It was a real fantasy. No other film has made such a sensitive, empathic case for a modern woman's need to call her soul her own.[28]. How did Jill Clayburgh die? Thats a shame, The bedrooms and boardrooms of the rich and loathsome all in a media-business book, Travis Bickle, meet Toni Morrison, in a socially probing, fiercely fun debut novel, Scott Adams says he was using hyperbole: America being programmed to see race first, 10 books to add to your reading list in March, For the soul of Black history, a podcaster-author looked past the same old stories, How MIT scientists fought for gender equality and won, Sign up for the Los Angeles Times Book Club, Desperate mountain residents trapped by snow beg for help; We are coming, Sheriff says, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Best coffee city in the world? She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City. [5][6], Clayburgh reportedly never talked about her religious background and was not raised in the faith of either of her parents. After guest-starring on an episode of The Snoop Sisters, Clayburgh played Ryan O'Neal's ex-wife in The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) and starred in a TV pilot that was not picked up, Going Places (1973). Please try again later. In 1999, "Entertainment Weekly" named her one of Hollywood's 25 greatest actresses. / CBS NEWS, First published on November 6, 2010 / 12:23 PM. Clayburgh was born in New York City, the daughter of Julia Louise (ne Dorr 1910-1975), an actress and theatrical production secretary for producer David Merrick, and Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh, a manufacturing executive. She was 66. Also in 1976, she had her first big box office success playing the love interest of Gene Wilder's character in the comedy-mystery Silver Streak, also starring Richard Pryor. Jill Clayburgh, an Oscar-nominated actress known for portraying strong, independent women, died on Friday at her home in Lakeville, Conn. She was 66.
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