Collin Wilcox Biography

Cincinnati native Collin Wilcox honed her performing skills with the Chicago improve troupe The Compass Players in the 1950s before moving eastward to cultivate a successful career on Broadway. She appeared in productions like The Day Money Stopped and Look, We've Come Through and also worked in the realm of movies, most notably playing Mayella Violet Ewell in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. She would continue to act throughout the coming decades, appearing in Catch-22, Jaws 2, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and many other projects. Wilcox passed away in 2009 at the age of 74. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi