MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE

Little Rock connection: Lived in Little Rock for a few years in the 1980s.  In 1986, she starred in ‘night, Mother at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre.

Tony Awards connection: She was nominated for a Tony for Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks. She also was a replacement cast member in the Tony winning Best Plays Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Lost in Yonkers (succeeding actresses who had received Tony Awards for their performances).