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About Colleen Dewhurst
Colleen Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actor mostly known for theatre roles. 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. One of her last roles was playing Marilla Cuthbert in the Kevin Sullivan television adaptations of the Anne of Green Gables series, and her reprisal of the role in the subsequent TV series Road to Avonlea (marketed as Avonlea in the United States). Dewhurst won two Tony Awards and four Emmy Awards for her stage and television work.
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Dewhurst was born 3 June, 1924, in Montreal, Quebec to housewife Frances Marie (nee Woods) and Ferdinand Augustus "Fred" Dewhurst. She had no siblings. Fred Dewhurst was the owner of a chain of confectionery stores, and had been a celebrated athlete in Canada, where he had played football with the Ottawa Rough Riders. Dewhurst's mother was a Christian Scientist, a faith Dewhurst also embraced.
The Dewhursts moved to Massachusetts in 1928 or 1929, staying in Boston, Dorchester, Auburndale, and West Newton; later they moved to New York City, and then to Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. The family became naturalized as U.S. citizens before 1940. She 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. Around this time, her parents separated. Dewhurst attended Milwaukee-Downer College for two years, then moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.
Dewhurst was married to James Vickery from 1947 to 1960. She married and divorced George C. Scott twice. They had two sons, Alexander Scott and actor Campbell Scott; she co-starred with Campbell in Dying Young (1991), one of her later performances.
During the last years of her life, she lived on a farm in South Salem, New York with her partner, Ken Marsolais.
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Colleen Dewhurst's Timeline
| 1924 |
June 3, 1924
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Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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| 1961 |
July 19, 1961
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Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
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| 1991 |
August 22, 1991
Age 67
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At home, South Salem, Lewisboro, Westchester County, New York, United States
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