Kitty Winn

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Kitty Michelle Winn (born February 21, 1944) is an American actress.

Winn was born in Washington, D.C. She spent much of her childhood time traveling to China, India and Japan. She made her Broadway debut in 1969 in The Three Sisters, and won Best Actress at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for her role opposite Al Pacino in The Panic in Needle Park. She also starred in New York's Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet.

She is perhaps best known for her role as Sharon in the Academy Award winning motion picture The Exorcist, and again in Exorcist II: The Heretic. Her last film was Mirrors in 1978, in which she took the lead role of Marriane, who has been cursed. In the late 1970s, she was an Artist-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Awards

Cannes Film Festival

Trivia

• Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1971" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 33.
• Turned down the role of Connie Corleone Rizzi in The Godfather (1972)
• Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1976
• Her performance as Helen in The Panic in Needle Park (1971) is ranked #76 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
• Had lead role as Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979), but turned it down. The lead went to Sigourney Weaver.
• Step-granddaughter of General of the Army and Secretary of State George C. Marshall.

External links

• Kitty Winn at the Internet Movie Database
• Where are they now? article by the San Francisco Chronicle