Born Anna Marie Duke in Elmhurst, NY. Gifted former child performer who had appeared in more than 50 TV shows by the time she won fame on Broadway in The Miracle Worker at the age of 12; she won an Oscar®, reprising her role as the young Helen Keller, for the 1962 screen adaptation. In 1979 she won an Emmy® for playing Keller's teacher -- the role originally played on Broadway and in the film by Anne Bancroft -- in a TV version of the same play. Duke made a successful transition to teen star playing vivacious twins on the cutesy, popular TV series "The Patty Duke Show" (1963-66), but since her disastrous appearance in the dreadful cult classic VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1967) and the commercial failure of ME, NATALIE (1969), she has concentrated on TV. Duke has appeared in numerous made-for-TV movies and mini-series (CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS, 1976, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1984) and as the first woman President of the United States in the short-lived series, "Hail to the Chief" (1985). An unglamorous, earnest performer, Duke has most often played sensitive but troubled types who sometimes display an inner reserve of considerable strength but never lose their essential ordinariness. Duke starred as herself in the 1990 TV adaptation of her autobiography, CALL ME ANNA, which revealed her turbulent childhood and her victory over manic depression. (She would later write another book, the co-authored Surviving Sexual Assault, in 1983.) Duke was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1985 and resigned from the post in 1988. During her marriage to actor John Astin (1973-82), by whom she is the mother of actor Sean Astin, she was billed as Patty Duke Astin. For her production credit on her autobiographical TV movie, CALL ME ANNA, she used the name Anna Duke-Pearce.  Supporting Actress 1962: THE MIRACLE WORKER 1 nomination, 1 Award