Colleen Dewhurst

Colleen Dewhurst
Born 3 June 1924(1924-06-03)
Montreal, Quebec, CanadaDied 22 August 1991(aged 67)
South Salem, New York, U.S.Spouse(s) James Vickery (1947-1960)
George C. Scott(1960-1965, 1967-1972) Awards won Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries/Movie
1986 Between Two Women
1989 Those She Left Behind
Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series
1989, 1991 Murphy Brown Tony Awards Best Lead Actress in a Play
1974 A Moon for the Misbegotten
Best Featured Actress in a Play
1961 All the Way Home

Colleen Dewhurst (June 3, 1924 – August 22, 1991) was a Canadian actress whose distinguished stage career also encompassed significant work in film and television.

1 Biography
2 Awards and nominations
3 References
4 External links

Biography

Early life

Dewhurst was born in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of a hockey player turned businessman and his homemaker wife. Her mother was a practitioner of Christian Science.[1] Dewhurst was raised in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, where she attended Whitefish Bay High School and the Milwaukee-Downer College.[2]

Career

Her breakthrough stage role, which made her a major success, came in 1974 after 27 years of acting, when she appeared in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten as "Josie Hogan". She interpreted many roles in O'Neill plays. She also received great acclaim for her appearance opposite her then-husband, George C. Scott, in a 1971 television adaptation of Arthur Miller's The Price, on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. In 1977, Woody Allen cast her in his film Annie Hall as Annie's mother.

She was president of the Actors' Equity Association from 1985 until her 1991 death from cervical cancer at the age of 67. Dewhurst's Christian Science beliefs led to her refusal to countenance any kind of surgical treatment.

Personal life

Dewhurst was married to James Vickery from 1947 to 1960, and to actor George C. Scott, twice, for a total of approximately 10 years, with both marriages ending in divorce. She was the mother of two sons, including actor Campbell Scott, with whom she costarred in Dying Young (1991), one of her last performances.

During the last years of her life, she lived on a farm in South Salem, New York with her partner, Ken Marsolais, and also in a summer home on Prince Edward Island, in her native Canada.

Dewhurst died in at her South Salem home on August 22, 1991. According to Find A Grave, she was cremated and her ashes were given to family or friends.

Awards and nominations

Over the course of her 45 year career, Dewhurst won the 1974 Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre, two Tony Awards, two Obies and two Gemini Awards. In 1989 she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Hitting Home. Of her twelve Emmy Award nominations, she won four.

Awards

1986: Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special – Between Two Women
1989: Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series – Murphy Brown
1989: Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special – Those She Left Behind
1991: Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series – Murphy Brown

1974: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
1961: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

Nominations

1990: Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series – Road to Avonlea
1990: Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special – Lantern Hill
1991: Emmy Award for Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries – Lantern Hill