Kathleen Chalfant is an actress. Broadway: Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Racing Demon, Dance With Me. Off-Broadway: Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Connecticut Critics Circle, and Obie Awards), For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, A Walk in the Woods (Drama Desk nomination), Talking Heads (Obie Award), Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination), Henry V (Callaway Award). London and Los Angeles: Ovation Awards for Wit and Red Dog Howls. Film: Isn’t it Delicious?, R.I.P.D., Lackawanna Blues, Perfect Stranger, Kinsey, Laramie Project, Random Hearts. Select Television: The Affair, The Strain, The Americans, House of Cards, The Book of Daniel, One Life to Live, Madam Secretary, Elementary, Voices from the White House, A Death in the Family, Storm of the Century. Awards: 1996 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, 2004 Lortel Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the League of Professional Women. She received the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley awards and an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Cooper Union.
