About Phyllis Newman
Phyllis Newman was an American actress and singer. She won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Martha Vail in the musical Subways Are for Sleeping on Broadway, received the Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2009 and was nominated for another Tony for Broadway Bound (1987), as well as two nominations for Drama Desk Awards. Newman was a perennial guest performer with Johnny Carson on NBC's The Tonight Show, and was the first woman to guest host the show. Newman created the role of former madame Renée Divine Buchanan on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live and was a regular on the primetime series 100 Centre Street and the satirical series That Was The Week That Was. Newman became a major television celebrity of the 1960s and 1970s, a frequent panelist on the top-rated network game shows What's My Line?, To Tell the Truth and Match Game.
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