Kitty Winn

Career Winn's career has spanned a wide range of dramatic productions on stage, in motion pictures and on television. She studied acting at Centenary Junior College and Boston University, graduating from the latter in 1966. During her college years Winn acted in student productions at Centenary Junior College, Boston University, and Harvard College and summer stock for two summers at The Priscilla Beach Theatre, south of Boston. Shortly after college she joined the company at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where she remained for four years under the artistic direction of William Ball.

In the fall of 1970 Winn left American Conservatory Theater to star opposite Al Pacino in the film The Panic in Needle Park, for which she won the Best Actress award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. Although she went on to do several more films, including They Might Be Giants (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), she spent most of her career in theater.

She played Cordelia in The Tragedy of King Lear for KCET in 1983, and soon retired from acting. She did not return to the stage again until 2011, when she played the lead in The Last Romance at the San Jose Repertory Theatre. For this performance, she was nominated for a best actress award by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle.

Body of work Theatre Year Production Location Play Role 1961 Centenary Junior College Antigone Antigone 1963 Priscilla Beach Theatre Curious Savage Florence 1963 Priscilla Beach Theatre Song of Bernadette Bernadette 1964 Priscilla Beach Theatre Night of the Iguana Miss Jenks 1964 Priscilla Beach Theatre Gigi Gigi 1964 Priscilla Beach Theatre Shot in the Dark Josefa Lantenay 1964 Boston University Measure for Measure Mistress Overdon's girl 1964 Boston University Toys in the Attic Lily 1965 Boston University The Rose Tattoo Rosa 1965 Harvard College The Beggars' Opera Polly Peachum 1966 Boston University The Playboy of the Western World Pegeen Mike 1967 American Conservatory Theater The Crucible Mary Warren 1967 American Conservatory Theater Thieves' Carnival Juliette 1967 American Conservatory Theater Charley's Aunt Kitty 1968 American Conservatory Theater Long Day's Journey into Night Cathleen 1968 American Conservatory Theater Le Misanthrope Celemene 1968 American Conservatory Theater Under Milk Wood Lily Smalls 1969 American Conservatory Theater Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead Ophelia 1969 American Conservatory Theater Charley's Aunt Kitty 1969 ANTE Theatre and American Conservatory Theater The Three Sisters Irina 1969 The Mineola Playhouse Our Town Emily (also with Henry Fonda) Michael York (actor) 1970 American Conservatory Theater Glory Hallelujah Nantelle Bowden 1970 American Conservatory Theater The Rose Tattoo Rosa 1970 American Conservatory Theater The Tempest Miranda 1972 Long Wharf Theatre, New York Shakespeare in the Park, and Mark Taper Forum Hamlet Ophelia (also with Stacy Keach, James Earl Jones and Colleen Dewhurst) 1975 Phoenix Theatre Knuckle (off-Broadway premier) Jenny Wilbur (opposite Perry King) 1975 Ahmanson Theatre Ring Around the Moon Isabelle (opposite Michael York) 1977 Long Wharf Theatre St. Joan Joan 1978 Coconut Grove Playhouse Othello Desdemona 1982 Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis Romeo and Juliet Juliet 2011 San Jose Repertory Theatre The Last Romance Carol

Motion pictures Year Name of Film Role 1971 The Panic in Needle Park Helen Reeves 1972 They Might be Giants Grace 1973 The Exorcist Sharon Spencer 1976 Peeper Marianne Prendergast 1977 Exorcist II: The Heretic Sharon Spencer 1978 Mirrors Marianne Whitman

Movies for television Year Name of Film Role 1970 The House That Would Not Die Sara Dunning 1972 The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet 1973 Message to My Daughter Miranda Thatcher 1974 The Carpenters Sissy 1975 Miles to Go Before I Sleep Maggie Stanton 1977 The Last Hurrah Maeve Skeffington 1983 The Tragedy of King Lear Cordelia

Series for television Year Name of Series Role 1973 The Streets of San Francisco Barbara Talmadge 1975 Beacon Hill Rosamond Lassiter 1977 Kojak - "Kojak Days: Part 1" Carla Magid 1977 Kojak - "Kojak Days: Part 2" Carla Magid

Awards Cannes Film Festival Year Performance Award 1971 Helen in The Panic in Needle Park Best Actress Award