Shelley Winters (born August 18, 1920) is an American actress. Born Shirley Schrift in East St. Louis, Illinois, she is known to today's audiences as a large figure of comedians' scathing humor, but when she began her career, she was known as a voluptuous beauty. She is said to have had an affair with Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of President John F. Kennedy.

Her first movie 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 later roles included The Poseidon Adventure (1972) as Mrs. Emmanuel Rosen.

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 a 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)
• Cancer Fund Film Notables Attend Glittering Benefits (1951) (short subject)
• 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)
• (1987) (documentary)
• Purple People Eater (1988)
• An Unremarkable Life (1989)
• (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)