Shelley Winters (innate August 18, 1920) is an American actress.

Born Shirley Schrift to Jewish parents - Jonas Schrift (an immigrant) and Rose Winter (world health organization was natural within Usa) - in East St. Louis, Illinois. She is known to now's audiences as a big figure of comedians' vituperative humor (especially for her fleshiness in the film The Poseidon Adventure), but while she began her career, she was referred to as the voluptuous beauty. As well, she has wasted a good deal of weight since a early Nineties. She is said to will have an affair with Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of President John F. Kennedy, as well as with many Hollywood-based attractive men, including the late actor William Holden, with whom she kept her yearly rendezvous, and of whom she wrote in her autobiography.

Her number one picture show was What a Woman! in 1943. By 1959, she had won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue in 1965. Notable late roles involved her turn when a when gorgeous, alcohol-dependent previous starlet "Fay Estabrook" inside "Harper" (1966) & in The Poseidon Adventure (1972) as a ill-doomed "Mrs. Emmanuel Rosen", for which she received her final Oscar nomination. Around the revenant role in the early 1990s, Winters played the title character's grandmother on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, which had a freaky outcome of making her play Estelle Parsons' (who played Roseanne's mother) mother, although Parsons is single Seven years immature, & looks just about a equivalent age when Winters.

the 85 seasin-old actress is presently making the heavy recovery within the southern California hospital, when suffering a heart attack on 10/14/05.

Academy Awards and nominations
1973 - Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Poseidon Adventure 1966 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - A Patch of Blue 1960 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Diary of Anne Frank 1952 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - A Place in the Sun

She has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1750 Vine Street.

Filmography
What a Woman! (1943) The Racket Man (1944) ''Sailor's Holiday (1944) Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) Cover Girl (1944) She's a Soldier Too (1944) Together Again (1944) Tonight and Every Night (1945) Dancing in Manhattan (1945) Escape in the Fog (1945) A Thousand and One Nights (1945) The Fighting Guardsman (1946) Two Smart People (1946) New Orleans (1947) Living in a Big Way (1947) The Gangster (1947) A Double Life (1947) Killer McCoy (1947) Red River (1948) Larceny (1948) Cry of the City (1948) South Sea Sinner (1949) Take One False Step (1949) The Great Gatsby (1949) Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) Winchester '73 (1950) Frenchie (1950) The Raging Tide (1951) He Ran All the Way (1951) A Place in the Sun (1951) Behave Yourself! (1951) Phone Call from a Stranger (1952) Meet Danny Wilson (1952) Untamed Frontier (1952) My Man and I (1952) Cash on Delivery (1954) Tennessee Champ (1954) Saskatchewan (1954) Playgirl (1954) Executive Suite (1954) Mambo (1954) I Am a Camera (1955) The Night of the Hunter (1955) The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955) The Big Knife (1955) I Died a Thousand Times (1955) The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) The Young Savages (1961) Lolita (1962) The Chapman Report (1962) The Balcony (1963) Wives and Lovers (1963) Time of Indifference (1964) A House Is Not a Home (1964) The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) A Patch of Blue (1965) The Three Sisters (1966) Harper (1966) Alfie (1966) Enter Laughing (1967) The Scalphunters (1968) Wild in the Streets (1968) Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) Arthur! Arthur! (1969) The Mad Room (1969) Bloody Mama (1970) How Do I Love Thee? (1970) Flap (1970) Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) Something to Hide (1972) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Blume in Love (1973) Cleopatra Jones (1973) Poor Pretty Eddy (1975) Journey Into Fear (1975) Diamonds (1975) That Lucky Touch (1975) The Scarlet Dahila (1976) Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) The Tenant (1976) Mimi Bluette... Flower of My Garden (1977) Black Journal (1977) Tentacles (1977) An Average Little Man (1977) Pete's Dragon (1977) King of the Gypsies (1978) The Visitor (1979) City on Fire (1979) The Magician of Lublin (1979) S.O.B. (1981) Looping (1981) Fanny Hill (1983) Ellie (1984) Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984) Deja Vu (1985) Witchfire (1986) Very Close Quarters (1986) The Delta Force (1986) Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987) (documentary) Purple People Eater (1988) An Unremarkable Life (1989) Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990) (documentary) Touch of a Stranger (1990) Stepping Out (1991) The Pickle (1993) A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary) The Silence of the Hams (1994) Heavy (1995) Backfire! (1995) Jury Duty (1995) Mrs. Munck (1995) Raging Angels (1995) The Portrait of a Lady (1996) Gideon (1999) La Bomba (1999) A-List (2004) (Cameo)

TV Work
Wipe-Out (1963) A Death of Innocence (1971) Adventures of Nick Carter (1972) The Devil's Daughter (1973) Big Rose: Double Trouble (1974) The Sex Symbol (1974) Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976) (voice) The Initiation of Sarah (1978) Elvis (1979) Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979) (voice) The French Atlantic Affair (1979) (miniseries) Emma and Grandpa on the Farm (1983) (narrator) Alice in Wonderland (1985) Weep No More, My Lady'' (1992)