Estelle Winwood

At 101 years old, Estelle Winwood has this physical status:

Estelle Winwood (born Estelle Ruth Goodwin, 1883 – 20 June 1984) was an English stage and film actress who migrated to the United States in mid-career and was known for her wit and tenacity.

Personal life

Winwood married four times, including to successful theater designer, film director, and producer Arthur Chesney, a New Zealand rancher, and American actor Robert Henderson in 1944 in NYC, a man from whom Winwood lived apart in her later years, though he would visit her many times a year. In 1977, Winwood and Henderson divorced in California. Winwood did not have children.

Winwood, a 1964 alumnus, was a good friend of Tallulah Bankhead, who died in 1968. In the early silent film days, bankhead, actresses Eva Le Gallienne and Blyth Daly, and Winwood were called "The Four Riders of the Algonquin" by Eva Le Gallienne and Blyth Daly, because of their appearances together at the Algonquin Round Table. In Answered Prayers, Truman Capote's final, unfinished, thinly veiled roman à clef, Winwood came as a character. She attends a party with Bankhead, Dorothy Parker, Montgomery Clift, and P.B., the novel's narrator, P.B. Jones is a writer who writes about Jones.

Winwood recalled that she smoked three packs of cigarettes a day during a 1979 interview at the age of 95. When Winwood was asked how it felt to have lived so long, she replied, "How rude of you to remind me." On the occasion in Hollywood, California, Bette Davis, a co-star from Dead Ringer, was photographed at Winwood's side.

Winwood died in her sleep in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 101. She was laid to rest in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

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Early life and early career

Born Estelle Ruth Goodwin in Lee, Hundred of Blackheath, Kent, she decided she wanted to be an actress at the age of five. She trained at the Lyric Stage Academy in London, but her father's skepticism, before making her professional debut in Johannesburg at the age of 20. She began working with the Liverpool Repertory Company during the First World War before embarking on a life in London's West End.

Broadway and West End career

She immigrated to the United States in 1916 and made her Broadway debut in New York City. She divided her time between New York City and London until the 1930s. The Theatre was her first passion throughout her life, and she returned to London less often as the years passed, as she became a regular performer on Broadway, appearing in such plays as A Successful Calamity (191920), Ladies in Retirement (1948), and The Madwoman of Chaillot (1948).

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