Nell Newman
American actress
Elinor Teresa Newman (born April 8, 1959) is an American former child actress who performed under the name of Nell Potts. She is an environmentalist, biologist, and a prominent supporter of sustainable agriculture, who became an entrepreneur when she founded an organic food and pet food production company, Newman's Own Organics.2
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Born Apr 8, 1959.1
Companies
- Newman's OwnChief executive officer11
Early life and education
Born in New York City, she is the eldest child of actress Joanne Woodward and actor Paul Newman. She has two sisters from that marriage and three half-siblings from her father's first marriage. She is a graduate of The Putney School in Putney, Vermont. She attended the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, from which she graduated in 1987.
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Career
Occupation: businessperson, film actor, biologist, actor.5
- Date not recordedChief executive, Newman's Own4
She worked professionally as an actress during the 1960s and 1970s. Under the direction of her father, she played the title character as a child in Rachel, Rachel (1968), in which her mother, Joanne Woodward, portrayed the adult Rachel. In the next decade she starred in the film The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972), which featured her mother as a central character and which was directed by her father.
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Personal life
Newman has been married to Gary Irving since 2005. They reside in California. She is a flexitarian.
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Awards
- 2014Rachel Carson Award9
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataNell Newman on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaNell Newman on Wikipedia
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- 9WikidataNell Newman: award, on Wikidata
- 10WikidataNell Newman: IMDb, on Wikidata
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- 12Wikimedia CommonsNell Newman photo by Nick Step, CC BY 2.0