Kathleen Widdoes

Kathleen Widdoes
Born	Kathleen Effie Widdoes (1939-03-21) March 21, 1939 (age 79) Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Spouse(s)	Richard Jordan (m. 1964; div. 1972) Jerry Senter
Children	1

Kathleen Effie Widdoes (born March 21, 1939) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Emma Snyder in the television soap opera As the World Turns, which earned her four Daytime Emmy Award nominations.

Widdoes was also nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award, as well as winning two Obie Awards and a Lucille Lortel Award.

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  1 Life and career
  
  
  
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  2 Filmography
  
  
  
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Life and career

Widdoes was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Bernice (née Delapo) and Eugene Widdoes.^[1] Widdoes moved to Manhattan to pursue stage work and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris under a Fulbright scholarship. From 1964 to 1972 she was married to well-known actor Richard Jordan, with whom she had her daughter Nina. She is currently married with one child and one grandchild.

Television

Although returning frequently to New York theatre, Widdoes is probably most known for her work in soap operas. She was an original cast member of Young Doctor Malone, playing Jill Malone (1958–59). She played lower middle class matriarch Rose Perrini on Another World (1978–80) and appeared for a short time on Ryan's Hope (1983) as the vindictive villainess Una McCurtain who went crazy as a result of her family's failure to get revenge on Maeve Ryan as part of an old family feud.

In 1985, she began her best-known role, on As the World Turns as Emma Snyder, the matriarch of a new core family based on the real family of then-head writer Douglas Marland. She was prominently featured during the show's 50th anniversary program in April 2006 and continued to make regular appearances until the series finale year although she was noticeably absent during the last few months.

In Season 1, Episode 2, "A Crying Need", on the television series Here Come the Brides, she appears as Dr. Allyn Wright, Seattle's first doctor who also happens to be female. The series ran from 1968-1970.

She was menaced in the Dissolve to Black (1961) episode of Roald Dahl's Way Out (1961) and appeared in The Invaders TV series as Ellen Woods (1967), supposedly deranged after seeing extraterrestrials in a barn near her town in the episode "Nightmare". She had a featured role in the HBO series Oz (1997, 2000).

Films

Her film credits include The Group (1966), Petulia (1968), The Sea Gull (1968), The Mephisto Waltz (1971), Savages (1972), I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982) and Courage Under Fire (1996).

Theater

She received a 1973 Tony Award nomination (Best Actress in a Play) for her performance as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing,^[2] set at the end of the Spanish–American War (1898), for the New York Shakespeare Festival. The production transferred from the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park to Broadway and was preserved for television. She played other roles for the Festival, including Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2002, she received the Lucille Lortel Award (Featured Actress) for her work in the play Franny's Way Off-Broadway.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	The Group	Helena
1968	Petulia	Wilma
1968	The Sea Gull	Masha
1971	The Mephisto Waltz	Maggie West
1972	Savages	Leslie
1982	I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can	Dr. Rawlings
1983	Without a Trace	Ms. Hauser
1996	Courage Under Fire	Geraldine Walden
1998	Hi-Life	Frankie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1958-59	Young Doctor Malone	Jill Malone	TV series
1959	The Art Carney Special	Emily Webb	"Our Town"
1960	Startime	Rachel	"Jeff McCleod, the Last Reb"
1961	Way Out	Bonnie Draco	"Dissolve to Black"
1961	Armstrong Circle Theatre	Anna Halber	"A Chapter on Tyranny: Dateline Berlin"
1961	Festival	Ondine	"Ondine"
1962	Festival	Joan of Arc	"The Lark"
1962	The DuPont Show of the Week	Kathy Allen	"The Movie Star"
1962	The Defenders	Sandra Mason	"The Benefactor"
1963	The Defenders	Theresa Sullivan	"The Star Spangled Ghetto"
1966	12 O'Clock High	Lt. Irina Zavanoff	"Massacre"
1967	The Invaders	Ellen Woods	"Nightmare"
1967	A Bell for Adano	Tina	TV film
1968	Here Comes the Bride	Dr. Allyn Wright	"A Crying Need"
1968	The F.B.I.	Margaret Kane	"The Hero"
1972	Bonanza	Anna Kosovo	"Frenzy"
1973	Much Ado About Nothing	Beatrice	TV film[3]
1973	The Return of Charlie Chan	Irene Hadrachi	TV film
1974	The American Parade	Anne Bradstreet	"We the Women"
1974	Punch and Jody	Margaret Howell Grant	TV film
1975	ABC's Wide World of Entertainment	Joan Harper	"Please Call It Murder"
1977	The Andros Targets	Bonnie Stanik	"A Currency for Murder"
1977	Kojak	Sonia	"Another Gypsy Queen"
1978-80	Another World	Rosie	TV series
1981	Secrets of Midland Heights	Helen Dulles	"The Birthday Party"
1981	Great Performances	Edith Wharton	"Edith Wharton: Looking Back"
1981	Nurse	Dr. Carol Swanson	"My Life as a Woman"
1983	Ryan's Hope	Una MacCurtain	TV series
1985-2010	As the World Turns	Emma Snyder	TV series
1986	Mafia Princess	Angelina Giancana	TV film
1991	American Playhouse	Mrs. Rosenbloom	"The Hollow Boy"
1997-02	Oz	Mrs. Beecher	"Straight Life", "Works of Mercy", "Impotence"
1999	Law & Order	Judge Childers	"Sideshow: Part 1"

References

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   ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/10/Kathleen-Widdoes.html
   


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   ^ The New York Times Biographical Service. New York Times & Arno Press. 1973.
   

External links

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  Kathleen Widdoes on IMDb


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  Kathleen Widdoes at the Internet Broadway Database
  


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  Kathleen Widdoes at Internet Off-Broadway Database
  

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