Colleen Dewhurst
Actor, Film actor
1924 – 1991
Who was Colleen Dewhurst?
Colleen Rose Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actress known most for theatre roles, and for a while as "the Queen of Off-Broadway." In her autobiography, Dewhurst wrote: "I had moved so quickly from one Off-Broadway production to the next that I was known, at one point, as the 'Queen of Off-Broadway'. This title was not due to my brilliance but rather because most of the plays I was in closed after a run of anywhere from one night to two weeks. I would then move immediately into another." She was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O’Neill on the stage, and her career also encompassed film, early dramas on live television, and Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. She was also renowned for her television work playing Marilla Cuthbert in the Kevin Sullivan TV movie adaptations of the Anne of Green Gables series and her reprisal of the role in the subsequent TV series Road to Avonlea.
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- Born
- Jun 3, 1924
Montreal - Also known as
- Colleen Rose Dewhurst
- Parents
- Spouses
- George C. Scott
(1967/07/04 - 1972/02/02) - George C. Scott
(1960 - 1965) - James Vickery
(1947 - 1960) - Ken Marsolais
(1975 - 1991)
- George C. Scott
- Children
- Nationality
- Canada
- United States of America
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Milwaukee-Downer College
- Lived in
- Montreal
- Died
- Aug 22, 1991
South Salem
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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