Trish van devere biography
Trish Van Devere
American actress
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| Born | Patricia Louise Dressel () March 9, (age&#;83) Tenafly, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma&#;mater | Ohio Wesleyan University |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years&#;active | – |
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Trish Van Devere (born Patricia Louise Dressel; March 9, )[a] is a retired American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the film One Is a Lonely Number (), and won a Genie Award for the film The Changeling ().
She is the widow of actor George C. Scott, with whom she appeared in multiple films.
Early life
Van Devere was born March 9, [a] as Patricia Louise Dressel in Tenafly, New Jersey.[4] Her father owned a Pontiac dealership and real estate business, which was inherited by her mother after her father's death when Van Devere was nine years old.[4] After attending Tenafly High School,[4] she graduated in from Northern Valley High School[5] before attending Ohio Wesleyan University, where she met and married fellow student Grant Van Devere.[4] The marriage lasted only eight months, though she retained Van Devere as her stage name.[4]
Career
In , Van Devere moved to New York City and began pursuing a career in acting,[4] studying at the Actors Studio.[6] She co-founded the Free Southern Theater with Scott Cunningham, an African American fellow actor, staging plays in fields and at churches in the Southern United States for indigent African Americans who had never seen live theater before.[4] Two years later, Van Devere and Cunningham founded an offshoot theater company, the Poor People's Theater in New York City, headquartered in the basement of Manhattan's Riverside Church, which held similar theatrical productions in churches, schools, and streets.[4]
Van Devere had her breakthrough portraying the original Meredith Lord in the soap opera One Life to Live in — the income from which she largely used to help maintain the Poor People's Theater Company.[4] In , she co-starred with George Segal and Ruth Gordon in the comedy Where's Poppa? She subsequently garnered significant notice for her lead role in the film One Is a Lonely Number (), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe award.
Van Devere married actor George C. Scott in September in Santa Monica, California, after they appeared together in the film The Last Run ().[4] The couple subsequently appeared in a number of films together, including The Day of the Dolphin, and The Savage Is Loose (both , the latter film directed by Scott); the television film Beauty and the Beast (), Movie Movie (), and the supernatural horror film The Changeling ().
Also in , Van Devere had a lead role in the horror film The Hearse.
Van Devere performed frequently in both television and film until , and appeared in television programs such as Love Story, The Fall Guy, Hardcastle and McCormick, Highway to Heaven and The Love Boat.
She also starred alongside Peter Falk in a episode of the detective series Columbo entitled Make Me a Perfect Murder, in which she portrayed a TV producer who murders her ex-lover.
She also appeared in the Charles Bronson movie Messenger of Death. She remained married to Scott until his death in [7]
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
Notes
- ^ abWhile numerous sources list Van Devere's birthday as March 9,[1][2] they vary regarding her birth year, with some citing or ; however, the California Marriage Index lists her age as 31, and birth year as when she married George C.
Scott in [3]
References
- ^"Trish Van Devere". AllMovie. Archived from the original on June 14, Retrieved June 14,
- ^Willis, John; Monush, Barry, eds. ().Trish van devere biography wikipedia During the rest of the decade, they co-starred in the TV movie, Beauty and the Beast , Movie Movie , and The Changeling , a period that coincided with the decline of Scott's stardom and critical reputation. Early life [ edit ]. Uphill All the Way 4. The Hearse 4.
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- ^California Marriage Index, George C. Scott and Patricia L. Dressel, 14 Sep ; from "California, Marriage Index, ," database and images; citing Los Angeles City, California, Center of Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento.
- ^ abcdefghijKlemesrud, Judy (December 31, ). "Trish!George c scott biography Van Devere became a stage actress under the tutelage of Scott. Film [ edit ]. Sign In. Credits Edit.
Mrs. Scott! Both?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 14, Retrieved June 14,
- ^"Actress Nurses Poppa", The Record, November 27, via Accessed June 14, "Miss Pat Dressel, a graduate of Northern Valley High School, is appearing in the movie Where's Poppa?, starring Ruth Gordon and George Segal.
She plays a nurse, using her stage name of Trish Van Devere."
- ^Garfield, David (). "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January ".Trish van devere biography One Is a Lonely Number. The Changeling. The Great Battles of the Civil War 5. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro.
A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
- ^Bernstein, Adam (September 24, ). "Actor George C. Scott Dies at 71". The Washington Post. p.&#;B5. Archived from the original on June 14, Retrieved June 14,