Tony Nominee Anne Jackson, Frequent Co-Star of Husband Eli Wallach, Dies at 90

Anne Jackson, a Tony nominee who celebrated an illustrious career with the late Eli Wallach—her partner on stage and off—died on April 12. She was 90 years old. Her death was confirmed to the New York Times by her daughter, Katherine Wallach.

Jackson, the youngest of three daughters, was born on September 3, 1926, in Millvale, Pennsylvania. Her family moved to New York when she was seven, and after graduating high school, she went on to study drama at the New School for Social Research.

After making her Broadway debut in 1944’s The New Moon, Jackson went on to appear on the Main Stem in The Cherry Orchard and Signature before meeting Wallach when the two were working on a production of This Property Is Condemned ; they married in 1948.

The pair starred opposite each other on and off-Broadway and on the big and small screens in numerous works. Their joint projects included The Typists, for which Jackson won an Obie Award, Promenade, All!, Twice Around the Park, The Tiger (and the subsequent film adaptation The Tiger Makes Out, Rhinoceros, The Diary of Anne Frank (alongside their daughters Katherine and Roberta) and, in 2000, Down the Garden Path off-Broadway.

In 1956, Jackson earned a Tony nomination for Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Middle of the Night (which Wallach did not appear in). She last appeared on Broadway in The Flowering Peach, in which she and Wallach played a biblical husband and wife (Noah and Esther).

In addition to Katherine and Roberta, Jackson is survived by her son, Peter, as well as her sister, Beatrice Marz, three grandchildren and a great-grandson.