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Name: Shelley Winters  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 18th August 1920
   
Place of Birth: East St. Louis, Illinois, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
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Winters in Cry of the City (1948)

Shelley Winters (born August 18, 1920) is an American actress.

Born Shirley Schrift to Jewish parents - Jonas Schrift (an immigrant) and Rose Winter (who was born in America) - in East St. Louis, Illinois. She is known to today's audiences as a large figure of comedians' scathing humor (especially for her obesity in the film The Poseidon Adventure), but when she began her career, she was known as a voluptuous beauty. Also, she has lost a lot of weight since the early 1990s. She is said to have had an affair with Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of President John F. Kennedy, as well as with many Hollywood-based attractive men, including the late actor William Holden, with whom she kept her yearly rendezvous, and of whom she wrote in her autobiography.

Her first movie was What a Woman! in 1943. By 1959, she had won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue in 1965. Notable later roles included her turn as the once gorgeous, alcoholic former starlet "Fay Estabrook" in Harper (1966) and in The Poseidon Adventure (1972) as the ill-fated "Mrs. Emmanuel Rosen", for which she received her final Oscar nomination. In a recurring role in the early 1990s, Winters played the title character's grandmother on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, which had the bizarre effect of making her play Estelle Parsons' (who played Roseanne's mother) mother, although Parsons is only 7 years younger, and looks about the same age as Winters.

The 85 year-old actress is currently making a strong recovery in a southern California hospital, after suffering a heart attack on October 14, 2005.

Academy Awards and nominations

  • 1973 - Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Poseidon Adventure
  • 1966 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - A Patch of Blue
  • 1960 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Diary of Anne Frank
  • 1952 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - A Place in the Sun

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1750 Vine Street.

Filmography

  • What a Woman! (1943)
  • The Racket Man (1944)
  • Sailor's Holiday (1944)
  • Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
  • Cover Girl (1944)
  • She's a Soldier Too (1944)
  • Together Again (1944)
  • Tonight and Every Night (1945)
  • Dancing in Manhattan (1945)
  • Escape in the Fog (1945)
  • A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
  • The Fighting Guardsman (1946)
  • Two Smart People (1946)
  • New Orleans (1947)
  • Living in a Big Way (1947)
  • The Gangster (1947)
  • A Double Life (1947)
  • Killer McCoy (1947)
  • Red River (1948)
  • Larceny (1948)
  • Cry of the City (1948)
  • South Sea Sinner (1949)
  • Take One False Step (1949)
  • The Great Gatsby (1949)
  • Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
  • Winchester '73 (1950)
  • Frenchie (1950)
  • The Raging Tide (1951)
  • He Ran All the Way (1951)
  • A Place in the Sun (1951)
  • Behave Yourself! (1951)
  • Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
  • Meet Danny Wilson (1952)
  • Untamed Frontier (1952)
  • My Man and I (1952)
  • Cash on Delivery (1954)
  • Tennessee Champ (1954)
  • Saskatchewan (1954)
  • Playgirl (1954)
  • Executive Suite (1954)
  • Mambo (1954)
  • I Am a Camera (1955)
  • The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  • The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
  • The Big Knife (1955)
  • I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
  • The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
  • Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
  • Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
  • The Young Savages (1961)
  • Lolita (1962)
  • The Chapman Report (1962)
  • The Balcony (1963)
  • Wives and Lovers (1963)
  • Time of Indifference (1964)
  • A House Is Not a Home (1964)
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
  • A Patch of Blue (1965)
  • The Three Sisters (1966)
  • Harper (1966)
  • Alfie (1966)
  • Enter Laughing (1967)
  • The Scalphunters (1968)
  • Wild in the Streets (1968)
  • Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
  • Arthur! Arthur! (1969)
  • The Mad Room (1969)
  • Bloody Mama (1970)
  • How Do I Love Thee? (1970)
  • Flap (1970)
  • Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
  • What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
  • Something to Hide (1972)
  • The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
  • Blume in Love (1973)
  • Cleopatra Jones (1973)
  • Poor Pretty Eddy (1975)
  • Journey Into Fear (1975)
  • Diamonds (1975)
  • That Lucky Touch (1975)
  • The Scarlet Dahila (1976)
  • Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
  • The Tenant (1976)
  • Mimi Bluette... Flower of My Garden (1977)
  • Black Journal (1977)
  • Tentacles (1977)
  • An Average Little Man (1977)
  • Pete's Dragon (1977)
  • King of the Gypsies (1978)
  • The Visitor (1979)
  • City on Fire (1979)
  • The Magician of Lublin (1979)
  • S.O.B. (1981)
  • Looping (1981)
  • Fanny Hill (1983)
  • Ellie (1984)
  • Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)
  • Deja Vu (1985)
  • Witchfire (1986)
  • Very Close Quarters (1986)
  • The Delta Force (1986)
  • Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987) (documentary)
  • Purple People Eater (1988)
  • An Unremarkable Life (1989)
  • Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990) (documentary)
  • Touch of a Stranger (1990)
  • Stepping Out (1991)
  • The Pickle (1993)
  • A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
  • The Silence of the Hams (1994)
  • Heavy (1995)
  • Backfire! (1995)
  • Jury Duty (1995)
  • Mrs. Munck (1995)
  • Raging Angels (1995)
  • The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
  • Gideon (1999)
  • La Bomba (1999)
  • A-List (2004) (Cameo)

TV Work

  • Wipe-Out (1963)
  • A Death of Innocence (1971)
  • Adventures of Nick Carter (1972)
  • The Devil's Daughter (1973)
  • Big Rose: Double Trouble (1974)
  • The Sex Symbol (1974)
  • Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976) (voice)
  • The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
  • Elvis (1979)
  • Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979) (voice)
  • The French Atlantic Affair (1979) (miniseries)
  • Emma and Grandpa on the Farm (1983) (narrator)
  • Alice in Wonderland (1985)
  • Weep No More, My Lady (1992)

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