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Colleen Dewhurst (June 3, 1924 – August 22, 1991) was a Canadian actress whose distinguished stage career also encompassed significant work in film and television. 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. Dewhurst was raised in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, where she attended Whitefish Bay High School and the Milwaukee-Downer College. 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.
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 at her South Salem home on August 22, 1991. She was cremated and her ashes were given to family and friends.
Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Dewhurst
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