Editing Colleen Dewhurst

{{short description|Canadian-American actress (1924–1991)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Colleen Dewhurst
| image              = Colleen Dewhurst.JPG
| caption            = Colleen Dewhurst in ''The Trial of Susan B. Anthony'' (1971)
| birth_name         = Colleen Rose Dewhurst
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1924|6|3|mf=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], [[Canada]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1991|8|22|1924|6|3|mf=y}}
| death_place        = [[South Salem, New York]], U.S.
| occupation         = Actress
| years active       = 1952–1991
| spouse             = {{ubl
  | {{marriage|James Vickery|1947|1960|end=div}}
  | {{marriage|[[George C. Scott]]|1960|1965|end=div}}
  | {{marriage||1967|1972|end=div}}
  }}
| partner            = Ken Marsolais (1975–1991; her death)
| children           = 2, including [[Campbell Scott]]
| awards             = {{ubl | 2 [[Tony Awards]] | 4 [[Emmy Awards]] }}
| module2            = {{infobox officeholder |embed=yes
| office       = 11th [[President (corporate title)|President]] of the [[Actors' Equity Association]]
| term_start   = 1985
| term_end     = 1991 (died in the office)
| predecessor  = [[Ellen Burstyn]]
| successor    = [[Ron Silver]]
}}
}}

'''Colleen Rose Dewhurst''' (June 3, 1924 – August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-American actress mostly known for theatre roles. She was a renowned interpreter of the works of [[Eugene O'Neill]] on the stage, and her career also encompassed film, early dramas on live television, and performances in [[Joseph Papp]]'s [[New York Shakespeare Festival]]. One of her last roles was playing Marilla Cuthbert in the [[Kevin Sullivan (producer)|Kevin Sullivan]] television adaptations of the [[Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)|''Anne of Green Gables'' series]] and her reprisal of the role in the subsequent TV series ''[[Road to Avonlea]]''. In the United States, Dewhurst won two [[Tony Awards]] and four [[Primetime Emmy Awards]] for her stage and television work. In addition to other Canadian honors over the years, Dewhurst won two [[Gemini Awards]] (the former Canadian equivalent of an Emmy Award) for her portrayal of Marilla Cuthbert; once in 1986 and again in 1988. It is arguably her best known role because of the [[Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)|Sullivan-produced series']] continuing popularity and also the initial co-production by the [[CBC Television|CBC]]; allowing for rebroadcasts over the years on it, and also on [[PBS]] in the United States. The initial broadcast alone was seen by millions of viewers.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/anne-of-green-gables-tv-phenomenon| title = CBC Archives}}</ref>

Dewhurst was a co-founder of the Writers and Artists for Peace in the Middle East, a pro-Israel group.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gop Platform Committee Urged to Give Support to Israel |url=https://www.jta.org/archive/gop-platform-committee-urged-to-give-support-to-israel |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>Considine, p. 299</ref> 

==Early life==
Dewhurst was born June 3, 1924, in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Frances Marie (nee Woods) and Ferdinand Augustus "Fred" Dewhurst. Fred Dewhurst was the owner of a chain of [[confectionery]] stores and had been a celebrated athlete in Canada, where he had played football with the [[Ottawa Rough Riders]].<ref>[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jmbhome/colleendewhurst.htm Colleen Dewhurst genealogy]</ref> The family became naturalized as U.S. citizens before 1940. Colleen Dewhurst's mother was a [[Christian Science|Christian Scientist]], a faith Colleen also embraced.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911043,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222050852/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911043,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 22, 2008|magazine=Time|title=Show Business: Gorgeous Gael|date=January 21, 1974|access-date=April 30, 2010}}</ref>

The Dewhursts moved to Massachusetts in 1928 or 1929, staying in the Boston area neighborhoods of Dorchester, Auburndale, and West Newton. Later they moved to New York City and then to [[Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin]]. Dewhurst attended [[Whitefish Bay High School]] for her first two years of high school, moved to [[Shorewood High School (Wisconsin)|Shorewood High School]] for her junior year, and graduated from [[Riverside University High School|Riverside High School]] in Milwaukee in 1942. About this time her parents separated. Dewhurst attended [[Milwaukee-Downer College]] for two years, then moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.<ref>[https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800017656/bio Colleen Dewhurst profile], Yahoo! Movies; accessed February 8, 2014.</ref>

==Career==
One of her more significant stage roles was in the 1974 Broadway revival of O'Neill's ''[[A Moon for the Misbegotten]]'' as Josie Hogan, for which she won a Tony Award. She previously won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in 1961 for ''[[All the Way Home (play)|All the Way Home]]''. She later played Katharina in a 1956 production of ''[[Taming of the Shrew]]'' for [[Joseph Papp]]. She (as recounted in her posthumous obituary in collaboration with Tom Viola) wrote:
<blockquote>With Brooks Atkinson's blessing, our world changed overnight. Suddenly in our audience of neighbors in T-shirts and jeans appeared men in white shirts, jackets and ties and ladies in summer dresses. We were in a hit that would have a positive effect on my career, as well as Joe's, but I missed the shouting.<ref name="autob"/></blockquote>

She played Shakespeare's [[Antony and Cleopatra|Cleopatra]] and [[Lady Macbeth]] for Papp and years later, Gertrude in a production of ''[[Hamlet]]'' at the [[Delacorte Theater|Delacorte Theatre]] in Central Park.

She appeared in the ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' episode ''Night Fever'' in 1965 and with [[Ingrid Bergman]] in ''[[More Stately Mansions]]'' on Broadway in 1967. José Quintero directed her in O'Neill's ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'' and ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]''. She appeared in [[Edward Albee]]'s adaptation of [[Carson McCullers]]' ''[[Ballad of the Sad Cafe]]'' and as Martha in a Broadway revival of ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'', with [[Ben Gazzara]] which Albee directed.

[[Image:Barbara Stanwyck Colleen Dewhurst The Big Valley.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Dewhurst (right) guest starring on ''[[The Big Valley]]'' in 1966 with [[Barbara Stanwyck]] (left) and [[Michael Burns (actor)|Michael Burns]]]]

She appeared in 1962 as Joanne Novak in the episode "I Don't Belong in a White-Painted House" in the medical drama ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', starring [[Wendell Corey]] and [[Jack Ging]]. Dewhurst appeared opposite her then husband, Scott, in a 1971 television adaptation of [[Arthur Miller]]'s ''[[The Price (play)|The Price]]'', on ''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'', and an anthology series. There is another television recording of them together when she played Elizabeth Proctor to the unfaithful John in Miller's ''[[The Crucible]]'' (with [[Tuesday Weld]]). In 1977, [[Woody Allen]] cast her in his film ''[[Annie Hall]]'' as Annie's mother.

In her autobiography, Dewhurst wrote: "I had moved so quickly from one Off-Broadway production to the next that I was known, at one point, as the 'Queen of [[Off-Broadway]]'. This title was not due to my brilliance, but, rather, because most of the plays I was in closed after a run of anywhere from one night to two weeks. I would then move immediately into another."<ref name="autob"/>

In 1972, she played a madam, Mrs. Kate Collingwood, in ''[[The Cowboys]]'' (1972), which starred [[John Wayne]]. Dewhurst also appeared with Wayne in the 1974 film ''[[McQ]]''. She was the first actress to share a love scene with Wayne in bed. In 1985, she played the role of Marilla Cuthbert in Kevin Sullivan's adaptation of [[Lucy Maud Montgomery]]'s novel ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' and reprised the role in 1987's ''[[Anne of Avonlea (1987 film)|Anne of Avonlea]]'' (also known as ''Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel'') and in several episodes of Kevin Sullivan's ''[[Road to Avonlea]]''.

Dewhurst was on hiatus from ''Road to Avonlea'' when she died in 1991. Sullivan Productions was unaware she was terminally ill, so her portrayal of Marilla ended posthumously. This was accomplished by shooting new scenes with actress [[Patricia Hamilton]] acting as a body double for Dewhurst and by recycling parts of scenes from ''Anne of Green Gables'', ''Road to Avonlea'', and using Dewhurst's death scene as Hepzibah in Sullivan's production of ''[[Lantern Hill (film)|Lantern Hill]]''. The latter was a 1990 television film based on L.M. Montgomery's ''[[Jane of Lantern Hill]]''.

During 1989 and 1990, she appeared in a supporting role on the television series ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' playing Avery Brown, the feisty mother of [[Candice Bergen]]'s title character; this role earned her two Emmy Awards, the second being awarded posthumously. Dewhurst won a total of two Tony Awards and four Emmy Awards for her stage and television work. Season 4, Episode 6 entitled "Full Circle" was the Murphy Brown episode filmed shortly after her death and dedicated to her memory.

In a review of Dewhurst's final film role as Ruth in ''Bed and Breakfast'' (1991), Emanuel Levy wrote “''Bed and Breakfast'' is the kind of small, intimate picture that actors revere. The stunningly sensual Dewhurst, in one of her last screen roles, dominates every scene she is in, making the lusty and down-to-earth Ruth at once credible and enchanting.“

Dewhurst was president of the [[Actors' Equity Association]] from 1985 until her death. She was the first national president to die in the office.

==Personal life and final years==
[[File:HarrisHouse FortuneBridgePE Wide.jpg|thumb|right|Dewhurst's summer home at Fortune Bridge, Prince Edward Island, was built by the playwright [[Elmer Blaney Harris]]. It is a private inn as of August 2008.]]

Colleen Dewhurst was married to James Vickery from 1947 to 1960. She married and divorced [[George C. Scott]] twice. They had two sons, Alexander Scott and actor [[Campbell Scott]]; she co-starred with Campbell in ''[[Dying Young]]'' (1991), one of her last film roles as she died in August 1991.{{Citation needed |date=January 2022}}

During the last years of her life she lived on a farm in South Salem, New York, with her partner Ken Marsolais. They also had a summer home on Prince Edward Island, Canada.{{Citation needed |date=January 2022}}

[[Maureen Stapleton]] wrote about Dewhurst:
<blockquote>Colleen looked like a warrior, so people assumed she was the earth mother. But in real life Colleen was not to be let out without a keeper. She couldn't stop herself from taking care of people, which she then did with more care than she took care of herself. Her generosity of spirit was overwhelming and her smile so dazzling that you couldn't pull the&nbsp;... reins in on her even if you desperately wanted to and knew damn well that somebody should.<ref name=autob>Dewhurst, Colleen; Viola, Tom (1997). ''Colleen Dewhurst – Her Autobiography''. [[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]; {{ISBN|978-0-684-80701-0}}</ref></blockquote>

Dewhurst's Christian Science beliefs<ref>Susan Ware (editor), ''Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century'', Volume 5, pages 174-175 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2004). {{ISBN|9780674014886}}</ref> led to her refusal to accept any kind of surgical treatment. She died of cervical cancer at the age 67 at her South Salem home in 1991. She was cremated and her ashes were given to family and friends; no public service was planned.{{Citation needed |date=January 2022}}

==Filmography==
===Films and television films===
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
|- 
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1959
| data-sort-value="Nun's Story, The" | ''[[The Nun's Story (film)|The Nun's Story]]''
|Archangel Gabriel
|
|-
|1960
|''[[Man on a String]]''
|Helen Benson
|
|-
|1961
| data-sort-value="Foxes, The" | ''The Foxes''
|
|rowspan=2|television film
|-
|1962
|''Focus''
|
|-
|1966
|data-sort-value="Fine Madness, A" | ''[[A Fine Madness]]''
|Dr. Vera Kropotkin
|
|-
|1967
|data-sort-value="Crucible, The" | ''The Crucible''
|Elizabeth Proctor
|television film (adaptation of the play ''[[The Crucible]]'')
|-
|rowspan=2|1971
|data-sort-value="Price, The" | ''[[The Price (1971 film)|The Price]]''
|Esther Franz
|television film
|-
| data-sort-value="Last Run, The" | ''[[The Last Run]]''
|Monique
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1972
| data-sort-value="Cowboys, The" | ''[[The Cowboys]]''
|Kate Collingwood
|
|-
| data-sort-value="Hands of Cormac Joyce, The" | ''[[The Hands of Cormac Joyce]]''
|Molly Joyce
|rowspan=4|television film
|-
|1973
|''Legend in Granite''
|Marie Lombardi
|-
|rowspan=4|1974
|''[[The American Short Story|Parker Addison, Philosopher]]''
|rowspan=2|Hostess
|-
|data-sort-value="Music School, The" | ''[[The American Short Story|The Music School]]''
|-
|''[[McQ]]''
|Myra
|
|-
|data-sort-value="Story of Jacob and Joseph, The" | ''[[The Story of Jacob and Joseph]]''
|[[Rebecca|Rebekah]]
|television film
|-
|1975
|data-sort-value="Moon for the Misbegotten, A" | ''A Moon for the Misbegotten''
|Josie Hogan
|television film (adaptation of the play ''[[A Moon for the Misbegotten]]'')
|-
|1977
|''[[Annie Hall]]''
|Mrs. Hall
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1978
| data-sort-value="Third Walker, The" | ''[[The Third Walker]]''
|Kate Maclean
|
|-
|''[[Ice Castles]]''
|Beulah Smith
|
|-
|rowspan=4|1979
|''[[Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story]]''
|Patsy O'Neil
|television film
|-
|''[[When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)|When a Stranger Calls]]''
|Tracy Fuller
|
|-
|''And Baby Makes Six''
|Anna Kramer
|rowspan=4|television film
|-
|''Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith''
|[[Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist|Elizabeth]]
|-
|rowspan=8|1980
|''Death Penalty''
|Elaine Lipton
|-
|''Escape''
|Lily Levinson
|-
|''[[Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones]]''
|Myrtle Kennedy
|miniseries
|-
|data-sort-value="Women's Room, The" | ''[[The Women's Room (film)|The Women's Room]]''
|Val
|television film (based on the book ''[[The Women's Room]]'')
|-
| data-sort-value="Perfect Match, A" | ''A Perfect Match''
|Meg Larson
|rowspan=2|television film
|-
|''Baby Comes Home''
|Anna Kramer
|-
|''[[Final Assignment]]''
|Dr. Valentine Ulanova
|
|-
|''[[Tribute (1980 film)|Tribute]]''
|Gladys Petrelli
|
|-
|1981
|data-sort-value="Few Days in Weasel Creek, A" | ''A Few Days in Weasel Creek''
|Cora Jackfield
|television film
|-
|rowspan=2|1982
|''Split Cherry Tree''
|Mrs. Sexton
|
|-
|''Between Two Brothers''
|
|rowspan=2|television film
|-
|rowspan=2|1983
|''Sometimes I Wonder''
|Grandma
|-
|data-sort-value="Dead Zone, The" | ''[[The Dead Zone (film)|The Dead Zone]]''
|Henrietta Dodd
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1984
|''You Can't Take It with You''
|Grand Duchess Olga Katrina
|television film (adaptation of the play ''[[You Can't Take It with You (play)|You Can't Take It with You]]'')
|-
|data-sort-value="Glitter Dome, The" | ''[[The Glitter Dome]]''
|Lorna Dillman
|rowspan=5|television film
|-
|1985
|''[[Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)|Anne of Green Gables]]''
|Marilla Cuthbert
|-
|rowspan=5|1986
|''[[Between Two Women (1986 film)|Between Two Women]]''
|Barbara Petherton
|-
|''Johnny Bull''
|Marie Kovacs
|-
|''[[As Is (film)|As Is]]''
|Hospice Worker
|-
|data-sort-value="Boy Who Could Fly, The" | ''[[The Boy Who Could Fly]]''
|Carolyn Sherman
|
|-
|''[[Sword of Gideon]]''
|[[Golda Meir]]
|rowspan=4|television film
|-
|rowspan=3|1987
|''[[Hitting Home (film)|Hitting Home]]''
|Judge
|-
|''Bigfoot''
|Gladys Samco
|-
|''[[Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel]]''
|Marilla Cuthbert
|-
|1988
|''Woman in the Wind''
|
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1989
|''[[Those She Left Behind]]''
|Margaret Page
|television film
|-
|''[[Termini Station (film)|Termini Station]]''
|Molly Dushane
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1990
|data-sort-value="Exorcist III, The" | ''[[The Exorcist III]]''
|[[Pazuzu (The Exorcist)|Pazuzu]]
|Voice, Uncredited
|-
|''[[Kaleidoscope (1990 film)|Kaleidoscope]]''
|Margaret Gorham
|rowspan=2|television film
|-
|''[[Lantern Hill (film)|Lantern Hill]]''
|Elizabeth
|-
|rowspan=2|1991
|''[[Dying Young]]''
|Estelle Whittier
|
|-
|''[[Bed & Breakfast (1992 film)|Bed & Breakfast]]''
|Ruth Wellesly
|final film role
|-
|}

===Television work (excluding television films)===
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
|- 
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1957
|''[[Studio One (U.S. TV series)|Studio One]]''
|
|teleplay: ''First Prize for Murder''
|-
|rowspan=3|1958
|''[[Kraft Television Theatre]]''
|
|teleplay: ''Presumption of Innocence''
|-
|''[[Decoy (TV series)|Decoy]]''
|Taffy
|episode: "Deadly Corridor"
|-
|rowspan=2|''[[DuPont Show of the Month]]''
|
|teleplay: ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo (1958 film)|The Count of Monte Cristo]]''
|-
|rowspan=3|1959
|Aldonza Lorenzo/[[Dulcinea del Toboso]]
|teleplay: ''[[I, Don Quixote]]''
|-
|data-sort-value="Play of the Week, The" | ''[[The Play of the Week|Play of the Week]]''
|Mordeen Saul / Woman
|teleplays: ''[[Burning Bright]]''; ''[[Medea (play)|Medea]]''
|-
|data-sort-value="United States Steel Hour, The" | ''[[The United States Steel Hour]]''
|Vera Brandon
|teleplay: ''The Hours Before Dawn''
|-
|rowspan=2|1961
|data-sort-value="Play of the Week, The" | ''[[The Play of the Week|Play of the Week]]''
|Inèz Serrano
|teleplays: ''[[No Exit]]''; ''The Indifferent Lover''
|-
|''[[Ben Casey]]''
|Phyllis Anders
|episode: "I Remember a Lemon Tree"
|-
|rowspan=3|1962
|data-sort-value="Eleventh Hour, The" | ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]''
|Joanne Novak
|episode: "I Don't Belong in a White-Painted House"
|-
|data-sort-value="Virginian, The" | ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]''
|Celia Ames
|episode: "The Executioners"
|-
|data-sort-value="Nurses, The" | ''[[The Nurses (CBS TV series)|The Nurses]]''
|Grace Milo
|episode: "Fly, Shadow"
|-
|rowspan=2|1963
|data-sort-value="United States Steel Hour, The" | ''[[The United States Steel Hour]]''
|Francie Broderick
|teleplay: ''Night Run to the West''
|-
|''[[DuPont Show of the Month]]''
|Karen Holt
|teleplay: ''Something to Hide''
|-
|1964
|''[[East Side/West Side]]''
|Shirley
|episode: "Nothing but the Half Truth"
|-
|rowspan=2|1965
|''[[Dr. Kildare (TV series)|Dr. Kildare]]''
|Eleanor Markham
|episode: "All Brides Should Be Beautiful"
|-
|data-sort-value="Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The" | ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents|The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]''
|Nurse Ellen Hatch
|episode: "Night Fever"
|-
|rowspan=2|1966
|data-sort-value="F.B.I., The" | ''[[The F.B.I. (TV series)|The F.B.I.]]''
|Amy Doucette
|episode: "The Baby Sitter"
|-
|data-sort-value="Big Valley, The" | ''[[The Big Valley]]''
|Annie Morton
|episode: "A Day of Terror"
|-
|rowspan=2|1971
|''[[ITV Sunday Night Theatre]]''
|rowspan=2|Esther Franz
|rowspan=2|teleplay: ''[[The Price (play)|The Price]]''
|-
|rowspan=2|''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]''
|-
|1972
|Molly Joyce
|teleplay: ''[[The Hands of Cormac Joyce]]''
|-
|1973
|''[[ABC's Wide World of Entertainment|Wide World Mystery]]''
|Margery Landing
|episode: "A Prowler in the Heart"
|-
|1979
|''[[Studs Lonigan#Studs Lonigan in film and television|Studs Lonigan]]''
|Mary Lonigan
|miniseries
|-
|rowspan=2|1982
|''[[Quincy, M.E.]]''
|Dr. Barbara Ludow
|episode: "For Love of Joshua"
|-
|data-sort-value="Blue and the Gray, The" | ''[[The Blue and the Gray (miniseries)|The Blue and the Gray]]''
|Maggie Geyser
|miniseries
|-
|1983
|''[[Great Performances]]''
|[[Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass)|Red Queen]]
|teleplay: ''[[Alice in Wonderland#Cinematic, television and game adaptations|Alice in Wonderland]]''
|-
|rowspan=2|1984
|''[[Finder of Lost Loves]]''
|Rachel Green
|episode: "Echoes"
|-
|data-sort-value="Love Boat, The" | ''[[The Love Boat]]''
|Maud
|episode: "Welcome Aboard: Part 1 and 2"
|-
|1985
|''[[A.D. (miniseries)|A.D.]]''
|[[Antonia Minor]]
|miniseries
|-
|1988
|data-sort-value="Twilight Zone, The" | ''[[The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''
|Hallie Parker
|episode: "[[There Was an Old Woman (The Twilight Zone)|There Was an Old Woman]]"
|-
|1989
|''[[Moonlighting (TV series)|Moonlighting]]''
|Betty Russell
|episode: "Take My Wife, for Example"
|-
|1989–1990
|''[[Murphy Brown]]''
|Avery Brown Sr.
|3 episodes:<br>-"Brown Like Me: Part 1 and Part II" (1989)<br>-"Mama Said" (1989)<br>-"Bob & Murphy & Ted & Avery (1990) 
|-
|1990–1992
|''[[Road to Avonlea]]''
|Marilla Cuthbert
|4 episodes: "Of Corsets and Secrets and True, True Love", "The Materializing of Duncan McTavish", <br> "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's" and "Old Friends New Wounds (Marilla's Death)"
|}

===Theatre===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
|- 
! Year
! Play
! Role
|-
|1952
|''[[Desire Under the Elms]]''
|Neighbor
|-
|1956
|''[[Tamburlaine|Tamburlaine the Great]]''
|Virgin of Memphis / Turkish Concubine
|-
|1957–1958
|data-sort-value="Country Wife, The" | ''[[The Country Wife]]''
|Mrs. Squeamish
|-
|1960
|''[[Caligula (play)|Caligula]]''
|[[Milonia Caesonia]]
|-
|1960–1961
|''[[All the Way Home (play)|All the Way Home]]''
|Mary Follet
|-
|1962
|''[[Great Day in the Morning (play)|Great Day in the Morning]]''
|Phoebe Flaherty
|-
|1963–1964
|data-sort-value="Ballad of the Sad Café, The" | ''[[The Ballad of the Sad Café (play)|The Ballad of the Sad Café]]''
|Miss Amelia Evans
|-
|1967–1968
|''[[More Stately Mansions]]''
|Sara Melody
|-
|1970
|data-sort-value="Good Woman of Setzuan, The" | ''[[The Good Person of Szechwan|The Good Woman of Setzuan]]''
|Shen Te
|-
|1971
|''[[All Over]]''
|The Mistress
|-
|1972
|''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]''
|Christine Mannon
|-
|1973–1974
|data-sort-value="Moon for the Misbegotten, A" | ''[[A Moon for the Misbegotten]]''
|Josie Hogan
|-
|1976
|''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''
|Martha
|-
|1977–1978
|''An Almost Perfect Person''
|Irene Porter
|-
|1982
|data-sort-value="Queen and the Rebels, The" | ''The Queen and the Rebels''
|Argia
|-
|1983–1984
|''[[You Can't Take It with You (play)|You Can't Take It with You]]''
|Grand Duchess Olga Katrina
|-
|rowspan=2|1982
|''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]''
|Mary Cavan Tyrone
|-
|''[[Ah, Wilderness!]]''
|Essie Miller
|-
|1989–1990
|''[[Love Letters (play)|Love Letters]]''
|Melissa Gardner
|}

==Awards and nominations==
===[[American Theater Hall of Fame]]===
{| class=wikitable
|-
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| 1981
| [[American Theater Hall of Fame]]
| {{n/a}}
| {{Won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theaterhalloffame.org/members.html |title=Theater Hall of Fame Members |publisher=[[American Theater Hall of Fame]] |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/03/theater/26-elected-theater-hall-fame-26-broadway-voted-into-theater-hall-fame.html ''The New York Times'', March 3, 1981 - ''26 Elected to the Theater Hall of Fame'']</ref>
|}

===[[CableACE Award]]s===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| 1988
| rowspan="2"| Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries
| ''[[Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| 1991
| ''[[Lantern Hill (film)|Lantern Hill]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| 1992
| Actress in a Dramatic Series
| ''[[Road to Avonlea]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|}

===[[Drama Desk Award]]s===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| 1970
| rowspan="4"| Outstanding Performance
| ''[[Hello and Goodbye (play)|Hello and Goodbye]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1970-awards/ |title=Nominees and Recipients – 1970 Awards |publisher=[[Drama Desk Award]]s |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| 1971
| ''[[All Over]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1971-awards/ |title=Nominees and Recipients – 1971 Awards |publisher=[[Drama Desk Award]]s |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| 1973
| ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1973-awards/ |title=Nominees and Recipients – 1973 Awards |publisher=[[Drama Desk Award]]s |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| 1974
| ''[[A Moon for the Misbegotten]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1974-awards/ |title=Nominees and Recipients – 1974 Awards |publisher=[[Drama Desk Award]]s |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| 1983
| rowspan="2"| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play|Outstanding Actress in a Play]]
| ''The Queen and the Rebels''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1983-awards/ |title=Nominees and Recipients – 1983 Awards |publisher=[[Drama Desk Award]]s |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1989-awards/ |title=Nominees and Recipients – 1989 Awards |publisher=[[Drama Desk Award]]s |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|}

===[[Gemini Awards]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| [[1st Gemini Awards|1986]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Program or Series|Best Performance by a Supporting Actress]]
| ''[[Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)|Anne of Green Gables]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[3rd Gemini Awards|1988]]
| ''[[Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[5th Gemini Awards|1990]]
| Best Guest Performance in a Series by an Actor or Actress
| ''[[Road to Avonlea]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|}

===[[Genie Awards]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| [[2nd Genie Awards|1980]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Actress in a Supporting Role]]
| ''[[Tribute (1980 film)|Tribute]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[10th Genie Awards|1988]]
| ''[[Obsessed (1987 film)|Hitting Home]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[11th Genie Awards|1989]]
| [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role]]
| ''[[Termini Station (film)|Termini Station]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|}

===[[Obie Award]]s===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| 1957
| rowspan="2"| [[Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress|Distinguished Performance by an Actress]]
| ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' / ''[[L'Aigle à deux têtes|The Eagle Has Two Heads]]'' / ''Camille''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.obieawards.com/events/1950s/year-57/ |title=57 Obie Awards |publisher=[[Obie Award]]s |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| 1963
| ''[[Desire Under the Elms]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.obieawards.com/events/1960s/year-63/ |title=63 Obie Awards |publisher=[[Obie Award]]s |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|}

===[[Primetime Emmy Awards]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| [[14th Primetime Emmy Awards|1962]]
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series|Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress]]
| ''Focus''
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="13"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/colleen-dewhurst |title=Colleen Dewhurst |publisher=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]] |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[20th Primetime Emmy Awards|1968]]
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama]]
| ''[[The Crucible#Television|The Crucible]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[23rd Primetime Emmy Awards|1971]]
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role]]
| ''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'' {{small|(Episode: "[[The Price (1971 film)|The Price]]")}}
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[28th Primetime Emmy Awards|1976]]
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special]]
| ''[[A Moon for the Misbegotten]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[31st Primetime Emmy Awards|1979]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special]]
| ''[[Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[33rd Primetime Emmy Awards|1981]]
| ''[[The Women's Room (film)|The Women's Room]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[38th Primetime Emmy Awards|1986]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special]]
| ''[[Between Two Women (1986 film)|Between Two Women]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[41st Primetime Emmy Awards|1989]]
| ''[[Those She Left Behind]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series|Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series]]
| ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' {{small|(Episode: "Mama Said")}}
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[42nd Primetime Emmy Awards|1990]]
| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special
| ''[[Lantern Hill (film)|Lantern Hill]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series|Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series]]
| ''[[Road to Avonlea]]'' {{small|(Episode: "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's")}}
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[43rd Primetime Emmy Awards|1991]]
| Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
| ''Murphy Brown'' {{small|(Episode: "Bob & Murphy & Ted & Avery")}}
| {{won}}
|-
| Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
| ''Road to Avonlea'' {{small|(Episode: "The Materializing of Duncan McTavish")}}
| {{nom}}
|}

===[[Sarah Siddons Award]]s===
{| class=wikitable
|-
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| 1975
| [[Sarah Siddons Award]]
| {{n/a}}
| {{Won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://sarahsiddonssociety.org/awardees |title=Sarah Siddons Society Awardees |publisher=[[Sarah Siddons Award]]s |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|}

===[[Stinkers Bad Movie Awards]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| [[1979 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards|1979]]
| Worst Supporting Actress
| ''[[Ice Castles]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1979/1979st.htm |title=Past Winners Database |publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=August 15, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070106030310/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1979/1979st.htm |archive-date=January 6, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|}

===[[Theatre World Award]]s===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| 1958
| {{N/A}}
| ''Children of Darkness''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatreworldawards.org/past-recipients |title=Past Honorees |publisher=[[Theatre World Award]]s |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|}

===[[Tony Awards]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| [[15th Tony Awards|1961]]
| [[Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play|Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a Play]]
| ''[[All the Way Home (play)|All the Way Home]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1961/category/any/show/any/ |title=1961 Tony Awards |publisher=[[Tony Awards]] |access-date=December 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[16th Tony Awards|1962]]
| rowspan="7"| [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play|Best Leading Actress in a Play]]
| ''[[Great Day in the Morning (play)|Great Day in the Morning]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1962/category/any/show/any/ |title=1962 Tony Awards |publisher=[[Tony Awards]] |access-date=December 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[18th Tony Awards|1964]]
| ''[[The Ballad of the Sad Café (play)|The Ballad of the Sad Café]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1964/category/any/show/any/ |title=1964 Tony Awards |publisher=[[Tony Awards]] |access-date=December 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[22nd Tony Awards|1968]]
| ''[[More Stately Mansions]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1968/category/any/show/any/ |title=1968 Tony Awards |publisher=[[Tony Awards]] |access-date=December 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[26th Tony Awards|1972]]
| ''[[All Over]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1972/category/any/show/any/ |title=1972 Tony Awards |publisher=[[Tony Awards]] |access-date=December 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[27th Tony Awards|1973]]
| ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1973/category/any/show/any/ |title=1973 Tony Awards |publisher=[[Tony Awards]] |access-date=December 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[28th Tony Awards|1974]]
| ''[[A Moon for the Misbegotten]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1974/category/any/show/any/ |title=1974 Tony Awards |publisher=[[Tony Awards]] |access-date=December 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[31st Tony Awards|1977]]
| ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1977/category/any/show/any/ |title=1977 Tony Awards |publisher=[[Tony Awards]] |access-date=December 28, 2024}}</ref>
|}

===[[Viewers for Quality Television|Viewers for Quality Television Awards]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| 1991
| Specialty Player
| ''[[Murphy Brown]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|}

===[[Bronze Wrangler|Western Heritage Awards]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| 1972
| Theatrical Motion Picture
| ''[[The Cowboys]]''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/collections/awards/wha/427no-title/ |title=The Cowboys |publisher=[[National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum]] |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>
|}

==Bibliography==
* Dewhurst, Colleen; Viola, Tom (1997). ''Colleen Dewhurst - Her Autobiography''. [[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]. {{ISBN|978-0-684-80701-0}}.

==References==
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