- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJacqueline Ruth Woods
- Height5′ (1.52 m)
- Ilene Woods was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the daughter of a backstage mom who was responsible for Ilene getting her show biz start on the stage at 2. At 14, she received an offer to top-line her own radio show once she became available at the end of that school year during a vacation in New York City. The Ilene Woods Show soon started its run on the Blue Network as a 3-nights-a-week, 15-minute musical series. She then did radio work in Chicago before moving to California, where she landed her first & only on-screen movie role (On Stage Everybody (1945)) as well as a stint on the Jack Carson-starring radio series Sealtest Village Store. Her songwriter-friends Mack David & Jerry Livingston asked her to record 2 of their newest songs, not telling her that they were for the upcoming Disney film Cinderella (1950). When Walt Disney heard her voice on the recordings, he chose her to voice that film's title role.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver
- SpousesEd Shaughnessy(1963 - July 1, 2010) (her death, 2 children)Stephen John Steck Jr.(July 8, 1946 - 1955) (divorced, 1 child)
- Her trademark voice role of Cinderella
- She revealed in a 1995 interview for Cinderella that when the film was released in 1950 she took her daughter Stephanie who was 3 at the time to the premiere and when the movie came on Stephanie screamed in the theater My mommy is Cinderella! And two old ladies sitting behind them turned to each other and said Isn't that sweet! She thinks her mother is Cinderella!.
- Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 39, a son Daniel Shaughnessy on September 24, 1968. Child's father was her 2nd husband, Ed Shaughnessy.
- Her son James died in a car accident in San Bernardino, California on April 13, 1984 at age 18.
- Gave birth to her 1st child at age 18, a daughter Stephanie Joan Steck on May 14, 1947. Child's father was her 1st [now ex] husband, Stephen Steck.
- She was cremated and her ashes given to her family.
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