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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 2,333,045 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Colleen Dewhurst is the 3,387th most popular actor (down from 3,063rd in 2019), the 260th most popular biography from Canada (down from 243rd in 2019) and the 77th most popular Canadian Actor.

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  • 26

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  • 2.15

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  • 4.23

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Colleen Dewhurst ranks 3,387 out of 9,996Before her are Beah Richards, Clive Revill, Kathryn Adams, Rupert Graves, Kai, and Barry Dennen. After her are Michael Wincott, Zach Braff, Ed Helms, Rosario Dawson, Alain Souchon, and Elina Bystritskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Colleen Dewhurst ranks 253Before her are Aleksandar Tišma, Ruth Teitelbaum, María Dolores Pradera, Martha Hyer, Olga Gyarmati, and John Love. After her are Rafael Iglesias, Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, Alberto Uria, Anthony Caro, Claribel Alegría, and Karen Harup. Among people deceased in 1991, Colleen Dewhurst ranks 136Before her are Peggy Ashcroft, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Luis Miró, Anton Yugov, Yusuf Idris, and György Szűcs. After her are Elisaveta Bagriana, Robert Motherwell, Jean Langlais, Nutan, Gene Clark, and Boris Papandopulo.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Colleen Dewhurst ranks 260 out of 1,350Before her are Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879), Stephen McHattie (1946), Viola Desmond (1914), Stana Katic (1978), Michael Ontkean (1946), and James LaBrie (1963). After her are Patricia Churchland (1943), Michael Wincott (1958), Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661), Michael Ignatieff (1947), Garou (1972), and Paul Bley (1932).

Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Colleen Dewhurst ranks 77Before her are Natasha Henstridge (1974), Elias Koteas (1961), Lance Kinsey (1954), Stephen McHattie (1946), Stana Katic (1978), and Michael Ontkean (1946). After her are Michael Wincott (1958), Lothaire Bluteau (1957), Henry Czerny (1959), August Schellenberg (1936), John Vernon (1932), and Tricia Helfer (1974).

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