Yvonne Sherwell

Yvonne Sherwell (May 27, 1927 – April 6, 2020) was an 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 was also a member of the leadership of the Village Independent Democrats political club. [3]

She wrote Paranoid Pip, a memoir, and Paranoid Pussy Cats, a collection of short stories.[4] In 2018 she wrote Zig Zag, an autobiography.[5]

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]

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

She died of the coronavirus in April 2020.[7]