Yvonne Sherwell

Yvonne Sherwell (May 27, 1927 – April 6, 2020) was an American actress, dancer, and author.

Sherwell was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Helen Louise Sherwell, a playwright and reporter for the Westerly Sun, and Guillermo Sherwell, a banking executive.

Sherwell had roles in low-cost movies, acted in plays, sang cabaret, was a Spanish dancer, and author. In the 1980s, she worked part-time as a coat checker at the Algonquin Hotel.^[1] She appeared mostly in off-off Broadway shows, including “Big Charlotte,” the John Wallowitch musical.^[2] She wrote Paranoid Pip, a memoir, and Paranoid Pussy Cats, a collection of short stories.^[3] In 2018, she wrote Zig Zag, an autobiography.^[4]

She was also a member of the leadership of the Village Independent Democrats political club.^[5]

In 2012, she was brutally mugged in her apartment building.^[6]

In 1950, she married Paul Eugene Rose, who worked for Lord & Taylor. The couple had one son. In 1958, she married Julio Prol, a guitarist and teacher. They had two children together. She later married Christos Demakopoulos.^[1] Sherwell died of the coronavirus on April 6, 2020, at the age of 92, in Manhattan.^[7]

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