Washington and
began her professional career at the Little Fox and
On-Broadway Theatres in San Francisco. Productions there
led her to Los Angeles, and a long-term contract with
Screen Gems at Columbia Pictures. She is a member of The
Actors’ Studio, Theatre West, is on the Western Council
of The Actors’ Fund of America, and is associated with
Women in Film and Women in Theatre. Upon her return to
Los Angeles, she will begin rehearsals for an upcoming
production of NUNSENSE with Lee Meriwether and Betty
Garrett.
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