As You Like It, directed by Terry Hands, opposite Peter McEnery in Stratford-upon-Avon and the following year in London. This she followed with Plenty, another play from David Hare, at the National Theatre, for which she received the 1978 "Best Actress" Evening Standard Theatre Award, with a runner-up position as "Best Actress in a New Play" in that season's Oliviers. She was cast in a similar role, playing opposite Bill Paterson, in Hare's BAFTA-award-winning companion play Licking Hitler, for BBC television. Again on screen, in 1978 Nelligan played the part of Isabella in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Measure for Measure, a performance that led the New York Times to describe her as providing "the image of idealized faultlessness". In 1979, she was the female lead alongside Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier in Dracula. In 1981, she starred opposite fellow Canadian Donald Sutherland in Eye of the Needle, a wartime espionage thriller based on the Ken Follett best-selling novel. Two years later Nelligan moved to New York City, where she earned nominations for the Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play three times and one Featured Actress in a Play between 1983 and 1989 for the five Broadway plays in which she appeared. In 1991, Nelligan won a BAFTA for "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" for her performance in Frankie and Johnny. For her performance in the 1991 film The Prince of Tides she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Between 1987 and 2004, she was nominated for five Gemini Awards for her performances in Canadian television mini-series and films and won twice, both in 1993. In 1996, she played the wife of James Mink in the CBS television film Captive Heart: The James Mink Story. Personal life Nelligan and American composer Robert Reale married in 1989. Together they have a son. The couple divorced in 2000. Filmography Film Television Broadway plays Plenty (1983) A Moon for the Misbegotten (1984) Serious Money (1988) Spoils of War by Michael Weller, Music Box Theatre New York (1988) Love Letters (1989) An American Daughter (1997) Awards and nominations References External links 1950 births Canadian film actresses Canadian stage actresses Canadian television actresses Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award winners Best Supporting Actress Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Actresses from London, Ontario Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Living people Canadian expatriates in