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Patty Duke

American actress (–)

Patty Duke
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Born	Anna Marie Duke ()December 14, New York City, U.S.
Died	March 29, () (aged&#;69) Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Cemetery, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Other&#;names	Patty Duke Astin Anna Duke-Pearce
Occupation	Actress
Years&#;active	–
Spouses	Harry Falk &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Michael Tell &#; &#; (m.&#;; ann.&#;)&#; John Astin &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Michael Pearce &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Children	3, including Sean and Mackenzie Astin
In office –
Preceded by	Ed Asner
Succeeded by	Barry Gordon

Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (December 14, – March 29, ) was an American actress. Over the course of her acting career, she was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

At age 15, Duke portrayed Helen Keller in the film The Miracle Worker (), a role she had originated on Broadway. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The following year, she played the dual role of "identical cousins" Cathy and Patty Lane on her own network television series The Patty Duke Show (–). She progressed to more mature roles, such as Neely O'Hara in the film Valley of the Dolls () and Natalie Miller in the film Me, Natalie (). The latter earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. From to , she served as president of the Screen Actors Guild.

Duke was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in Following her diagnosis, she devoted much of her time to advocating for and educating the public on mental health. She was also an occasional singer and author.

Early life

Patty Duke was born Anna Marie Duke on December 14, at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan

Patty Duke was born Anna Marie Duke on December 14, in Elmhurst, Queens County, New York, to Frances Margaret (McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a cab driver and handyman. She was seven eighths Irish and one eighth German. Her acting career began when she was introduced to her brother Ray Duke's managers, John and Ethel Ross. Soon after, Anna Marie became Patty, the actress. Patty started off in commercials, a few movies and some bit parts. Her first big, memorable role came when she was chosen to portray the blind and deaf Helen Keller in the Broadway version of "The Miracle Worker". The play lasted almost two years, from October 19, to July 1, (Duke left in May ).

In , The Miracle Worker () became a movie and Patty won an Academy Award for best supporting actress. She was 16 years old, making her the youngest person ever to win an Oscar. She then starred in her own sitcom titled The Patty Duke Show (). It lasted for three seasons, and Patty was nominated for an Emmy. In , she starred in the movie Billie (). It was a success and was the first movie ever sold to a television network. That same year, she married director Harry Falk. Their marriage lasted four years. She starred in Valley of the Dolls (), which was a financial but not a critical success. In , she secured a part in an independent film called Me, Natalie (). The film was a box-office flop, but she won her second Golden Globe Award for her performance in it. In the early s, she became a mother to actors Sean Astin (with writer Michael Yell) and Mackenzie Astin (with actor John Astin).

In , she won her second Emmy Award for the highly successful mini-series, Captains and the Kings (). Other successful TV films followed. She received two Emmy nominations in for A Family Upside Down () and Having Babies III (). She won her third Emmy in the TV movie version of The Miracle Worker (), this time portraying "Annie Sullivan".

In , she was diagnosed with manic-depressive

From the PEOPLE Archive: Inside Patty Duke's Life and 'Heartbreaking' Youth as a Child Star

Patty Duke, best known as Helen Keller in the film The Miracle Worker and for headlining her own sitcom, has died, She was In , just ahead of her 40th birthday, the actress sat down with PEOPLE to discuss love, career and her troubled past. Read the profile below:

“Little Patty Duke is gonna be 40 next year? Wow! How can that be? I’d swear she was 18 just a minute ago!”

Little Patty Duke – and at an even five feet she still Is little – giggles at her self-parody. “That’s exactly how I feel about it,” she says, “like someone who’s been watching me on TV all these years.” But Patty Duke fans who remember her as the Broadway prodigy from The Miracle Worker or as the reckless young actress who kept Hollywood gossip columnists guessing are in for a shock. Little Patty Duke is the mother of five sons, plays strictly adult roles onscreen and off and two weeks ago succeeded Ed Asner as president of the Screen Actors Guild.

For Patty it has been a watershed year, another turning point in a life that could have been written by Dickens, with music and lyrics by Freud. Running for the SAG presidency against actor Ed Nelson (she had the endorsement of Asner and the union’s nominating committee), Duke spoke and pumped hands on both coasts. Though her ABC series, Hail to the Chief, collapsed last summer after only seven episodes, she rebounded quickly, recently completing A Time to Triumph, a CBS movie in which she plays a woman who joins the Army to support her family. Her year marriage to actor-director John Astin, which had its stormy ups and downs, ended last February in divorce. And she has begun to relive her entire turbulent and sometimes painful career for an autobiography to be published by Bantam Books.

Duke’s SAG victory, by 3, votes out of more than 19, cast, may have written finis to the much publicized feuding between the union’s social and pol

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Patty Duke

Patty Duke
Duke in
Born	Anna Marie Duke ()December 14, [Manhattan], New York City, New York, United States
Died	March 29, () (aged&#;69) Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States
Other&#;names	Patty Duke Astin Anna Duke-Pearce
Occupation(s)	Actress, author, mental health advocate
Spouse(s)	Harry Falk (m. , divorced) Michael Tell (m. , annulled) John Astin (m. , divorced) Michael Pearce (m. , her death)
Children	Sean Astin Mackenzie Astin Kevin Pearce
In office –
Preceded by	Edward Asner
Succeeded by	Barry Gordon
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Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (December 14, &#; March 29, ) was an Americanstage, television and movieactress. She was born in Manhattan, New York City. Duke was married to actor John Astin and had two children; Mackenzie Astin and Sean Astin.

In , at age 16, Duke won the Academy Award for "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. At the time, she was the youngest person to win the award.

On March 29, , Duke died of sepsis from a ruptured intestine in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. She was 69 years old.

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