Trish Van Devere

Trish Van Devere (born Patricia Louise Dressel; March 9, 1941) is a retired American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the film One Is a Lonely Number, and won a Genie Award for the film The Changeling (1980). She is the widow of actor George C. Scott, with whom she appeared in multiple films.

Early life Van Devere was born March 9, 1941, as Patricia Louise Dressel in Tenafly, New Jersey. Her father owned a Pontiac dealership and real estate business, which was inherited by her mother after her father's death when Van Devere was nine years old. before attending Ohio Wesleyan University, where she met and married a fellow student, Grant Van Devere. She co-founded the Free Southern Theater with Scott Cunningham, an African American fellow actor, staging plays in fields and at churches in the Southern United States for indigent African Americans who had never seen live theater before.

Filmography

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Television

Awards and nominations + Year Award Category Title of work Result 1971 Laurel Award Star of Tomorrow, Female Where's Poppa? 7th place 1973 Golden Globe Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama One is a Lonely Number 1980 Genie Award Best Performance by a Foreign ActressThe Changeling