Add/Update Information: Shelley Winters - Actor

An American actress, born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 18, 1920 to Austrian Jewish parents. She studied at Thomas Jefferson School in New York and worked various jobs to complete her acting studies. In the early forties, she got several small roles on Broadway and in movies, until her breakthrough role in the movie The Great Gatsby (1949). She honed her talent by studying in the famous Actors Studio. During the fifties and sixties, she became a star, winning two Oscars, and in the seventies, she turned to work in television. She continued to work until the late nineties. Her most notable movies include A Place in the Sun (1951), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), and Alfie (1966). She won the Academy Award twice for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), and A Patch of Blue (1965), as well as a Golden Globe Award for The Poseidon Adventure (1972), in addition to many other awards. She died of heart failure in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California in 2006.