Colleen Dewhurst

Born: 1924-06-03 Montréal, Québec, Canada

Died: 1991-08-22

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Colleen Rose Dewhurst (June 3, 1924 — August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-American actress known 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.' Dewhurst was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O’Neill on the stage, and her career also encomp ...