Eileen Shanahan was born on February 29, 1924. She was an actress, known for Murdered Innocence (1996) and Elia Kazan: An Outsider (1982). She was married to John V. Waits Jr. She died on November 2, 2001 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
She was a speechwriter for the Treasury Department in the Kennedy
administration and assistant secretary for public affairs in the
Health, Education and Welfare Department under Jimmy Carter.