Tammy Wynette

Tammy Wynette

actress, writer, music department

Tammy Wynette was born on May 05, 1942 in USA. Tammy Wynette's big-screen debut came with From Nashville with Music directed by Eddie Crandall in 1969. Tammy Wynette is known for From Nashville with Music directed by Eddie Crandall, Marilyn Maxwell stars as Mabel and Leo G. Carroll as Arnold. Tammy Wynette has got 4 awards and 12 nominations so far. The most recent award Tammy Wynette achieved is Academy of Country Music Awards. The upcoming new movie Tammy Wynette plays is Stand by Your Man which will be released on May 13, 1981.

Tammy once said: "I spent 15 minutes writing ["Stand by Your Man"], and a lifetime defending it". She was born Virginia Wynette Pugh on May 5, 1942, on her grandfather's cotton farm in Itawamba County, Mississippi. Tammy picked cotton as a child, and as a young woman worked as a waitress, a doctor's receptionist, a barmaid and a shoe factory worker. Shortly before graduating high school, Tammy married high school sweetheart Euple Byrd, an itinerant construction worker who was unemployed more often than not. They were finally forced to live in an abandoned, 60-year-old, 3-room log cabin on a Mississippi farm with no indoor plumbing, no stove and only a wood-burning fireplace for cooking and heat. "Not even the poorest sharecropper would have paid to live there," Tammy noted, but it was rent-free. They had 3 daughters, Gwendolyn ("Gwen"), Jacquelyn ("Jackie"), and Tina. The marriage ended in divorce. Tammy still dreamed of becoming a singer. Then, after a short marriage to singer Don Chapel which ended in annulment, Tammy headed to Nashville to pursue a career as a singer in earnest. As a teenager, her fantasy had been to appear on stage with her singing idol,

  • Birthday

    May 05, 1942
  • Place of Birth

    Itawamba County, Mississippi, USA

Known For

Awards

4 wins & 12 nominations

Academy of Country Music Awards
2000
Winner - Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award
1970
Female Vocalist of the Year
Winner - ACM Award
Grammy Awards
1970
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
Winner - Grammy
1968
Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Female
Winner - Grammy

Movies & TV Shows

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Movies