Award-winning stage and TV performer whose regal presence has made her a leading interpreter of American playwrights from Eugene O'Neill to Edward Albee. Frequently cast as sensual, earth-mother types, Dewhurst first won acclaim on Broadway as James Agee's mother in Tad Mosel's adaptation of Agee's "A Death in the Family" and "All the Way Home" (1961). Though she has appeared in relatively few…
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