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Shelley Winters Biography

originally Shirley Schrift

(1920–2006)

Related Works

Films
1943 What a Woman
1947 A Double Life
1948 Cry Of The City

1949 The Great Gatsby
1950 Winchester '73
1950 Frenchie
1951 A Place In The Sun
1952 Phone Call From a Stranger
1954 Executive Suite
1955 The Big Knife
1955 The Night of the Hunter
1959 Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 The Diary Of Anne Frank
1961 The Young Savages
1962 Lolita
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told
1966 Alfie
1965 A Patch Of Blue
1966 The Moving Target
1968 The Scalphunters
1970 Bloody Mama
1972 The Poseidon Adventure
1975 That Lucky Touch 1976 The Tenant
1977 Pete's Dragon
1979 The Magician of Lublin
1979 The City On Fire
1981 S.O.B.
1983 Over The Brooklyn Bridge
1985 Déjà Vu
1986 Very Close Quarters
1988 Purple People Eater
1989 An Unremarkable Life
1990 Touch of a Stranger
1991 Stepping Out
1995 Heavy
1996 The Portrait of a Lady
1999 Gideon
Television
19916 Roseanne (role of Nana Mary)

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Film actress, born Shirley Schrift in St Louis, Missouri, USA on August 18, 1920. Shelley Winters trained as a stage actress in New York City before her film debut in What A Woman (1943), and appeared in many films before her first major role in A Double Life (1947).

She won Supporting Actress Oscars for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965). She donated her Oscar for her role in The Diary of Anne Frank to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

Later notable films include Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), S.O.B. (1981), Stepping Out (1991), and Heavy (1995).

Notable stage performances include Night of the Iguana and A Hatful of Rain.

Winters also had a memorable role from 1991-6 on the popular sitcom Roseanne, playing Nana Mary, the title character's grandmother. After an extensive career on stage, in films and television shows, she passed away on January 14, 2006 from heart failure in Los Angeles.