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Deanna Dunagan (born May 25, 1940) is a Chicago-based 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 Award-winning portrayal of Violet Weston in Tracy Letts' August: Osage County and for her portrayal of Nana in M. Night Shyamalan's 2015 film The Visit.
Dunagan was born and raised in Monahans, Texas, the daughter of Kathlyn (Cosper) and John Conrad Dunagan. The eldest of five children, her father was a Coca-Cola bottler and president of the Texas Historical Association; her mother was a stay-at-home parent with an active presence in the community. In an interview, Dunagan light-heartedly described her extended family, "My heritage is a long line of Southern Baptist and Methodist preachers—who were all just frustrated actors."
Dunagan earned a degree in music education from the University of Texas, Austin. She married her high school sweetheart and gave birth to a son; but the marriage ended a few years later. Following her divorce, Dunagan's parents agreed to fund graduate studies at Trinity University, Texas through the Dallas Theater Center. While writing her Master's thesis, Dunagan lived in Mexico. She was engaged to a bullfighter, but they never married, and she went on to pursue her acting career in the United States.
There are pictures on the shelf
all reminders that you're by your self
and you'd blow out all the candles
if you thought you had the breath
but the fifty years of cigarettes
are taking their effect
Once you would have made a wish
now you know that wishes don't come true
cos if you'd had your wish you would have
left with all your friends
Instead you talk to pictures and write letters
you won't send, saying
'when will it all end'?
Don't break your heart over it
Don't break your heart
Don't break your heart over it
Don't break your heart
Save all your tears
Keep your head clear
You're almost twenty one again.
Thought you'd never make it
did'nt want to anyway
drove your mother crazy
telling her it night and day
she'd sit you at the table
make your cup of tea
flicking through the paper
absentmindedly saying