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The incredibly gifted comedienne-actress Anne Meara is known for her comedic efforts alongside husband-comedian, Jerry Stiller; together, they were 'Stiller and Meara'; they were original members of the improvisational company, the Compass Players, which later evolved as the Second City Theater. They gained popularity with their skits on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948), but the act dissolved following the demise of variety television. Meara went on to offer her talents to a variety of television roles, notably the Golden Globe-winning Sally Gallagher in Rhoda (1974), and Veronica Rooney, an outspoken Irish cook in the hit sitcom Archie Bunker's Place (1979). In later years, Meara played reoccurring characters in Sex and the City (1998) and The King of Queens (1998).- Actress
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The amazingly gifted and versatile, Ms. Diane Ladd, received immense praise for her dramatic efforts throughout the course of her electric and unique seventy-year career. Her timeless offbeat charm and beauty reminiscent of a lamented Hollywood Golden Era actress gleam in the most understated roles and continue to make her a sought-after unconventional performer.- Actress
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Collins entered motion pictures as a stripper in the exploitation film, Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1966), and television, as a maid in the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971). In 1988, she starred in the one-woman play 'Shirley Valentine' in London, and soon after, brought the role to Broadway, winning a Tony Award. She collected a BAFTA Film Award and was nominated an Academy Award for her performance in the film version, Shirley Valentine (1989). Several stage, film and television performances followed.- Lucy Lee Flippin is a multidimensional performer with a degree in theater, film production and oral interpretation from Northwestern University. She spent a year as an ice skater in a Holiday of Ice touring company before honing in on an acting career and later studied acting with Uta Hagen. Her acting career in New York City began with TV commercials and off-Broadway work, most notably Lincoln Center's 1975 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), in which she played Helena (opposite Richard Gere as Demetrius). The play closed after a two-month stretch. At one point or another the actress moved to Los Angeles at the advice of her agent and made her television debut in The Bob Newhart Show (1972) and was later cast as Fran Castleberry, the title character's younger sister in Flo (1980), and as the schoolteacher Eliza Jane Wilder in Little House on the Prairie (1974). After having contributed her talent to several television and film projects throughout the years, she retired in 2008.
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Linda Hunt is a veteran character actress who had only just begun acting in motion pictures when director Peter Weir required her peculiarities to animate one of cinema's most esoteric characters, Billy Kwan, the intellectual and virtuous Chinese-Australian dwarf and photographer, in the Australian romantic drama, The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Hunt's work in the film earned an Oscar, among many critic awards, all for Best Supporting Actress.- Actress
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Lois Chiles is a former supermodel-turned-actress who gave elegant performances in a variety of films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Her motion picture debut role was as Robert Redford's sexual endeavor in the old-fashioned Hollywood melodrama, The Way We Were (1973). Shortly after, she starred opposite Clifton Davis in the indie blaxploitation film, Together for Days (1972); they portrayed a mixed-race couple enduring societal disapproval and political pandemonium. She also appeared as the irreverent socialite Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby (1974), in which she starred alongside Mia Farrow and, again, Robert Redford.
Chiles delivered a series of pivotal characters particularly as a woman who mysteriously falls into a state of unconsciousness after entering the hospital for an early term abortion in Coma (1978), and as an impudent heiress and murder victim in the center of Death on the Nile (1978).
Chiles' most recognized role is the sophisticated NASA astronaut, scientist, and "Bond girl", Dr. Holly Goodhead opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in Moonraker (1979). It is worth noting that Goodhead was different than any previous "Bond girl", in that she was dignified and not so much sexualized. Sadly, that same year, just as Chiles' career was at its height, she lost her youngest brother to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma which resulted in her three-year hiatus from acting. Her career never fully recovered and she struggled to find roles that necessitated her individuality but she persevered and received positive reviews for her continued performances in film and television, particularly in Sweet Liberty (1986), Broadcast News (1987), Creepshow 2 (1987), Diary of a Hitman (1991) and Curdled (1996).
In recent years, she's appeared in a few television sitcoms, participated in interviews recalling her experience as a "Bond girl", and taught an acting class at the University of Houston.- Actress
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Diane Salinger's striking features and offbeat nature make her a sought after character actress to several inventive filmmakers, particularly Tim Burton who directed Salinger at the start of her career in Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985). She played Simone, a roadside diner waitress determined to move to Paris to find eternal love. To date, Simone is Salinger's personally treasured and most watched movie role.- Actress
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Robin Bartlett is a revered stage actress who made her film and television acting debut opposite Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander and Shirley Knight in Playing for Time (1980), a CBS television film written by Arthur Miller. Bartlett gave an emotionally gripping performance as one of several female prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she and a group of female classical musicians were spared in return for performing for their captors.
Over the course of her career, she's worked with talented moviemaking mavericks, including Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, and received award nominations for unique performances.
It might appear that Bartlett prefers theater but she continues to dabble in film and television, and whichever role, small or large, delivers with deliberation and exquisite artistry.- Actress
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Wendy Robie was in Seattle doing repertory theater when she auditioned for a role in Twin Peaks (1990) (also being filmed in Seattle). Robie auditioned for another role in the series but David Lynch and Mark Frost were determined to cast her as Nadine Hurley, the ferocious and eccentric eye patch-wearing wife of "Big" Ed Hurley, played by Everett McGill. Nadine became one of the oddest of the odd in the series. Attached to the series, McGill and Robie starred in Wes Craven's dark and twisted tale of The People Under the Stairs (1991). They delivered a sinister mother/sister/wife concoction. Ever since, Robie has devoted her talents to the theater.- Anne Lambton began a career in the arts at just 17 years old, when on a whim, Andy Warhol's manager discovered her sulking at a charity event and offered her employment at 'The Factory', Warhol's famous New York City studio, originally occupied by his collection of New York City eccentrics (known as 'Warhol Superstars'), and later, an epicenter of cutting-edge art, fashion and culture; initially, Lambton shrugged off the opportunity but reconsidered to become Warhol's bodyguard. Their relationship was tumultuous, to say the least, but it persevered until Warhol's untimely death in 1986. Lambton entered movies with understated yet edgier characters, particularly as a dominatrix in the punk rock romantic tragedy Sid and Nancy (1986), and in the dark fantasy film, The Witches (1990), in which she played an evildoing, snake charming witch.
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Born in Savannah, Georgia, Scarwid moved to New York at 17 to become an actress. Simultaneously, as an honors student, she graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Pace University. She landed some small film and TV roles before her subtle performance in Inside Moves (1980) was nominated for an Oscar, and as Joan Crawford's daughter in Mommie Dearest (1981) - the infamous Razzie. Understated film and TV roles followed. Retired, she lives east of Savannah, Georgia, working with local non-profit organizations and acting workshops.- Malgorzata Zajaczkowska began her acting career in 1979, on stage in the Teatr Narodowy. She moved to the United States 1981 and Americanized her name as Margaret Sophie Stein. Her American film credits include Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Enemies, A Love Story (1989), and Simply Irresistible (1999). She moved to back to Poland in 1999 where she continues a career in acting. She has also lectured at the Warsaw Film School.
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Offbeat leading lady Chloe Webb began her acting career as a member of the satirical Off-Broadway revue, Forbidden Broadway. She entered motion pictures starring opposite Gary Oldman in the romantic tragedy Sid and Nancy (1986). Her performance in the film won a number of awards. Several interesting film and television characters followed.
Fan picks: Sid and Nancy (1986), Tales of the City (1993) and Shameless (2011).- Veteran stage actress Natalie West began her acting career in the early 1980s with performances in several plays in theaters throughout Chicago. West's talent caught the interest of a television writer who encouraged her to tape a reading for the part of Crystal, the quirky and tenderhearted family-friend in the American sitcom Roseanne (1988); West thought little of this but eventually auditioned for the role and won the part. Although a regular in the series, the character's presence dwindled as the series evolved. West primarily focused on theater and later appeared in a leading role in Nate & Margaret (2012), playing Margaret, an aging spinster in a perfectly functioning friendship with Nate, a 19-year-old film student determined to make it in the movie business. West's performance earned a FilmOut Audience Award for Best Actress.
- Swiss-born Welsh-American actress Kate Burton is the daughter of Welsh actors Richard Burton and Sybil Williams. She graduated Brown University (1979), majoring in Russian studies and European history. She served on the board of 'Production Workshop', the university's student-run theater group. She earned her master's at Yale Drama School (1983). She received an honorary doctorate from Brown University (2007). Her dedicated stage, film and television work earned a number of awards and nominations.
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Bronx-born character actress Cathy Moriarty was just 18 years old, fresh out of high school and had no idea that her life was about to change. Joe Pesci discovered her competing in a bathing-beauty contest at a bar. He invited her to audition for the part of Vikki LaMotta, second wife to champion boxer Jake LaMotta, portrayed by Robert De Niro, in Martin Scorsese's timeless black and white masterpiece, Raging Bull (1980). Moriarty's performance earned her an Academy Award nomination; however, shortly after appearing in the mediocre comedy, Neighbors (1981), she endured a near-fatal automobile accident which resulted in a six-year hiatus. She did not get within a mile radius of a good part until her most personally treasured role, the deliciously evil Montana Moorehead in the soap opera-parody, Soapdish (1991). Ever since, Moriarty's invigorating presence animated a variety of strong woman, all of which, incidentally, appear to be specifically written with her in mind.- Actress
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Jane Horrocks is an actress internationally known as the zany and droll Bubble in the award winning British television sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992). She's also remembered as Miss Irvine, an evildoing witch-turned heroine in one her earliest films, The Witches (1990). She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance of "LV", a reclusive and timid woman hiding away her unique singing talent in Little Voice (1998). The film is an adaptation of the 1992 play, 'The Rise and Fall of Little Voice', of which Horrocks originated the role.- Kathy Kiera Clarke is an Irish actress admired for her oeuvre of stage performances throughout the UK. Her television credits are lesser known but nevertheless noteworthy, particularly Pulling Moves (2004), Derry Girls (2018) and The Pale Horse (2020). To moviegoers, she's best remembered for her IFTA Award-nominated portrayal of Frances Cooper, wife of Irish politician, Ivan Cooper, in Paul Greengrass' acclaimed film, Bloody Sunday (2002).
- Ms. Kellermann is an alumna of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, from which she received a bachelor's degree in English literature. She also studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
In 1979, she made her Broadway debut in the play 'Last Licks', for which she received a Theatre World Award.
She played Greta Gravis, mother of the character Latka, played by Andy Kaufman in the comedy series, Taxi (1978).
Aside from theater and television, she provided her talents to many supporting roles in the films Beetlejuice (1988), Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992), Last Holiday (2006) and Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl (2016).