Colleen Dewhurst

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Colleen Rose Dewhurst June 3 1924 August 22 1991 was a CanadianAmerican actress known for a while as the Queen of OffBroadway In her autobiography Dewhurst wrote I had moved so quickly from one OffBroadway production to the next that I was known at one point as the Queen of OffBroadway 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 ONeill on the stage and her career also encompassed film early dramas on live television and Joseph Papps New York Shakespeare Festival Description above from the Wikipedia article Colleen Dewhurst licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia