Won two Obie Awards and two Tony Awards.
Won two Tony Awards: in 1961, as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "All the Way Home" and in 1974, as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "A Moon for the Misbegotten." She also received six other Tony nominations: as Best Actress (Dramatic), in 1962 for "Great Day in the Morning," in 1964 for "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," in 1968 for "More Stately Mansions," in 1972 for "All Over," and in 1973 for "Mourning Becomes Electra," and as Best Actress (Play), in 1977 for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".