Shelley Winters

Acting

1947 — 1996 · 42 films

Lived

18 August 1920 — d. 2006

From

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades. She appeared in numerous films, and won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).