2018 Honoree - Performing Arts

Brenda Vacarro

Ms. Vaccaro is an Award-winning American stage, television, and film actress. She is a three-time Tony Award nominee, for the plays Cactus Flower, How Now, Dow Jones, and The Goodbye People. Ms. Vaccaro received a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Shirley in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight; for Jacqueline Susann's Once is Not Enough, she won the Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for an Academy Award for it as well. She performed in many movies such as Supergirl, Boynton Beach Club, and Ten Little Indians. She's had a long career in television including appearances on the shows Johnny Bravo, The Fugitive, Marcus Welby, M.D., Love Boat, Murder She Wrote, The King of Queens, Touched by an Angel, Friends, and Gypsy. She won an Emmy for her role in The Shape of Things. Most recently she plays the voice of Kameyo in the movie Kubo and the Two Strings.