Colleen Dewhurst (1926 -1991)

• actress
• born June 3, 1926, in Montreal, Quebec
• educated Downer College For Young Ladies, Milwaukee, WI; AADA, New York
• award-winning stage and TV performer whose regal presence has made her a leading interpreter of American playwrights from Eugene O'Neill to Edward Albee
• often cast as sensual, earth-mother types
• first won acclaim on Broadway as James Agee's mother in Tad Mosel's adaptation of Agee's A Death in the Family and All the Way Home (1961)
• appeared in relatively few films,
• memorable as Annie's WASP mother in Annie Hall (1977)
• also played Candice Bergen's mother "Murphy Brown"
• twice married to, and divorced from, actor George C. Scott
• mother of actor Campbell Scott
• Dewhurst was president of Actor's Equity from 1985 to 1991
• filmography

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