Winslow Corbett
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Winslow Corbett is an American actress and the daughter of Rockford Files supporting player Gretchen Corbett
Gretchen Corbett
Gretchen Corbett is an American actress most noted for the role of Beth Davenport on the television series The Rockford Files from 1974 to 1978.-Early Life in Oregon:...

 (Beth Davenport). Corbett toured as Elaine Robinson in the stage version of The Graduate
The Graduate
The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama motion picture directed by Mike Nichols. It is based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay was by Buck Henry, who makes a cameo appearance as a hotel clerk, and Calder...

during the 2000s, as well as touring in several other plays, and appeared in the TV-movie A Change of Heart (1998). She is named after her ancestor Henry Winslow Corbett
Henry W. Corbett
Henry Winslow Corbett was an American businessman and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Massachusetts, he spend much of his early life in the state of New York before moving to the Oregon Territory where he continued his business interests in retail, and later transportation and banking...

, an Oregon pioneer and United States Senator.

Early life

Born in 1979 and raised primarily by her mother in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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 and Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

, Corbett has been acting since childhood. One of her first public roles was that of Dick Deadeye, in the operetta, "HMS Pinafore
HMS Pinafore
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical...

." Corbett attended The Catlin Gabel School
The Catlin Gabel School
Catlin Gabel School is an independent pre-K to 12 private school in Portland, Oregon, United States.-History:The school was founded in 1957 as a result of merger between the Catlin Hillside School and the Gabel Country Day School...

 through middle and high school, followed by 2 years at the acting conservatory at SUNY Purchase.

Projects

Corbett has participated in the Haven Project, a Portland, OR program that partners disadvantaged youth with professional actors. Each child/ actor team receives a two person original script, written for that child. Together, they block, rehearse and perform the piece.

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