Kitty Winn was born in Washington D.C. and spent much of her childhood time traveling to China, India and Japan. She made her Broadway debut in 1959 in "The Three Sisters" and won the Golden Palm Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for her role of opposite Al Pacino in The Panic in Needle Park. She also starred in "Hamlet" for New York's Shakespeare in the Park. She created the great role of Sharon in the Academy Award winning motion picture The Exorcist (1973) and such an outright embarrassment in 'Exorcist II: The Heretic' (1977). Her last film was Marianne (1978), portraying a lead role of Marriane who has been cursed. She currently does Broadway work.



Portrayed Ophelia in a star-studded 1972 NY production of "Hamlet" starring Stacy Keach Colleen Dewhurst and James Earl Jones. Her performance as "Helen" in The Panic in Needle Park (1971) is ranked #76 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).