Sonya Wilde

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Sonya Wilde
Born (1937-11-02) November 2, 1937 (age 87)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationFormer actress
Years active1960-1962
Spouse
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(m. 1962)​
Children4

Sonya Wilde (born November 2, 1937) is an American former actress, best known for her starring role in the 1960 film I Passed for White . She started her career as Maria on Broadway with the original cast of West Side Story . [1] [2]

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Career

On Broadway, Wilde was an understudy and replacement in the role of Maria in West Side Story (1957). [3]

Selected filmography

Selected television

Private life

In 1962, Wilde married the banker Jake Butcher, having met him on New Year's Eve 1961 on a blind date. [4] He later became a politician, before spending seven years in prison for fraud. [5] They had four children. [6]

Following her husband's 1985 20-year jail term for bank fraud (he served seven years), Wilde went to court in 1986 to try to keep the family's $675,000 home in the exclusive Sweetwater Club subdivision just outside Orlando. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Donald Bogle (24 October 2001). Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Fourth Edition. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 192. ISBN   978-0-8264-1267-6 . Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Sam Riley (2010). Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 298. ISBN   978-0-313-35813-5 . Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Sonya Wilde". Playbill. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  4. ↑ W Bruce Wheeler, University of Tennessee. "Jacob F. Butcher | Entries". Tennessee Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  5. ↑ W Bruce Wheeler, University of Tennessee. "Jacob F. Butcher &#1detail as24; Entries". Tennessee Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  6. 1 2 United Press International (1986-02-22). "Jake Butcher's Wife Fights To Keep Florida Home". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
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