Celebrity Biographies
Joanne Linville
He appeared in such popular series as “Star Trek” and “Twilight Zone”. Joanne Linville passed away on June 20, 2021, at the age of 93 at her Los Angeles residence. “She had a full life. Her passion for living from her became an inspiration to all who had the pleasure of knowing her,” explained her agent in the statement in which she released the sad news. .
Born on January 15, 1928 in Bakersfield (California), Beverly Joanne Linville –her full name– worked as an assistant in a dentist’s office as soon as she finished high school. She later studied acting with Stella Adler, while working as a dancer in various shows to pay her tuition. Later, she would found an acting school with Adler.
Joanne Linville made her film debut with the western Copper Gorge , where she didn’t even appear in the credits. Afterwards, she appeared in numerous television series, for example, she gave life to a Romulan commander, in the Star Trek episode “The Enterprise Incident” , while in the other great cathodic classic of the fantastic genre, The Twilight Zone , she appeared in the episode “The passers-by”, where she played Lavinia, a southern belle who has been left alone after her husband left for the Civil War.
On film, Joanne Linville played the wife of Burt Lancaster , a retired CIA agent, in Scorpio , and Freddie Lowenstein, Kris Kristofferson ‘s agent , in A Star Is Born .
Divorced in 1973 from actor and director Mark Rydell , Joanne Linville worked under him in the telefilm James Dean (2001), where she played columnist and gossip queen Hedda Hopper. The couple had two children, Amy Rydell and Christopher Rydell , who are also into acting.
In addition, she worked as an acting teacher. In 2011, she published “Seven Steps to an Acting Craft”, a guide for those who want to become a top-notch actor. “Not theorizing, but Joanne Linville is a great performer who has distilled into this book years of experience drawn from the classroom, theater, film and television,” Mark Ruffalo said of the volume. A student of hers, he has praised her virtues as a teacher in interviews. “I was living in San Diego, and I was smoking marijuana, but I took the advice of a friend and asked to audition with Professor Joanne Linville.. After interviewing me for ten minutes he told me “you belong in this place, honey.” I got emotional, because no one had ever told me I belonged anywhere,” Ruffalo recalled.