Kitty Winn

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Kitty Winn (born February 21, 1944 in Washington, DC ; actually Katherine Winn ) is an American actress .

biography

Kitty Winn was born Katherine Winn in Washington, DC in 1944 . Her mother was the stepdaughter of the highly decorated American general and statesman George C. Marshall (1880-1959), who had married the widowed Katherine Brown for the second time in 1930 . Her father, a native of Fauquier County , Virginia , served in the military, and Winn often grew up with her brother Jimmy with their grandparents at Dodona Manor, Leesburg , Virginia. In the late 1960s she was accepted at William Ball's renowned American Conservatory Theater and made her debut in 1969 in a production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters as Irina alongside Michael Learned on New York's Broadway . In the early 1970s, Winn began appearing in film and television productions parallel to her theater career and this was followed by small roles in John Llewellyn Moxey's television film The House That Would Not Die (1970) and Anthony Harvey's modern Sherlock Homes variant Der verkehrte Sherlock Holmes (1971 ), in which she acted alongside well-known actors such as George C. Scott , Barbara Stanwyck and Joanne Woodward .

Her breakthrough as an actress came in 1971, when she got the female lead in Jerry Schatzberg's The Panic in Needle Park (also known in Germany under the alternative title Panik im Needle Park ). In the drama, staged with a hand-held camera , Winn mimes a young couple from New York who are addicted to drugs and drift into crime together with the then undiscovered theater mime Al Pacino . The film premiered the same year it was made at the Cannes Film Festival , where it competed for the Palme d' Or and was later praised for its authentic-looking milieu drawing and lively photography. The part of Helen, a student from the Midwest who, out of love for her boyfriend (played by Al Pacino), indulges in drug addiction and later prostitutes, brought Winn the Actor Award in Cannes, where she competed against such renowned colleagues as Julie Christie ( The mediator ) or Lee Remick (The greatest crooks far and wide) triumphed.

While the Panic in Needle Park proved to be a career springboard for Al Pacino , Kitty Winn failed to build on the success of her second film role. After the engagement as Ophelia in an off-Broadway production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1972) alongside Linda Hunt , James Earl Jones and Raúl Juliá followed a major supporting role in William Friedkins multiple Oscar- nominated horror film The Exorcist (1973), in which however, she was overshadowed by her film partners Linda Blair and Ellen Burstyn . After several supporting roles and guest appearances in film and television (including in the series The Streets of San Francisco , 1973; Kojak , 1977), she slipped back into John Boorman's sequel to Friedman's cult-revered work, Exorcist II - The Heretic (1977) the role of Sharon. A year later, Winn ended her film career at the age of 34 with the lead role in Noel Black's horror film Deadly Mirrors and henceforth devoted herself to work at the theater and her family. The thirteen feature films she appeared in between 1970 and 1978 had been almost entirely drama . Winn married Los Angeles attorney and businessman Morton Winston. A daughter emerged from the marriage.

In December 2006, the 1.64 m tall actress caught international media coverage when she sold a painting by Winston Churchill at the London auction house Sotheby’s . Her grandfather George C. Marshall received the landscape portrait "View of Tinherir", which was made in Morocco in 1951 and was considered lost for a long time, as a gift from the former British Prime Minister in 1953. An anonymous telephone operator bought it for a sum of 612,800 pounds (about 906,000 euros ), twice as high as the original pre-sale estimate.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1970: The House That Would Not Die (TV)
  • 1971: The Wrong Sherlock Holmes (They Might Be Giants)
  • 1971: The Panic in Needle Park
  • 1972: Man on a String (TV)
  • 1973: The Exorcist (The Exorcist)
  • 1975: The Wrong Sister (Peeper)
  • 1975: Miles to Go Before I Sleep (TV)
  • 1976: Most Wanted (TV)
  • 1977: Exorcist II - The Heretic (Exorcist II: The Heretic)
  • 1977: The Last Hurray (TV)
  • 1978: Deadly Mirrors

Awards

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Eugene Scheel: A General and a Gentleman, Marshall Kept Low Profile at Dodona Manor . In: The Washington Post , May 13, 2001, London Extra, p. T03
  2. ↑ cf. Robert Hurwitt: The Long Run . In: San Francisco Chronicle , Sunday Datebook, p. 18
  3. ↑ cf. Short review at filmevonabisz.de
  4. ↑ cf. Ruthe Stein: Where Are They Now? : Winn Traded Film for Family . In: The San Francisco Chronicle, Aug 1, 1999, Sunday Datebook, 33
  5. ↑ cf. Louise Jury: The work that was Churchill's best-kept secret . In: The Independent (London), Carbon Footprint, News, p. 2
  6. ↑ cf. Painting by Winston Churchill fetches 612,800 pounds (US $ 1.2 million; euro906,000) at auction , Associated Press Worldstream, International News, Dec 11, 2006, 0:20 PM GMT
personal data
SURNAME Winn, kitty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winn, Katherine (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC , United States