Anna Deavere Smith

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1950 age 0

   Born

2. 1993 age 43

   CreditDave

   CreditPhiladelphia

3. 1995 age 45

   CreditThe American President

4. 2003 age 53

   CreditThe Human Stain

5. 2004 age 54

   CreditThe Manchurian Candidate

6. 2005 age 55

   CreditCry Wolf

   CreditRent

7. 2007 age 57

   CreditThe Kingdom

8. 2008 age 58

   CreditRachel Getting Married

9. 2018 age 68

   CreditCan You Ever Forgive Me?

10. 2021 age 71

    CreditFlora & Ulysses

11. 2023 age 73

    CreditGhosted

• JDJonathan Demme3 titles
• CNCharles Napier2 titles
• RCRoger Corman2 titles
• TWTracey Walter2 titles
• PLPaul Lazar2 titles
• HNHarry Northup2 titles
• TFTak Fujimoto2 titles
• BIBill Irwin2 titles
• ADAnn Dowd2 titles
• SSSebastian Stan2 titles

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• My life's work has been to go around America with a tape recorder trying to become America word for word. And I've met a lot of people who I disagree with. I've met a lot of people who you would think I would disagree with. But I have to say it's enriched my sense of being an American to reach out to people who are very, very different from me…

  Anna Deavere Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I do believe that character is a process, that truth is a process, and I am not interested in winning and losing…

  Anna Deavere Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0

• …White racism is about people who don’t feel so bad about fixed things. But white racism is a fixed thing, and it is perpetuated because of fixedness. Anything that we can do that causes people to desire movement more than fixedness is going to disrupt racism…

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• The words are verbatim. The words are exactly what the people said. When I was a girl, my grandfather said, “If you say a word often enough, it becomes you,” and that’s really my technique. I really believe that if I learn exactly what somebody said, that I will find myself, as an actor, in a similar state of mind as them. I’ll never know what they’re really thinking, but I’ll have some of their feelings…

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