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Swoosie Kurtz is an Emmy Award and Tony Award winning American <a href="/biography/swoosie-kurtz">actress</a>. Swoosie Kurtz was born on September 6, 1944, in Omaha, Nebraska. Swoosie was the only <a href="/biography/swoosie-kurtz">child</a> of Air Force <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kurtz">Colonel</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kurtz">Frank Allen Kurtz</a> and author Margaret “Margo” Kurtz. Her name, which rhymes with “Lucy”, was given to her by her father. The intention behind it was to give homage to the plane that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kurtz">colonel</a> flew during World War ll. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kurtz">colonel</a> piloted an early Boeing B-17D Flying Fortress bomber named “The Swoose”, half swan, half goose. This same aircraft (USAAC 40-3097) once carried future-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson">president</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a> back to Australia from Port Moresby, New Guinea, after he rode as a Navy observer on a B-26 raid on Lae. “The Swoosie” is now owned by the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. Swoosie likes her name and when she was asked if she had ever considered changing it she responded “Change it to what - Tiffany? It's been an advantage. It's unforgettable. I'm the only one."

Due to her father’s military profession, Swoosie had to relocate often during her childhood and lived in eight different states. On the experience, Swoosie says “I was always the new <a href="/biography/swoosie-kurtz">kid</a> with this strange name." Swoosie attended the University of Southern California where she majored in drama. Afterward, she went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. It’s safe to say that Swoosie was always into acting and her passion for the profession manifested early in her childhood. Kurtz’s professional career began when she was only seventeen years old. Swoosie appeared on the American sitcom “The Donna Reed Show” for a televised episode during the fourth season of the long-running and popular show. Swoosie, along with her father, also appeared on the game show “To Tell the Truth” in 1962. Her father was the contestant and eighteen-year-old Swoosie came out to identify him at the end of the game by handing him his uniform jacket. She rose to prominence, portraying Gwen Landis in the play ‘Fifth of July,’ and this led her to earn Broadway’s “triple crown”; notably the ‘Tony’, the ‘Outer Critics Circle’ and the ‘Drama Desk’ awards.

In 1975, Swoosie was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress">Best Actress</a> in a Principal Role for her performance in “The Philanthropist” at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Illinois. In 1978 she was a part of the ensemble of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tyler_Moore">Mary Tyler Moore</a>’s series called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tyler_Moore">Mary</a>. This ensemble featured celebrities like <a href="/biography/david-letterman">David Letterman</a>, who later on went on to become one of the most popular television hosts in American television history. Since then, Swoosie has appeared in many different television shows; received several Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, and, in 1990, was awarded an Emmy for her guest-starring performance on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Burnett">Carol Burnett</a>'s comedy series “Carol & Company”. Swoosie’s Broadway debut was the 1975 revival of ‘Ah, Wilderness!’. She later earned widespread recognition with the stage productions of ‘A History of the American Film’ and ‘Uncommon Women and Others.’ Starting from the late 1970s, Swoosie was also featured in several television movies, such as ‘Walking Through the Fire’ (1979), ‘Baja Oklahoma’ (1988), ‘The Image’ (1990), ‘And the Band Played On’ (1993), and ‘A Promise to Carolyn’ (1996). Swoosie made her big-screen film debut in the late 1970s when she appeared in such films as ‘Slap Shot’ (1977) and ‘Oliver's Story’ (1978). Later in her career, Swoosie Swoosie appeared in several major Hollywood productions including the 1983 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie">Agatha Christie</a> drama ‘Caribbean Mystery,' the 1988 historical drama ‘Dangerous Liaisons,’ the 1996 comedy ‘Citizen Ruth,’ the 1997 <a href="/biography/jim-carrey">Jim Carrey</a>-starrer blockbuster fantasy-comedy ‘Liar Liar,’ and the 1999 romantic teen-drama ‘Cruel Intentions.’

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During her career, Swoosie managed to win an Emmy award and two Tony awards. She was also nominated for a variety of different awards for her theatrical and television performances. Over the course of her career, she has managed to accumulate an estimated total net worth of $9 million.

Unfortunately, there are not as many cheerful events in her personal life in comparison to what she has achieved with her career. Swoosie never got married and has no children. However, in an interview held in April 2014, she shared that she had an abortion back in the 1960s. Regardless, she is still one of the most highly-regarded actresses and an autographed wallpaper of her is still quite precious. Swoosie Kurtz has definitely left an impressive mark on both Hollywood movie scenes and the Broadway’s theatre. She is an <a href="/biography/swoosie-kurtz">actress</a> that has brought so much to the world of acting and she might still have few tricks in her sleeves, regardless of her advanced age.

Swoosie Kurtz’s new book “Part Swan, Part Goose: An uncommon Memoir of Womanhood, Work, and Family, outlines the parallels between her mother’s career and her own. “My mom and I made very different life choices, but at the same time, they paralleled each other. It was my mother’s story that led me to write my own memoir. It was at the start of the Iraq War that I reread my mother’s memoir of being a war wife. Her longing and waiting are universal and I wanted others to connect with her story”. In her memoir, Swoosie also describes the heartache around caring for aging parents. She says, “In Europe, it is understood that your parents will end up living with you,” Kurtz told me. “Not in the U.S. Do we really expect to just put our parents out to pasture?” Although she never married and has no children of her own, Swoosie says that she is happy with the life that she has led. “I can say that the love of my life has been my parents. And I am satisfied with that.” Swoosie Kurtz is currently starring in the television show “Mike and Molly” with fellow comedic <a href="/biography/melissa-mccarthy">actress</a> <a href="/biography/melissa-mccarthy">Melissa McCarthy</a>.

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