Virginia Downing (March 7, 1904 – November 21, 1996) was an American actress on Broadway and Off-Broadway.
Personal life and death Downing was born on March 7, 1904, in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and worked as a translator of plays for Garson Kanin. She was in the 1990 play Richard III which also starred Denzel Washington. Her husband was the actor John Leighton. Downing died on November 21, 1996, while on her way to a theater due to a heart attack.
Broadway plays Father Malachy's Miracle Forward the Heart Cradle Will Rock A Gift of Time We Have Always Lived in the Castle Arsenic and Old Lace
Off-Broadway plays Juno and the Paycock The Man with the Golden Arm Palm Tree in a Rose Garden Play with a Tiger The Weives The Idiot Medea Mrs. Warren's Profession Mercy Street Thunder Rock Pygmalion First Week in Bogota Rimers of Eldritch Les Blancs Shadow of a Gunman All The Way Home Winter's Tale Billy Liar Shadow and Substance Silent Catastrophe Ernest in Love Night Games Frog In His Throat All That Fall Richard III'
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