---
name: "Fannie Flagg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/fannie-flagg"
fi1m_id: "fannie-flagg"
imdb_id: "nm0280840"
tmdb_id: 18251
wikidata_id: "Q433207"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 September 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T21:51:13.309311+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Fannie Flagg

## Identity

Fannie Flagg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/fannie-flagg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** fannie-flagg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0280840
- **TMDB ID:** 18251
- **Wikidata ID:** Q433207
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Flagg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433207, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0280840/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18251

Writer. Born 21 September 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 September 1944, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- **Active:** 1970–1991
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 82 (2), 1990s 75 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Flagg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433207, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0280840/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18251

## Biography

Fannie Flagg is an American actress, comedian and author. Born Patricia Neal on 21 September 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, she adopted her stage name to avoid confusion with another actress. She began writing and performing plays as a child and studied acting at the Pittsburgh Playhouse after winning a scholarship through the Miss Alabama pageant.

Flagg appeared in films including *Five Easy Pieces* (1970), *Stay Hungry* (1976) and *Grease* (1978), and on television series such as *Wonder Woman* and *The Love Boat*. She was a frequent panellist on the game show *Match Game* in the 1970s and 1980s, and performed on Broadway in *Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean* and *The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas*.

Her 1987 novel *Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe* was adapted into the 1991 film *Fried Green Tomatoes*, for which she co-wrote the screenplay with Carol Sobieski. The adaptation earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America nomination. She has continued to publish novels after her last acting credit in 1999.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, encyclopediaofalabama.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Fried Green Tomatoes* (1991), Fi1m 75, as Teacher — [page](https://film.one/film/fried-green-tomatoes.md)
- *Grease* (1978), Fi1m 76, as Nurse Wilkins — [page](https://film.one/film/grease.md)
- *Five Easy Pieces* (1970), Fi1m 88, as Stoney — [page](https://film.one/film/five-easy-pieces.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Grease Story* (2017), as Nurse Wilkins
- *Crazy in Alabama* (1999), as Sally
- *Fried Green Tomatoes* (1991), as Teacher · Screenplay, Novel — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/fried-green-tomatoes.md)
- *My Best Friend Is a Vampire* (1987), as Mrs. Capello
- *Dolly* (1987), series, Location Assistant, Writer
- *Harper Valley* (1981), series, as Cassie Bowman
- *Harper Valley P.T.A.* (1981), series, as Cassie Bowman
- *Grease* (1978), as Nurse Wilkins — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/grease.md)
- *Rabbit Test* (1978), as The President's Wife
- *The Love Boat* (1977), series, as Alicia Finch, Liz Merritt, Laurie Ryan
- *Sex and the Married Woman* (1977), as Virginia Ladysmith
- *Stay Hungry* (1976), as Amy
- *Wonder Woman* (1975), series, as Amazon Doctor
- *Some of My Best Friends Are...* (1971), as Helen (Mildred Pierce)
- *The New Dick Van Dyke Show* (1971), series, as 'Mike' Preston
- *Five Easy Pieces* (1970), as Stoney — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/five-easy-pieces.md)
- *The All-Girl Filling Station*, Novel

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1992: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Fried Green Tomatoes*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Harper Lee Award 2012: Harper Lee Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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