Kitty Winn
Kitty Winn enjoyed a brief but fruitful acting career during one of cinema's most inspired decades, the 1970s. Jerry Schatzberg's intense 1971 drug drama "The Panic in Needle Park" marked her big screen debut, playing a heroin addict opposite a still-green Al Pacino. Winn won Best Actress at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, and "Premiere" magazine named her harrowing turn as 76th among the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time in 2006. In 1973, she landed a supporting role in "The Exorcist," a box office smash which is widely considered to be the scariest movie of all time. In the wake of the film's huge financial and critical success, Winn reprised her role as Sharon Spencer in the inevitable sequel, "Exorcist II: The Heretic." "Mirrors," a horror flick that cast her as a newlywed cursed by a voodoo priestess, proved to be Winn's final film role. Winn's other works included "Peeper," a period crime comedy starring Michael Caine as a clueless PI, and "They Might Be Giants" with Oscar-winner George C. Scott. "Giants" starred Scott as a deluded widower who casts himself as Sherlock Holmes in a mystery of his own invention. Winn quit the business in 1984 in order to raise a family.
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Kitty Winn
Filmography
Movies
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11% |
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Exorcist II: The Heretic | Sharon Spencer (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Hurrah | Maeve Skeffington (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mirrors | Marianne Whitman (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Most Wanted | Sister Beth (Character) | - | 1976 |
22% |
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Peeper | Mianne Prendergast (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Miles to Go Before I Sleep | Maggie Stanton (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Message to My Daughter | Miranda Thatcher (Character) | - | 1973 |
78% |
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The Exorcist | Sharon Spencer (Character) | $441.4M | 1973 |
80% |
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Panic in Needle Park |
Helen, Bobby's Girlfriend/ |
- | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man on a String | Angela Canyon (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
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The House That Would Not Die | Sara Dunning (Character) | - | 1970 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Partners in Crime | Claudia (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Carla Magid (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Edie Kowalski (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Barbara Talmadge (Guest Star) | 1973 |