An icon of stage and screen, Brenda Vaccaro has been nominated for an Academy Award, won Emmy and Golden Globe Awards, a Theater World Award, People’s Choice Award and been nominated three times for a Tony Award.
This year, Brenda Vaccaro Joins HBO MAX’s Original Show … “And Just Like That…” The new chapter of the groundbreaking HBO series “Sex and the City”. Brenda Vaccaro plays Gloria Marquette, Mr. Big’s loyal, long-time secretary.
Born in Brooklyn, Brenda was raised in Dallas, Texas, she returned to New York City to enroll in the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse and later debuted on Broadway in John Patrick’s play Everybody Loves Opal, with Eileen Heckart, for which she received a Theatre World Award. She later starred on Broadway in shows including “The Affair,” “The Natural Look,” “Children from Their Games,” “Father’s Day,” and Neil Simon’s “Jake’s Women,” and “The Odd Couple.” In California, she starred in the one-woman show “Full Gallop,” as fashion mogul Diana Vreeland. She was nominated for Tony Awards for her performances in the Abe Burrows comedy “Cactus Flower,” Herb Gardner’s “The Goodbye People,” and George Abbott’s musical “How Now, Dow Jones.” Vaccaro next starred in the Academy Award-winning film “Midnight Cowboy,” which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Vaccaro went on to star in numerous films, including “Going Home,” “Capricorn One,” “Airport ’77,” “I Love My Wife,” “Summertree,” “Supergirl” “Love Affair,” “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” “Cookie,” “Boynton Beach Club,” earned a Golden Globe nomination for “Where It’s At,” and won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for “Once Is Not Enough.”
Aside from making guest appearances on such shows as Friends, Superior Donuts and King and Queens, Vaccaro was Emmy- nominated for guesting on “The Golden Girls” and for Barry Levinson’s HBO film “You Don’t Know Jack.” She can also be seen on Netflix’s “Gypsy,” and most recently in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Ms. Vaccaro has starred on television in three series of her own: “Sara,” for which she was an Emmy Award nominee, “Dear Detective,” and “Paper Dolls.” She won an Emmy Award for her performance on the comedy special “The Shape of Things.”
Among her other many notable telefilms and miniseries are Stanley Kramer’s “The Trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg,” “Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones,” “Sunshine,” “Honor Thy Father,” “A Long Way Home,” and “The Pride of Jesse Hallam.”
Vaccaro was the voice of ‘Mama Bravo’ on “Johnny Bravo,” and ‘Scruple’ on “The Smurfs.” Her other voice work includes roles on such series as “American Dad,” “Spawn,” and “Darkwing Duck.” She can be heard in the Oscar-nominated “Kubo and the Two Strings.”