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 1969 in "The Three Sisters" and won the Golden Palm Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for her role opposite Al Pacino in The Panic in Needle Park (1971). 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 Mirrors (1978), portraying a lead role of "Marianne Whitman", who has been cursed.