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Irene Worth (1916–2002)

Actress

Educated at UCLA, she made her Broadway debut in 1943. Primarily a stage actress she moved to Britain in 1944, where she worked at the Old Vic and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She returned to the US in 1975, continuing her stage work on Broadway, and making occasional films. She has won three Tony Awards for her stage work. See full bio »

Born:

Harriet Elizabeth Abrams
in Fairbury, Nebraska, USA

Died:

(age 85) in New York City, New York, USA
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1999 Onegin
Princess Alina
 
1999/I Just the Ticket
Mrs. Haywood
 
1996 Remember WENN (TV series)
Florence Dunthorpe Mellon
– A Rock and a Soft Place (1996) … Florence Dunthorpe Mellon
 
1993 Lost in Yonkers
Grandma Kurnitz
 
1993 The Poetry Hall of Fame (TV movie)
 
1989 The Shell Seekers (TV movie)
Dolly Keeling
 
1988 American Playhouse (TV series)
Patty Benedict
– The Big Knife (1988) … Patty Benedict
 
1986 Ladies in Charge (TV series)
Countess Kutuzov
– All That Glitters (1986) … Countess Kutuzov
 
1985 Fast Forward
Ida Sabol
 
1984 Forbidden
Ruth Friedländer
 
1984 The Tragedy of Coriolanus (TV movie)
Volumnia
 
1983 Storyboard (TV series)
– Inspector Ghote Moves In (1983)
 
1983 Separate Tables (TV movie)
Mrs. Railton-Bell
 
1982 Deathtrap
Helga ten Dorp
 
1981 Eyewitness
Mrs. Sokolow
 
1980 Happy Days (TV movie)
Winnie
 
1979 Rich Kids
Madeline's Mother
 
1979 Under This Sky (TV movie)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 
1977 The Displaced Person (TV movie)
Mrs. McIntyre
 
1974 Great Mysteries (TV series)
Mrs. Purdy
– The Furnished Room (1974) … Mrs. Purdy
 
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra
The Queen Mother Marie Fedorovna
 
1971 King Lear
Goneril
 
1968 A Touch of Venus (TV series)
 
1958-1966 ITV Play of the Week (TV series)
Mrs. Gunhild Borkman
– Variation on a Theme (1966)
– John Gabriel Borkman (1958) … Mrs. Gunhild Borkman
 
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV series)
Miss Collins
– Portrait of a Madonna (1965) … Miss Collins
 
1964 First Night (TV series)
White lady
– Stray Cats and Empty Bottles (1964) … White lady
 
1962 Seven Seas to Calais
Queen Elizabeth I
 
1961 Drama Into Opera: Oedipus Rex (TV movie)
Jocasta (in play "Oedipus Rex")
 
1959 The Scapegoat
Francoise
 
1958 Orders to Kill
Leonie
 
1955 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV series)
Candida
– The Sacred Flame (1955)
– Candida (1955) … Candida
 
1952 The Secret People
Miss Jackson
 
1950 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV series)
– The American (1950)
 
1948 Another Shore
Bucsy Vere-Brown - Socialite
 
1948 One Night with You
Lina Linari
 
Show ShowSelf (6 titles)
1996 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1968 Tempo (TV series)
Celia Copplestone / Herself
– The Actor and the Role: Irene Worth (1968) … Herself/Celia Copplestone
 
1965 Camera Three (TV series)
Herself
– Poems of Edith Sitwell (1965) … Herself
 
1963 Mourir à Madrid (documentary)
Co-Narrator
 
1957 Men, Women and Clothes (TV series)
Herself Modelling Fashions
 
1954 The Stratford Adventure (documentary short)
Herself
 

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(1987) She acted in George Bernard Shaw's play, "You Never Can Tell," at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, England with Michael Hordern in the cast. See more »

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In 1920 her family moved to Reedley, California. She graduated from Newport Harbor High School in 1933. See more »

Star Sign:

Cancer