She was innate Geraldine Sue Site inside Kirksville, Missouri. She attended a Goodman Theatre Dramatic School & exposed acting by having Uta Hagen. She began appearing around futures at a age of 17. She earned critical laurels for her performances within many Tennessee Williams plays like Summer and Smoke and Sweet Bird of Youth.

She move around film too when Broadway. Around 1960 she won a Sarah Siddons Award for her work within Chicago theatre. Her film debut was within Away from a Nighttime (1947). Her role inside Hondo, garnered her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Altogether, despite her comparatively little filmography, Website standard eight Academy Award nominations. She won for her final nomination for The Trip to Bountiful (1985). She likewise voiced a uproariously evil "Madame Medusa" in the Disney alive film The Rescuers.

Site has as well appeared inside television productions and won Emmy Awards for two Truman Capote stories, A Christmas Memory (1967) & A Thanksgiving Visitor (1969).

She was married to fiddler Alexander Schneider from either 1954 to 1957. Late she married Sevener years immature Texan actor, Rip Torn, in 1963 and they remained married until her demise, despite the fact that shortly prior to her dying he experienced been publicly studied for conducting an adulterous affair by owning a great deal immature actress (Amy Wright, natural inside 1950), whom he experienced impregnated.

Site & Torn experienced tierce tykes, the girl (actress Angelica Torn) & twin sons.

Site died of the heart attack inside 1987 while appearing in Sir Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit on Broadway (along with Judith Ivey and Blythe Danner) at the comparatively immature age of 62.

Academy Awards and Nominations
1986 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Trip to Bountiful 1985 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Pope of Greenwich Village 1979 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role for Interiors 1973 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ''Pete 'n' Tillie 1967 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for You're a Big Boy Now 1963 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sweet Bird of Youth 1962 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role for Summer and Smoke 1954 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Hondo''