Celebrity Biographies
Katherine Helmond
“This is the story of two sisters: Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell.” Viewers of the late 70s will remember the introduction of “Tangle”, hilarious sitcom. The actress who gave life to the first, Katherine Helmond, aunt of Billy Crystal’s character, died at the age of 89, suffering from Alzheimer’s, on February 23, 2019.
Born on July 5, 1929, in Galveston, Texas, into an Irish family, Katherine Marie Helmond attended Catholic school, where she participated in numerous school plays. She had such a passion for the theater that when she was still studying at the institute she went to work at a local in the city, where she performed various tasks, from cleaning the bathrooms to raising the curtain.
In the 1950s, he made his debut on the New York stage, where he played many roles. For one of them, “The Great God Brown,” she earned a Tony nomination. Without leaving the stage, she makes her debut in television series, and plays a lady from high society who has to sell some diamonds to help her Jewish family, in Hindenburg , by Robert Wise . The master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock , recruits her to play the widow of a criminal in The Plot , her last work.
In 1977 she achieved enormous popularity as the optimistic and naive Jessica in the aforementioned Enredo , a parody of television dramas with convoluted plots. “Jessica loves life. The only thing that she would add to life if she could, would be a musical background, ”said the start of the chapters about her character. For her work, she got a Golden Globe, although she later won another statuette for her role as a liberated grandmother in Who’s the Boss? . In the latter she worked as a director, as well as in Benson , a spin-off of Entanglement focused on the butler of her character, where she appeared as an actress occasionally.
On film, she played Goldie Hawn ‘s mother in A Sea of Troubles , and was a regular for filmmaker Terry Gilliam , who recruited her for Time’s Heroes , Brazil , and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . Divorced in 1962 from fellow actor George Martin , she joined David Christian, her partner until her death. She had no children with either of them. Katherine Helmond she was active until Frank and Ava , reconstruction of Frank Sinatra’s stormy relationship with Ava Gardner, shot in 2018. Then, her illness progressed inexorably, so she decided to withdraw from it.