Zoe Caldwell, who has died aged 86 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease, was one of the leading classical stage actors of the last century and won four Tony awards on Broadway, for her performances in Slapstick Tragedy, by Tennessee Williams (1966), and as Muriel Spark’s Miss Jean Brodie (1968), Euripides’ Medea (1982) and Terrence McNally’s Maria Callas in Master Class (1995). Her career was spread across three continents, so her reputation for the ferocity and musical intensity of her acting – she was a small woman with a large voice and gutsy physical presence – never grew to the proportions it merited.
She went to Stratford-upon-Avon for the last two seasons before Peter Hall launched the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961 and appeared as Bianca to Paul Robeson’s Othello, Cordelia to Charles Laughton’s King Lear, and with Laurence Olivier and Edith Evans in Coriolanus.
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