Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film and television actress.
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Network (1976). Her performance is the shortest ever to win an Academy Award for acting, at five minutes and two seconds of screen time.
Previously she had won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Drama for playing Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible.
Films with pages on TV Tropes:
- The Nun's Story (1959) as Mother Christophe (Sanatorium)
- Network (1976) as Louise Schumacher
- Endless Love (1981) as Rose Axelrod
- Poltergeist (1982) as Dr. Lesh
- Two of a Kind (1983) as Ruth
- Chiller (1985) as Marian Creighton
TV series with pages on TV Tropes:
- Playhouse 90 (1958, episode "Shadows Tremble") as Grace
- Dr. Kildare (1961, episode "For the Living") as Pamela Rainey
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959-1960, episodes "Special Delivery" and "The Cuckoo Clock") as Cynthia Fortnam / Ida Blythe
- Route 66 (1961-1963, three episodes) as various characters
- Mission: Impossible (1966, episode "Zubrovnik's Ghost") as Dr. Martha Richards Zubrovnik
- The Felony Squad (1967, episode "Who'll Take Care of Joey") as Victoria Cahill
- Wonder Woman (1977, episodes "The Return of Wonder Woman" and "The Bermuda Triangle Crisis") as Hippolyta
- St. Elsewhere (1988, three episodes) as Marjorie Andrews
