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Ms. Ebersole won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in "Grey Gardens". Previously, she was awarded the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama League awarded her both a citation and the Outstanding Performance of the Year, and she was named to its dais for 2007. She also received a special citation from the New York Drama Critics' Circle and the Obie for her off-Broadway turn in "Grey Gardens".

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Went to MacMurray College (in Jacksonville, Illinois), class of '75.

Alumna of New Trier Township High School West, Northfield, Illinois.

Aunt of actress Janel Moloney.

Won Broadway's 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for a revival of "42nd Street." In 2003, she was Tony-nominated as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of the George S. Kaufman - Edna Ferber comedy "Dinner at Eight."

She adopted her three children with Moloney. One is black and the other two are Asian.

In 2007, Ebersole won her 2nd Tony Award for her dual role of "Little" Edie Beale and Edith Bouvier Beale in the musical "Grey Gardens".

Studied at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Her children are Elijah (b. 1993), Mae Mae (b. 1996) and Aron (b. 1997).

Played Ado Annie in a major Broadway production of "Oklahoma!" at the Majestic Theater in 1979.

Won the 2007 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Musical for "Grey Gardens".

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(October 2002) Honorary Doctorate from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. Address given at college's Homecoming convocation.

(March 2005) Starring in Steel Magnolias on Broadway (M'Lynn - the Sally Field role in the movie)

(July 2006) Spring, 2006: Starred off-Broadway in the demanding dual role of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter "Little Edie" in the new musical Grey Gardens (based on the notorious Maysles Brothers documentary) for which she won the Obie, Drama Desk and Drama League Awards and overwhelming critical acclaim. The show will open on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in October, 2006.

(October 2006) She lives with her family in Maplewood, New Jersey.

(2009) Starring as Elvira in Noel Coward's play "Blithe Spirit" on Broadway

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