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The original "Miss Daisy" in the first Off-Broadway production "Driving Miss Daisy," written by her personal friend and fellow Southerner Alfred Uhry. The movie role, however, went to Jessica Tandy, who, after several decades of award-winning theatre work, won her first Oscar as the matron.

In 2007, received her 5th Tony nomination for Butley (in which she co-starred with Nathan Lane who revived Alan Bates' Tony award-winning role). She did not win, but she is now among only a handful of Broadway veterans to have received 5 or more Tony award nominations for acting in both plays and musicals, among whom are Angela Lansbury, Julie Harris, and Audra McDonald.

In 1984, she was nominated for two Tony Awards: as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," and as Best Actress (Featured Role - Musical) for "Sunday in the Park with George," a performance she recreated in the television version of the same title, Sunday in the Park with George (1986). This made her one of only three actors (the others being Amanda Plummer and Kate Burton) to receive two Tony nominations for acting in the same year. She was also nominated in 1987 as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "The Last Night of Ballyhoo."

Member of Phi Mu women's sorority (Alpha Omega chapter).

Graduate of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, USA

Daughter of Hugh Ivey, a physicist and professor who taught at Georgia Tech, and Mary Nell Santacroce, a teacher, speech therapist, and actress.

She received her fourth Tony Award Nomination (2005 Best Supporting Actress in a Play) for her role as Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals. Unfortunately, she did not win.

She was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in January 2008. She was honored with the John Houseman Award at The Acting Company Gala in October 2013.

Nominated for the 2005 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actress in a Drama for "The Rivals".

Starring in a new play by Evan Smith, "The Savannah Disputation at the Off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons Theater in New York City. (January 2009)

Dana is one of 6 performers to be receive two acting Tony nominations in different categories in the same year. She was nominated in 1984 for "Heartbreak House"(Featured Actress in a Play) and "Sunday in the Park with George"(Featured Actress in a Musical). The other performers to share that distinction are Amanda Plummer, Kate Burton, Jan Maxwell, Mark Rylance, and Jeremy Pope. Only Amanda Plummer and Mark Rylance won one of their nominations, and no one has won both.

Currently serving on the National Council of the Actors' Equity Association. (May 2005)

Starring in the Williamstown Theater Festival production of "Home"; along with Richard Easton, Philip Goodwin, Roberta Maxwell, C.J. Wilson. (August 2008)