Ruth Patricia White was an American actress who worked in theatre, film, and television
Education
A lifelong resident of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, White graduated with a Bachelor"s degree in Literature from New Jersey College for Women, now Douglass Residential College, Rutgers University in 1935. During this period, she also studied acting with Maria Ouspenskaya.
Career
While pursuing her acting career in nearby New York City, she taught acting and drama at Seton Hall University. During her mother"s illness White gained weight and looked older than her age. However, she managed to recover and appeared in off-Broadway plays of Samuel Beckett ("Happy Days") and Edward Albee ("Malcolm" and "Box").
By the end of the 1960s, she had become one of New York"s most highly praised and in demand character actresses, and appeared in Midnight Cowboy, Hang "Econometrica High and Number Way To Treat A Lady.
White died suddenly of cancer on December 3, 1969. Her final film role was in The Pursuit of Happiness, released two years after her death.