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Kathleen Widdoes
American actress

Kathleen Widdoes

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American actress
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Wilmington
Age
85 years
Family
Spouse:
Richard Jordan
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Biography

Kathleen Effie Widdoes (born March 21, 1939) is an American actress.

Life and career

Widdoes was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Bernice (née Delapo) and Eugene Widdoes. Widdoes moved to Manhattan to pursue stage work and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris under a Fulbright scholarship. From 1964 to 1972 she was married to well-known actor Richard Jordan, with whom she had her daughter Nina. She is currently married with one child and one grandchild.

Television

Although returning frequently to New York theatre, Widdoes is probably most known for her work in soap operas. She was an original cast member of Young Doctor Malone, playing Jill Malone (1958–59). She played lower middle class matriarch Rose Perrini on Another World (1978–80) and appeared for a short time on Ryan's Hope (1983) as the vindictive villainess Una McCurtain who went crazy as a result of her family's failure to get revenge on Maeve Ryan as part of an old family feud.

In 1985, she began her best-known role, on As the World Turns as Emma Snyder, the matriarch of a new core family based on the real family of then-head writer Douglas Marland. She was prominently featured during the show's 50th anniversary program in April 2006 and continued to make regular appearances until the series finale year although she was noticeably absent during the last few months.

She was menaced in the Dissolve to Black (1961) episode of Roald Dahl's Way Out (1961) and appeared in The Invaders TV series as Ellen Woods (1967), supposedly deranged after seeing extraterrestrials in a barn near her town. She had a featured role in the HBO series Oz (1997, 2000).

Films

Her film credits include The Group (1966), Petulia (1968), Sidney Lumet's The Sea Gull (1968), The Mephisto Waltz (1971), James Ivory's Savages (1972), I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982) and Courage Under Fire (1996).

Theater

She received a 1973 Tony Award nomination (Best Actress in a Play) for her performance as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, set at the end of the Spanish–American War (1898), for the New York Shakespeare Festival. The production transferred from the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park to Broadway and was preserved for television. She played other roles for the Festival, including Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2002, she received the Lucille Lortel Award (Featured Actress) for her work in the play Franny's Way Off-Broadway.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1966Group, TheThe GroupHelena
1968PetuliaWilma
1968Sea Gull, TheThe Sea GullMasha
1971Mephisto Waltz, TheThe Mephisto WaltzMaggie West
1972SavagesLeslie
1982I'm Dancing as Fast as I CanDr. Rawlings
1983Without a TraceMs. Hauser
1996Courage Under FireGeraldine Walden
1998Hi-LifeFrankie

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1958-59Young Doctor MaloneJill MaloneTV series
1959Art Carney Special, TheThe Art Carney SpecialEmily Webb"Our Town"
1960StartimeRachel"Jeff McCleod, the Last Reb"
1961Way OutBonnie Draco"Dissolve to Black"
1961Armstrong Circle TheatreAnna Halber"A Chapter on Tyranny: Dateline Berlin"
1961FestivalOndine"Ondine"
1962FestivalJoan of Arc"The Lark"
1962DuPont Show of the Week, TheThe DuPont Show of the WeekKathy Allen"The Movie Star"
1962Defenders, TheThe DefendersSandra Mason"The Benefactor"
1963Defenders, TheThe DefendersTheresa Sullivan"The Star Spangled Ghetto"
196612 O'Clock HighLt. Irina Zavanoff"Massacre"
1967Invaders, TheThe InvadersEllen Woods"Nightmare"
1967Bell for Adano, AA Bell for AdanoTinaTV film
1968Here Comes the BrideDr. Allyn Wright"A Crying Need"
1968F.B.I., TheThe F.B.I.Margaret Kane"The Hero"
1972BonanzaAnna Kosovo"Frenzy"
1973Much Ado About NothingBeatriceTV film
1973Return of Charlie Chan, TheThe Return of Charlie ChanIrene HadrachiTV film
1974American Parade, TheThe American ParadeAnne Bradstreet"We the Women"
1974Punch and JodyMargaret Howell GrantTV film
1975ABC's Wide World of EntertainmentJoan Harper"Please Call It Murder"
1977Andros Targets, TheThe Andros TargetsBonnie Stanik"A Currency for Murder"
1977KojakSonia"Another Gypsy Queen"
1981Secrets of Midland HeightsHelen Dulles"The Birthday Party"
1981Great PerformancesEdith Wharton"Edith Wharton: Looking Back"
1981NurseDr. Carol Swanson"My Life as a Woman"
1983Ryan's HopeUna MacCurtainTV series
1985-2010As the World TurnsEmma SnyderRegular role
1986Mafia PrincessAngelina GiancanaTV film
1991American PlayhouseMrs. Rosenbloom"The Hollow Boy"
1997-02OzMrs. Beecher"Straight Life", "Works of Mercy", "Impotence"
1999Law & OrderJudge Childers"Sideshow: Part 1"

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