Born: June 23, 1916
Died: March 10, 2002

While it's understandable that many people regard Irene Worth as a British actress, she was in fact born in Nebraska and educated at U.C.L.A. A one-time schoolteacher, Worth made her professional acting bow in 1942, touring with Elizabeth Bergner in +Escape Me Never. One year later, she was on Broadway, appearing in +The Two Mrs. Carrolls. In 1944, she moved to London, where she studied with Elsie Fogarty and "reinvented" herself as a classical actress. She went on to work with the Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Company, and was prominently cast in the groundbreaking theatrical productions of director Peter_Brook. In 1955, she won a British Film Award for her performance in Orders to Kill. Among her many subsequent professional honors were her three Tony awards for +Tiny Alice (1964), +Sweet Bird of Youth (1975), and +Lost in Yonkers. She repeated her performance as Grandma when +Yonkers was committed to film in 1992. Irene Worth's other movie roles of note include Goneril in Paul Scofield's King_Lear (1971), the Queen Mother in Nicholas and Alexandria (1971), and Dutch psychic Helga Ten Dorp in Deathtrap (1982). Hal Erickson, Rovi

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