Kathleen Widdoes (born March 21, 1939) is an American actress.
Widdoes was born in Wilmington, Delaware and moved to New York City to pursue stage work. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris under a Fulbright scholarship.
She is married with one child and one grandchild.
Soaps
Widdoes is probably most known for her work in soaps; she was an original cast member of Young Doctor Malone, playing Jill Malone from 1958 to 1959. She also played Rose Perrini on Another World from 1978 to 1980. She also appeared for a short time on Ryan's Hope in 1983 as the vindictive villainess Una McCurtain.
In 1985, she began her best known role as Emma Snyder on As the World Turns. The character of Emma was the matriarch of a new core family, based on the real family of then-head writer Douglas Marland. Widdoes is currently a recurring character on the show. She was prominently featured during the show's 50th anniversary program in April 2006 and continues to make regular appearances.
Additional credits
Widdoes has also been prolific in other roles in television, film, and stage. Her film credits include The Group, based on the Mary McCarthy novel, Sidney Lumet's adaptation of The Sea Gull, and I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can. On television, she had a featured role in the HBO series Oz.
External links
Kathleen Widdoes at the Internet Movie Database
NewPP limit report
Preprocessor node count: 271/1000000
Post-expand include size: 1811/2048000 bytes
Template argument size: 902/2048000 bytes
Expensive parser function count: 0/500
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Widdoes"
Categories: 1939 births | Living people | American film actors | American television actors | American soap opera actors | Delaware actors | People from Wilmington, Delaware
Views
Article
Discussion
Edit this page
History
Personal tools
Log in / create account
if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha();
Navigation
Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Search
Interaction
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact Wikipedia
Donate to Wikipedia
Help
Toolbox
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Printable version Permanent linkCite this page
This page was last modified on 2 April 2008, at 21:34.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();
