23 Facts About Colleen Dewhurst

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Colleen Rose Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actress mostly known for theatre roles.

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Colleen Dewhurst was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O'Neill on the stage, and her career encompassed film, early dramas on live television, and performances in Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival.

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Colleen Dewhurst was born 3 June 1924, in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Frances Marie and Ferdinand Augustus "Fred" Colleen Dewhurst.

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Colleen Dewhurst's mother was a Christian Scientist, a faith Colleen embraced.

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Colleen Dewhurst attended Whitefish Bay High School for her first two years of high school, moved to Shorewood High School for her junior year, and graduated from Riverside High School in Milwaukee in 1942.

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Colleen Dewhurst attended Milwaukee-Downer College for two years, then moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.

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Colleen Dewhurst previously won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in 1961 for All the Way Home.

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Colleen Dewhurst later played Katharina in a 1956 production of Taming of the Shrew for Joseph Papp.

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Colleen Dewhurst played Shakespeare's Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth for Papp and years later, Gertrude in a production of Hamlet at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.

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Colleen Dewhurst appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode Night Fever in 1965 and with Ingrid Bergman in More Stately Mansions on Broadway in 1967.

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Colleen Dewhurst appeared in 1962 as Joanne Novak in the episode "I Don't Belong in a White-Painted House" in the medical drama The Eleventh Hour, starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging.

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Colleen Dewhurst appeared opposite her then husband, Scott, in a 1971 television adaptation of Arthur Miller's The Price, on Hallmark Hall of Fame, and an anthology series.

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Colleen Dewhurst was the first actress to share a love scene with Wayne in bed.

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Colleen Dewhurst was on hiatus from Road to Avonlea when she died in 1991.

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Colleen Dewhurst won a total of two Tony Awards and four Emmy Awards for her stage and television work.

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Colleen Dewhurst was president of the Actors' Equity Association from 1985 until her death.

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Colleen Dewhurst was the first national president to die in the office.

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Colleen Dewhurst was married to James Vickery from 1947 to 1960.

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Colleen Dewhurst looked like a warrior, so people assumed she was the earth mother.

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Colleen Dewhurst couldn't stop herself from taking care of people, which she then did with more care than she took care of herself.

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Colleen Dewhurst died of cervical cancer at the age 67 at her South Salem home in 1991.

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Colleen Dewhurst was cremated and her ashes were given to family and friends; no public service was planned.

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Colleen Dewhurst was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.