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Kitty Winn enjoyed a brief but fruitful acting career during one of cinema's most inspired decades, the 1970s. Jerry Schatzberg's intense 1971 drug drama "The Panic in Needle Park" marked her big screen debut, playing a heroin addict opposite a still-green Al Pacino. Winn won Best Actress at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, and "Premiere" magazine named her harrowing turn as 76th among the...

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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

The Last Hurrah (1977)

Maeve Skeffington

Mianne Prendergast

Most Wanted (1976)

Miles to Go Before I Sleep (1975)

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Panic In Needle Park, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) I've Been In Jail Eight Times

Panic In Needle Park, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Hank's A Burglar

Biography

Kitty Winn enjoyed a brief but fruitful acting career during one of cinema's most inspired decades, the 1970s. Jerry Schatzberg's intense 1971 drug drama "The Panic in Needle Park" marked her big screen debut, playing a heroin addict opposite a still-green Al Pacino. Winn won Best Actress at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, and "Premiere" magazine named her harrowing turn as 76th among the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time in 2006. In 1973, she landed a supporting role in "The Exorcist," a box office smash which is widely considered to be the scariest movie of all time. In the wake of the film's huge financial and critical success, Winn reprised her role as Sharon Spencer in the inevitable sequel, "Exorcist II: The Heretic." "Mirrors," a horror flick that cast her as a newlywed cursed by a voodoo priestess, proved to be Winn's final film role. Winn's other works included "Peeper," a period crime comedy starring Michael Caine as a clueless PI, and "They Might Be Giants" with Oscar-winner George C. Scott. "Giants" starred Scott as a deluded widower who casts himself as Sherlock Holmes in a mystery of his own invention. Winn quit the business in 1984 in order to raise a family.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

The Last Hurrah (1977)

Maeve Skeffington

Mianne Prendergast

Most Wanted (1976)

Miles to Go Before I Sleep (1975)

The Exorcist (1973)

Message to My Daughter (1973)

Man on a String (1972)

Life Events

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Panic In Needle Park, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) I've Been In Jail Eight Times Helen (Kitty Winn), released from a Manhattan hospital after treatment following a botched illicit abortion, is mostly pleased to find Bobby (a charming Al Pacino, in his first movie lead role), her boyfriend’s dealer, waiting, in director Jerry Schatzberg’s gritty The Panic In Needle Park, 1971

Panic In Needle Park, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Hank's A Burglar Easily winning-over otherwise untethered Helen (Kitty Winn) with his street-smarts, Upper West Side heroin dealer Bobby (Al Pacino) introduces addict friends (Warren Finnerty as Sammy), and “brother” Hank (Richard Bright), in The Panic In Needle Park, 1971, screenplay by Joan Didion and husband John Gregory Dunne.

Panic In Needle Park, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) The Chick Is Sick After a long stretch of subway noise under the credits, director Jerry Schatzberg joins Helen (Kitty Winn) riding downtown where she joins artist boyfriend Marco (Raul Julia), then Bobby (Al Pacino), evidently his dealer, joins them, opening The Panic In Needle Park, 1971, from a novel by James Mills.

Panic In Needle Park, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Like To Wake Up Alone Still shocking, Al Pacino as New York heroin dealer/user Bobby, happily chatting with new girlfriend Helen (Kitty Winn) while friends (Warren Finnerty, Michael McClanathan and especially Kiel Martin as Chico) shoot up, in director Jerry Schatzberg’s The Panic In Needle Park, 1971.

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) -- (Original Trailer) With disco, insects, electronics, general demonic bedlam and terrific talent on both sides of the camera, the original trailer for the almost universally denounced sequel, Exorcist II:The Heretic, 1977, directed by John Boorman.

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