Beatrice Winde

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Beatrice Winde (born January 5, 1924 in Chicago , Illinois , † January 3, 2004 in New York City , New York ; actually Beatrice Lucille Williams ) was an American actress .

Life

Beatrice Winde was born Beatrice Lucille Williams in Chicago in 1924 , where she grew up and attended school. The colored girl grew up as one of four children of Marshall Turner Williams and his wife Elizabeth (maiden name: Crawford). Her father was a hairdresser and her mother worked as a stenographer and secretary for the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).

She attended Lucy Flower High School , performed as a singer in bands and in the local church choir, and studied at the Chicago Conservatory of Music . She later studied at Yale University School of Music and won a scholarship. This enabled her to attend the renowned Juilliard School in New York . It was there that she became interested in acting. She soon appeared in plays in Chicago and won the Joseph Jefferson Prize for her performance in Horton Foote's drama The Young Man From Atlanta . When she joined the Actors' Equity Association (AEA), she had to change her name as it was already in use. She then appeared under the stage name Beatrice Winde.

From the early 1960s, Winde worked on the New York stage. The actress made her Broadway debut in 1971 with Gilbert Moses ' musical Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death at the Ethel Barrymore Theater . The production brought it over ten months to more than 300 performances and winds received the Theater World Award and a nomination for a Tony Award as Best Supporting Actress . In parallel with her theater career, she made her television debut in 1974 with a supporting role in John Korty's award-winning drama The Story of Jane Pittman . A year later she made her cinema debut in Joseph Sargent's action film Stop the Death Ride of the U-Bahn 123 alongside Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw . This was to be followed by over thirty other film and television roles by 2001, almost exclusively supporting roles. She has made guest appearances in well-known series such as The Bill Cosby Show (1992), New York Cops - NYPD Blue (1995), Law & Order (1991, 1992, 1994 and 2001) and The Sopranos (2000).

Beatrice Winde was married to her fellow actor Raymound Stough. The marriage ended in divorce. The actress died of cancer in 2004 just days before her 80th birthday. In 1997 she received a Living Legend Award from the National Black Theater in recognition of her work .

Plays

Actor (selection)

  • 1963: In White America (Off-Broadway)
  • 1971/72: Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death (Broadway)
  • 1987: Richard II (Off-Broadway)
  • 1987: One Two Three Four Five (Off-Broadway)
  • 1990: The American Plan (Off-Broadway)
  • 1994: Night Seasons (Off-Broadway)
  • 1995: The Young Man from Atlanta (Off-Broadway)
  • 1997: The Young Man from Atlanta (Broadway)
  • 2000: A Lesson Before Dying (Off-Broadway)

Director

  • 1984: Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death (Chicago, Creative Arts Foundation)

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1972: Theater World Award for Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
  • 1972: nominated for the Tony Award as Best Supporting Actress for Is not Supposed to Die a Natural Death
  • 1991: Nomination for the Soap Opera Digest Award for Springfield Story
  • 1997: Living Legend Award from the National Black Theater

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Warner Rotzoll, Brenda: Beatrice Winde . In: Chicago Sun-Times , February 26, 2004, p. 80
  2. ↑ a b cf. Saxon, Wolfgang: Beatrice Winde, Actress in Film, TV and the Theater, Dies at 79 . In: The New York Times , Jan 25, 2004, p. 39
  3. ↑ cf. Biography of Beatrice Winde in the All Movie Guide (English)
personal data
SURNAME Winds, Beatrice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Beatrice Lucille (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2004
Place of death New York City , New York