Catherine Burns
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Catherine Burns (born September 24, 1945) is an American actress.
Born in New York City, Burns attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her Broadway debut in 1968 in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. In 1970 she won the Theatre World Award for her performance in the off-Broadway play Dear Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr. Kooning.
Burns made her screen debut in 1969 in Last Summer as sensitive, conservative Rhoda, a receiving critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The role also brought her the 1970 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Her other film credits include Me, Natalie and Red Sky at Morning.
[edit] Television
Burns' television debut was the role of Mary Warren in Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1967). Her other TV credits include the adaptation of Arthur Miller's play A Memory of Two Mondays (1974) and guest appearances on One Life to Live, Love, American Style, Adam-12, The Mod Squad, The Waltons and The Bionic Woman. She continued on television throughout the 1970s and into the mid-1980s, when she turned from acting to writing.
During the 1990s, while employed as an office receptionist, she was writing a play about the first production of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths at the Moscow Arts Theatre.
