Celebrity Biographies
Jill Clayburgh
Jill Clayburgh stood out not only in the cinema but also in the New York theater. The protagonist of A married woman passed away on November 5, 2010 in Lakeville (Connecticut). According to her husband, playwright David Rabe, she had been battling leukemia for more than two decades. She was 66 years old.
Born on April 30, 1944, New Yorker Jill Clayburgh came from a family that enjoyed a good financial situation, so she could afford the best schools. She made the decision to become an actress after seeing Jean Arthur in the play “Peter Pan” which was being performed on Broadway. She enrolled at the Charles Street Repertory Theater, a prestigious Boston institution. In the late 1960s, she made her stage debut, with minor roles in musicals such as “The Rothschilds and Pippin.”
He made his film debut with his friend Robert De Niro in The Wedding Party , one of Brian De Palma ‘s first films , and subsequently landed major roles in The Thief Who Came to Dinner and The Terminal Man . She played legendary actress Carole Lombard in Idols Love Too , and was the female lead in the hilarious comedy The Chicago Express , opposite Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor .
But her consecration came from the hand of the filmmaker Paul Mazursky , who made her the star of An Unmarried Woman , where she was a woman trying to rebuild her life after her husband abandoned her to go with a younger woman. She earned an Oscar nomination for best actress. Shortly after, she would compete again for the statuette for the comedy Starting Over , in which she starred with Burt Reynolds . She also played one of her best roles in Bernardo Bertolucci ‘s drama about the mother of a heroin addict The Moon , and was very successful with Now It’s My Turn , opposite Michael Douglas .
Jill Clayburgh was in her professional prime when she shot the hilarious My Dear Mr. Judge in the early 1980s, but over the decade her career declined, and she received hardly any offers of roles to match.
Although she appeared in titles like Andrei Konchalovsky’s Distant Lives , Jill Clayburgh spent the last years of her career in high school ( Only Fools Fall in Love , Clippings of My Life ), in low-budget films, and on the stage. She was Al Pacino ‘s girlfriend for five years, before marrying David Rabe , with whom she had two children.
Her latest successes were obtained in the field of television, as she was the mother of the protagonist in Ally McBeal , and appeared in two episodes of Nip/Tuck: a scalpel stroke and played with Donald Sutherland the series Sexy Money .