Jill Clayburgh
Jill Clayburgh | |
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Jill Clayburgh in Griffin and Phoenix (1976) | |
Born | |
Died | November 5, 2010[1] | (aged 66)
Cause of death | Leukemia |
Resting place | Cremated |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1968–2010 |
Spouse | (her death) |
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Jill Clayburgh (April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010) was an American actress. She was a two-time Best Actress Academy Award nominee and won the Best Actress Award at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.
Clayburgh made her Broadway debut in 1968 and went on to star in the original Broadway productions of the musicals The Rothschilds (1970) and Pippin (1972) In 1975, she starred in the TV movie Hustling, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination. Her role in the 1978 film An Unmarried Woman won her Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. Her second Best Actress Oscar nomination was for the 1979 film Starting Over. In 1984, she returned to Broadway in the revival of the play Design for Living. She received a second Emmy nomination for her 2004 guest role in the drama series Nip/Tuck, and went on to star in the drama series Dirty Sexy Money (2007–09). Her other film roles included Silver Streak (1976), Semi-Tough (1977), La Luna (1979), First Monday in October (1981), Shy People (1987) Whispers in the Dark (1992) and Bridesmaids (2011).
Personal life
Clayburgh was born in New York City, the daughter of Julia Louise (née Dorr 1910-1975),[2] an actress and theatrical production secretary for producer David Merrick, and Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh, a manufacturing executive.[3][4][5] Her paternal grandmother was concert and opera singer Alma Lachenbruch Clayburgh.[6]
Clayburgh's mother was Protestant[7] and her father came from a wealthy Jewish family.[8][9] She was raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where she attended the Brearley School.[8] She then attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she decided that she wanted to be an actress.
Clayburgh married screenwriter and playwright David Rabe in 1979. They had one son, Michael Rabe, and one daughter, actress Lily Rabe. Prior to this, she had dated actor Al Pacino for five years (and briefly appeared with him in a November 1968 N.Y.P.D. episode, "Deadly Circle Of Violence").
Career
Clayburgh joined the Charles Street Repertory Theater in Boston. She made her Broadway debut in 1968 in The Sudden and Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson, and starred in a 1969 off-Broadway production of the Henry Bloomstein play Calling in Crazy, at the Andy Warhol owned Fortune theatre. She went on to appear in numerous Broadway productions in the 1970s and 1980s, including the musicals The Rothschilds in 1972 and Pippin in 1975. Clayburgh made her screen debut in The Wedding Party, filmed in 1963 but not released until six years later, and gained attention with roles such as the love interest of Gene Wilder in the 1976 comedy-mystery Silver Streak, co-starring Richard Pryor. She also starred in the critically acclaimed romantic drama Griffin and Phoenix, opposite Peter Falk.
The first of her two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress was for 1978's An Unmarried Woman, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival (tied with Isabelle Huppert), while the second was for 1979's Starting Over, a comedy with Burt Reynolds. She also received strong notices for a dramatic performance in I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can.
Her other films include Portnoy's Complaint, Gable and Lombard (in which she portrayed screen legend Carole Lombard), as a pro football team owner's daughter in Semi-Tough, as a mathematician in It's My Turn (in which she teaches the proof of the snake lemma), as a conservative Supreme Court justice in First Monday in October and in Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial La Luna, a role in which her character masturbates her son in an attempt to ease his withdrawal from heroin.
Television audiences know Clayburgh from numerous roles in series and movies including Law & Order, The Practice and as Ally McBeal's mother. She received Emmy Award[10] nominations for her work in the made-for-television movie Hustling in 1975 and for guest appearances in the series Nip/Tuck in 2005.
In 2006, she appeared on Broadway in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park with Patrick Wilson and Amanda Peet; she played Peet's mother, a role originated by Mildred Natwick. She also returned to the screen as a therapist's eccentric wife in the all-star ensemble dramedy Running With Scissors, an autobiographical tale of teenage angst and dysfunction based on the book by Augusten Burroughs. During 2007, Clayburgh appeared in the ABC television series Dirty Sexy Money, playing Letitia Darling.
Death
Clayburgh had chronic lymphocytic leukemia for more than 20 years before dying from the disease at her home in Salisbury, Connecticut, on November 5, 2010.[1] The movie Love & Other Drugs was dedicated to in memory.[citation needed] The 2011 film Bridesmaids was Clayburgh's final film appearance.
Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1968 | N.Y.P.D. | Woman in park | Episode: "Deadly Circle of Violence" |
1969 | The Wedding Party | Josephine | |
1971 | The Telephone Book | Bit Part | (uncredited)[11] |
1972 | Portnoy's Complaint | Naomi | |
1972 | The Snoop Sisters | Mary Nero | Episode: "The Female Instinct" |
1973 | The Thief Who Came to Dinner | Jackie | |
1974 | The Terminal Man | Angela Black | |
1974 | Medical Center | Beverly | Episode: "Choice of Evils" |
1974 | Maude | Adele | Episode: "Walter's Heart Attack" |
1974 | The Rockford Files | Marilyn Polonski | Episode: "The Big Ripoff" |
1975 | Hustling | Wanda | Television movie Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie |
1976 | Gable and Lombard | Carole Lombard | |
1976 | Griffin and Phoenix | Sarah Phoenix | Television movie |
1976 | Silver Streak | Hilly Burns | |
1977 | Semi-Tough | Barbara Jane Bookman | |
1978 | An Unmarried Woman | Erica | Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
1979 | La Luna | Caterina Silveri | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
1979 | Starting Over | Marilyn Holmberg | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — American Movie Award for Best Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1980 | It's My Turn | Kate Gunzinger | |
1981 | First Monday in October | Ruth Loomis | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1982 | I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can | Barbara Gordon | |
1983 | Hanna K. | Hanna Kaufman | |
1986 | Miles To Go | Moira Browning | Television movie |
1986 | Where Are the Children? | Nancy Holder Eldridge | |
1987 | Shy People | Diana Sullivan | |
1990 | Oltre l'oceano | Ellen | aka Beyond the Ocean (USA) |
1991 | Pretty Hattie's Baby | Unknown | |
1992 | Whispers in the Dark | Sarah Green | |
1992 | Le grand pardon II | Sally White | aka Day of Atonement |
1993 | Naked in New York | Shirley, Jake's mother | |
1993 | Rich in Love | Helen Odom | |
1994 | For the Love of Nancy | Sally Walsh | Television movie |
1997 | Going All the Way | Alma Burns | |
1997 | When Innocence is Lost | Susan French | |
1997 | Fools Rush In | Nan Whitman | |
1998 | Law & Order | Sheila Atkins | Episode: "Divorce" |
1998 | Frasier | Marie | Episode: "The Perfect Guy" |
1998 | Trinity | Eileen McCallister | 3 episodes |
1999 | Everything's Relative | Mickey Gorelick | 4 episodes |
1999–2001 | Ally McBeal | Jeannie McBeal | 4 episodes |
2001 | Never Again | Grace | |
2001 | Vallen | Ruth | aka Falling |
2002 | Leap of Faith | Cricket Wardwell | 6 episodes |
2004 | The Practice | Victoria Stewart | 3 episodes |
2004 | Nip/Tuck | Bobbi Broderick | 2 episodes Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series |
2006 | Running with Scissors | Agnes Finch | |
2007–2009 | Dirty Sexy Money | Letitia Darling | 23 episodes |
2010 | Love & Other Drugs | Mrs. Randall | |
2011 | Bridesmaids | Judy Walker | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Acting Ensemble Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated — Central Ohio Film Critics Association for Best Ensemble |
References
- ^ a b Fox, Margalit (November 5, 2010). "Jill Clayburgh Dies at 66; Starred in Feminist Roles". The New York Times'.
- ^ https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JPWD-XX3 accessed 8/19/14
- ^ PAW|Albert H. Clayburgh '31
- ^ Jill Clayburgh Film Reference biography
- ^ Jill Clayburgh Biography at Yahoo! Movies
- ^ "ALMA CLAYBURGH, SOPRANO, 76, DEAD; Concert Singer Was Patroni I of Cultural Activities-Aided Youn Musicians". New York Times. 1958-08-06. Retrieved 2010-11-05.
- ^ http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/59910/the-plame-game-jill-clayburgh-a-jew-gyllenhaal-and-lambert/
- ^ a b H.W. Wilson Company (1979). Current Biography. University of Michigan: H. W. Wilson Co. p. 76.
- ^ White, James Terry (1967). The National cyclopaedia of American biography: being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time. University Microfilms. p. 229.
- ^ Jill Clayburgh Emmy Award Nomination
- ^ IMDB has no mention of her name in this film.
External links
- Jill Clayburgh at IMDb
- Jill Clayburgh at the Internet Broadway Database
- Jill Clayburgh at Find a Grave
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- Jill Clayburgh – Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org
- Jill Clayburgh at Emmys.com
- 1944 births
- 2010 deaths
- Cancer deaths in Connecticut
- Deaths from leukemia
- Alumni of women's universities and colleges
- American film actresses
- American musical theatre actresses
- American stage actresses
- American television actresses
- Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute alumni
- Actresses from New York City
- Sarah Lawrence College alumni
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- Actresses from Connecticut
- American people of Jewish descent