Colleen Dewhurst Biography:
With the same drive that had
distinguished her father's hockey career, Colleen Dewhurst took any
number of odd jobs to pay for her tuition at the American Academy of
Dramatic Arts. On Broadway from 1955, Dewhurst became one of America's
foremost interpreters of such pantheon playwrights as Eugene O'Neill and
Edward Albee; she won a 1981 Tony Award for her performance in the
revival of O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. The forceful,
deep-throated Dewhurst was not always easy to cast in films, but she
chalked up several memorable movie portrayals, not least of which was as
Diane Keaton's WASP-ish mom in Annie Hall (1977). Her TV work
included the delightful "middle aged pregnancy" comedy And
Baby Makes Six (1979) and numerous appearances as Candice Bergen's
mom on Murphy Brown. From 1985 through 1991, Colleen was
president of Actors' Equity. Twice married to actor George C. Scott,
Colleen Dewhurst is the mother of another performer, Campbell Scott. Hal
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