Sherwood, Madeleine

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Sherwood, Madeleine
Other forms of name
Thornton, Madeleine Louise Helene
Date of birth
1922-11-13
Date of death
2016-04-22
Occupation
Actors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 2668787
Wikidata: Q275324
Library of congress: no 98037582
Sources of Information
  • Cat on a hot tin roof, c1997:credits (Madeleine Sherwood; actress)
  • Internet Movie Database, Jan. 21, 1998:(Madeleine Sherwood; b. 13 Nov. 1922)
  • LC in OCLC, Jan. 27, 1998(hdg.: Sherwood, Madeleine. prf)
  • New York times WWW site, viewed Apr. 28, 2016(in obituary published Apr. 26: Madeleine Sherwood; b. Madeleine Louise Helene Thornton, Nov. 13, 1922, Montreal; m. Robert Sherwood (div.); d. Friday [Apr. 22, 2016], Saint-Hippolyte, Quebec, aged 93; actress on stage, film, and Flying nun; never gave up her Canadian citizenship and returned to Canada in the early 1990s)
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Wikipedia description:

Madeleine Sherwood (born Madeleine Louise Hélène Thornton; November 13, 1922 – April 23, 2016) was a Canadian actress of stage, film and television. She portrayed Mae/Sister Woman and Miss Lucy in both the Broadway and film versions of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth, and starred or featured in 18 original Broadway productions including Arturo Ui, Do I Hear a Waltz? and The Crucible. In 1963 she won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in Hey You, Light Man! Off-Broadway. In television, she played Reverend Mother Placido to Sally Field's Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun (1967–70).

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