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Colleen Dewhurst

1924 - 1991

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Colleen Rose Dewhurst (June 3, 1924 – August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-American actress mostly known for theatre roles. 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 performances in Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. One of her last roles was playing Marilla Cuthbert in the Kevin Sullivan television adaptations of the Anne of Green Gables series and her reprisal of the role in the subsequent TV series Road to Avonlea. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colleen Dewhurst has received more than 2,512,139 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Colleen Dewhurst is the 3,037th most popular actor (up from 3,382nd in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 260th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Canadian Actor.

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  • 4.11

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Colleen Dewhurst ranks 3,037 out of 13,578. Before her are Flora Finch, Hilda Bernard, Park Seo-joon, Edmund Gwenn, Kim Hye-soo, and Marie Dressler. After her are Patti LuPone, Agostina Belli, Ana Martín, Manu Bennett, Leon Lai, and Shemar Moore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Colleen Dewhurst ranks 233. Before her are Dennis Weaver, Max van der Stoel, Philip Stone, Mutesa II of Buganda, Li Li-hua, and Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern. After her are Alphons Egli, Navvab Safavi, Ján Chryzostom Korec, Ruth Teitelbaum, František Vláčil, and Karen Harup. Among people deceased in 1991, Colleen Dewhurst ranks 133. Before her are Sanmao, Lea Padovani, Roy Black, Luis Miró, Yusuf Idris, and Viviane Romance. After her are Vasco Pratolini, Peggy Ashcroft, Ed Heinemann, Guy Bourdin, Northrop Frye, and Dean Jagger.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Colleen Dewhurst ranks 233 out of 1,622. Before her are Debbi Wilkes (1946), August Schellenberg (1936), John Murray (1841), William H. McNeill (1917), Mazo de la Roche (1879), and Marie Dressler (1868). After her are Gaëtan Dugas (1952), Michael Ontkean (1946), R. Murray Schafer (1933), Kim Campbell (1947), David H. Levy (1948), and Louise Penny (1958).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Colleen Dewhurst ranks 68. Before her are Sandra Oh (1971), Phil Hartman (1948), Marc Singer (1948), Josephine Crowell (1859), August Schellenberg (1936), and Marie Dressler (1868). After her are Michael Ontkean (1946), Ann Rutherford (1917), Kenneth Welsh (1942), Elias Koteas (1961), Linda Thorson (1947), and Michael Wincott (1958).

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