Deanna Dunagan

Deanna Dunagan is a Chicagobased American actress. Although Dunagan has appeared on television and in films, she is most admired for her work as a stage actress. She is best known for her Tony Awardwinning portrayal of Violet Weston in Tracy Letts August Osage County and for her portrayal of Nana in M. Night Shyamalans 2015 film The Visit.

Dunagan was born and raised in Monahans, Texas, the daughter of Kathlyn and John Conrad Dunagan. The eldest of five children, her father was a CocaCola bottler and president of the Texas Historical Association her mother was a stayathome parent with an active presence in the community. In an interview, Dunagan lightheartedly described her extended family, My heritage is a long line of Southern Baptist and Methodist preacherswho were all just frustrated actors.

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