At age 16, Winters relocated to Los Angeles, and later returned to New York to study acting at The New School.

Her sister Blanche Schrift later married George Boroff, who ran the Circle Theatre (now named El Centro Theatre) in Los Angeles, California. Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, when she was nine years old, and she grew up partly in Queens, New York, as well. Her Jewish education included attendance at the Jamaica Jewish Center and learning Hebrew songs at her public school.

Louis to Austrian immigrants who were also from Grymalow. Her parents were Jewish her father migrated from Grymalow, Austria-Hungary, in what is now Ukraine, and her mother was born in St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre (' The Muny'), and Jonas Schrift, a designer of men's clothing. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Rose (née Winter), a singer with St. Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St. In addition to film, Winters appeared in television, including a tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and wrote three autobiographical books. She also appeared in A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977).

She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift Aug– January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned seven decades.

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