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Jill Clayburgh, American actress (An Unmarried Woman, Ally McBeal, Dirty Sexy Money), died from chronic leukemia she was , 66


 Jill Clayburgh  was an American actress. She receivedAcademy Award nominations for her roles in An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over died from chronic leukemia she was , 66..

(April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010)

Clayburgh was born in New York City, the daughter of Julia Louise (née Dorr), a theatrical production secretary for David Merrick, and Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh, a manufacturing executive.[2][3][4] Her paternal grandmother was concert and opera singer Alma Lachenbruch Clayburgh.[5]
Clayburgh's father's family was Jewish and wealthy.[6][7] She was raised in a "fashionable" neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where she attended the prestigious Brearley School.[6] She then attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she decided that she wanted to be an actress.
Clayburgh married screenwriter and playwright David Rabe in 1979. They had one son, Michael Rabe and one daughter, actress Lily Rabe. She dated Al Pacino for five years (and briefly appeared with him in a November 1968 N.Y.P.D. episode, "Deadly Circle Of Violence").

Clayburgh joined the Charles Street Repertory Theater in Boston. She appeared in numerous Broadway productions in the 1960s and 1970s, including The Rothschilds and Pippin. Clayburgh made her screen debut in The Wedding Party, filmed in 1963 but not released until six years later, and gained attention with roles such as the love interest of Gene Wilder in the 1976 comedy-mystery Silver Streak, co-starringRichard Pryor.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for 1978's An Unmarried Woman, for which she won the "Best Actress Award" at the Cannes Film Festival, and for 1979's Starting Over, a comedy with Burt Reynolds. She also received strong notices for a dramatic performance in I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can.
Her other films include Portnoy's ComplaintGable and Lombard (in which she portrayed screen legend Carole Lombard), as a pro football team owner's daughter in Semi-Tough, as a mathematician in It's My Turn (in which she teaches the proof of the snake lemma), as a conservative Supreme Court justice in First Monday in October and in Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial La Luna, a role in which her character masturbates her son in an attempt to ease his withdrawal from heroin.
Television audiences know Clayburgh from numerous roles in series and movies including Law & OrderThe Practice and as Ally McBeal's mother. She received Emmy Award nominations for her work in the made-for-television movie Hustling in 1975 and for guest appearances in the series Nip/Tuck in 2005.
In 2006, she appeared on Broadway in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park with Patrick Wilson and Amanda Peet; she played Peet's mother, a role originated by Mildred Natwick. She also returned to the screen as a therapist's eccentric wife in the all-star ensemble dramedy Running With Scissors, an autobiographical tale of teenage angst and dysfunction based on the book by Augusten Burroughs. During 2007, Clayburgh appeared in the ABC television series Dirty Sexy Money, playing Letitia Darling.

Clayburgh lived with chronic lymphocytic leukemia for more than two decades before succumbing to the disease. She died at her home inLakeville, Connecticut, on November 5, 2010.[1] The movie Love and Other Drugs, was dedicated to her memory.

Filmography

YearFilmRoleNotes
1969The Wedding PartyJosephine
1971The Telephone BookBit Part(uncredited)[8]
1972Portnoy's ComplaintNaomi
1973The Thief Who Came to DinnerJackie
1974The Terminal ManAngela Black
1976Gable and LombardCarole Lombard
Griffin & Phoenix
Silver StreakHilly Burns
1977Semi-ToughBarbara Jane Bookman
1978An Unmarried WomanEricaCannes Film Festival Best Actress Award
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1979La LunaCaterina SilveriNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Starting OverMarilyn HolmbergNominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — American Movie Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1980It's My TurnKate Gunzinger
1981First Monday in OctoberRuth LoomisNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1982I'm Dancing as Fast as I CanBarbara Gordon
1983Hanna K.Hanna Kaufman
1986
Miles To GoMoira Browning
Where Are The Children?Nancy Holder Eldridge
1987Shy PeopleDiana Sullivan
1990Oltre l'oceanoEllenaka Beyond the Ocean (USA)
1991Pretty Hattie's Baby
1992Whispers in the DarkSarah Green
Le grand pardon IISally Whiteaka Day of Atonement
1993Naked in New YorkShirley, Jake's Mother
Rich in LoveHelen Odom
1997Going All the WayAlma Burns
Fools Rush InNan Whitman
2001Never AgainGrace
VallenRuthaka Falling
2006Running with ScissorsAgnes Finch
2007–2009Dirty Sexy MoneyLetitia DarlingTelevision
2010Love and Other DrugsMrs. Randall
2011BridesmaidsCompleted, and Clayburgh's last film.

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