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Colleen Dewhurst (born June 3, 1924; died August
22, 1991) was a Canada|Canadian-born actress best
known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various
Anne of Green Gables productions from Sullivan
Entertainment. 

Born an only child to a football player turned
businessman and his homemaker wife in Montreal,
Quebec, but raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 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. She interpreted many roles in
O'Neill plays.  

Over the course of her 45 year career, Dewhurst
won two Tony Awards, two Obies and two Gemini
Awards. As well, in 1989, she won the Genie Award
for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting
Role for her role in Hitting Home. Nominated for
an Emmy Award on twelve occasions, she won four: 
*1988 & 1991  : "Outstanding Guest Actress in a
Comedy Series" for Murphy Brown
* 1989 : "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Miniseries or a Special" for Those She Left Behind
* 1986 : "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Miniseries or a Special" for Between Two Women

During the last years of her life, she lived on a
farm in South Salem, New York with a summer home
on Prince Edward Island, Canada. 

She was president of the Actors' Equity
Association from 1985 until her 1991 death from
cervical cancer at the age of 67, which might have
been cured but for Dewhurst's Christian Science
beliefs and her refusal to countenance any kind of
surgical treatment.  

Dewhurst was married to James Vickery from 1947 to
1960, and to actor George C. Scott twice for a
total of approximately 10 years, both times
resulting in divorce; she was the mother of 2
sons, including actor Campbell Scott.

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