Legendary Stage, Screen and TV Star Brenda Vaccaro Guests On Harvey Brownstone Interviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Legendary Stage, Screen and TV Star Brenda Vaccaro.

Brenda Vaccaro is a legendary actress whose many unforgettable performances spanning over 6 decades on the stage, in the movies and on TV have brought her world wide acclaim.

She won a Theater World Award in 1962 for her Broadway debut in “Everybody Loves Opal”. She then received 3 Tony Award nominations for her performances on Broadway in “Cactus Flower,” “How Now, Dow Jones,” and “The Goodbye People.”

She received a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1970 for Most Promising Female Newcomer for her very first movie role in “Where It’s At”. For her performance in “Midnight Cowboy”, she received Best Supporting Actress nominations for a Golden Globe Award AND a Laurel Award.

And a few years later, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and she WON a Golden Globe Award for her brilliant portrayal of “Linda” in “Once is not Enough”. She earned a Saturn Award nomination for her work in “Capricorn One”.

And she’s co-starred in many other great movies including “I Love My Wife”, “Going Home”, “The House By the Lake”, “Airport ‘77”, “The First Deadly Sin”, “Love Affair”, “The Mirror Has Two Faces”, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and the romantic comedy “Boynton Beach Club”. For her work on television, she won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in “The Shape of Things”.

And she received 3 more Emmy Award nominations for her work in “Sara”, “The Golden Girls” and the highly acclaimed mini-series, “You Don’t Know Jack”, for which she also won a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress AND a nomination for an Online Film and Television Association Award.

Her television credits also include “Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg”, “Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones”, “A Long Way Home”, “Paper Dolls”, “Gypsy”, and many more shows. And of course, she’s renowned for her voice work in “The Smurfs”, “The Critic” and “Johnny Bravo”. In 1992, Brenda Vaccaro was named the “Queen of Brooklyn” at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival. And in 2001 she received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Italian Film Association.

Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.

​After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995.  He has presided in family and criminal courts.   He has been a trailblazer in several ways.  He was the first openly gay judge in Canada.  He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.

​Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community.  When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married.  In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

​In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby.   Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers.  Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years.  Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.

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