Colleen Dewhurst
Gender: Female
Born: 3rd June 1924
Died: 22nd August 1991
Nationality: Canada
TV programs: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Green Gables
Movies: Anne of Green Gables, When a Stranger Calls, Dying Young, Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, The Cowboys, McQ, A Fine Madness, The Last Run, As Is, The Boy Who Could Fly, Bed & Breakfast, Tribute, Termini Station, The Music School, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Broadway Theatre Archive: Burning Bright, Story of Jacob and Joseph, The Nun's Story, Annie Hall, Ice Castles, The Dead Zone, Sword of Gideon, Final Assignment, Alice in Wonderland, Danielle Steel's Kaleidoscope, Anne of Avonlea, The Good Fight, You Can't Take It with You
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." 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. She was also renowned for her television work playing Marilla Cuthbert in the Kevin Sullivan TV movie adaptations of the Anne of Green Gables series and her reprisal of the role in the subsequent TV series Road to Avonlea (marketed as just Avonlea in the US).
Dewhurst was born in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Ferdinand Augustus "Fred" and Frances Marie (née Woods) Dewhurst, a businessman and homemaker, respectively. Her father had been a "well-known athlete in Canada, where he had played
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