Dana Ivey

Ivey, Dana (b. 1942), actress. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and educated at Rollins College and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Ivey spent many years in regional theatre before making her New York debut in 1981. She was first noticed giving proficient supporting performances in such Off‐Broadway plays as Quartermaine's Terms (1983) and Baby with the Bathwater (1983), then on Broadway in Heartbreak House (1983) and Sunday in the Park with George (1984). Ivey originated the role of the stubborn Southern senior citizen Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy (1987) and also shone as the spy Helen Kroger in Pack of Lies (1985), the secretive refugee Evelyn in Kindertransport (1994), and the Atlanta matriarch Boo Levy in The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997).