Kitty Winn

Kitty Michelle Winn (born February 21, 1944) is an American actress. Winn was born in Washington, D.C. She spent much of her childhood time traveling to China, India and Japan. She made her Broadway debut in 1969 in The Three Sisters, and won Best Actress at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for her role opposite Al Pacino in The Panic in Needle Park. She also starred in New York's Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet. She is perhaps best kno... more

Kitty Michelle Winn (born February 21, 1944) is an American actress. Winn was born in Washington, D.C. She spent much of her childhood time traveling to China, India and Japan. She made her Broadway debut in 1969 in The Three Sisters, and won Best Actress at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for her role opposite Al Pacino in The Panic in Needle Park. She also starred in New York's Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet. She is perhaps best known for her role as Sharon in the Academy Award winning motion picture The Exorcist, and again in Exorcist II: The Heretic. Her last film was Mirrors in 1978, in which she took the lead role of Marriane, who has been cursed. In the late 1970s, she was an Artist-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. less