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Phyllis Newman
American actress and singer
1933 – 2019aged 86
Won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Subways Are for Sleeping, and kept working across stage and television for decades after, earning a second Tony nomination for Broadway Bound in 1987. In 2009 she received the Isabelle Stevenson Award for her advocacy work alongside her stage career.