Beatrice Winde
Beatrice winds ( born January 5, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, † January 3, 2004 in New York City, New York; actually Beatrice Lucille Williams ) was an American actress.
Life
Beatrice winds was born in 1924 when Beatrice Lucille Williams at Chicago, where she also grew up and attended school. The colored girl grew up as one of four children of Marshall Turner Williams and his wife Elizabeth ( maiden name: Crawford ) on. Her father was a barber, her mother worked as a stenographer and secretary of the National Association of Colored Women ( NACW ).
She attended the Lucy Flower High School, appeared as a singer in bands and in the local church choir in appearance and learned at the Chicago Conservatory of Music. Later she studied at the Yale University School of Music and won a scholarship. This enabled her to visit the renowned Juilliard School in New York. There, she became interested in acting. Soon they came into Chicago in plays and won for her performance in Horton Foote's drama The Young Man From Atlanta the Joseph Jefferson Award. When she joined the Actors Organization Actors' Equity Association (AEA), they had to change their name because it was already occupied. Then she stepped from now on under the stage name of Beatrice winds.
From the early 1960s worked winds on New York stage. Her debut on Broadway in New York celebrated the actress in 1971 with Gilbert Moses ' musical Is not Supposed to Die a Natural Death at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The production brought it in the course of ten months over 300 performances and winds received the Theatre World Award and a nomination for the Tony Award as Best Supporting Actress. In addition to her stage career, she made her television debut in 1974 with a supporting role in John Kortys award-winning drama The Story of Jane Pittman. A year later she celebrated her film debut in Joseph Sargent's action movie Stops the Death Ride the Subway 123 at the side of Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw. Then should follow to 2001, over thirty other film and television roles, almost exclusively supporting roles. She graduated from, among others, also guest starred in such well-known series such as The Cosby Show (1992 ), New York Cops - NYPD Blue ( 1995), Law & Order ( 1991,1992, 1994 and 2001) or The Sopranos ( 2000).
Beatrice winds was married to her castmates Raymound Stough. The marriage ended in divorce. The actress died in 2004 just days before her 80th birthday from cancer. In recognition of her work, she had received a Living Legend Award from the National Black Theatre in 1997.