Gilda Radner

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Gilda Radner with husband Gene Wilder in the film Wedding Night in the Haunted Castle (1986)

Gilda Susan Radner (born June 28, 1946 in Detroit , Michigan , † May 20, 1989 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress and comedian , who was best known for her five-year participation in the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live .

Life

Gilda Radner was born in Detroit in 1946 as the daughter of a Jewish-American family. Her parents were Herman Radner and Henrietta Dworkin. She had an older brother named Michael. Radner had a close relationship with her father, a hotel manager with whom she frequently attended Broadway performances in New York. She was hit hard when her father died of a brain tumor when she was 14 years old. Presumably this was the cause of her illnesses bulimia and anorexia .

After finishing school, she began studying at the University of Michigan in the 1960s . In Ann Arbor, Michigan , she began her media career as a weather announcer for the college radio station WCBN . Her first acting experience she gained in the off-Broadway - Musical piece of Godspell . From 1973 to 1975 she worked with John Belushi , Richard Belzer , Chevy Chase , Bill Murray and Brian Doyle-Murray on a comedy radio program that was broadcast on about 600 US radio stations. From 1975 to 1980 she was part of the original cast of the show Saturday Night Live , where she starred in various skits and roles for five years. In 1978 she received an Emmy Award for it .

Her first marriage was to the musician GE Smith. On September 18, 1984, she married the actor Gene Wilder in the south of France . In 1986, she turned to him and under his direction the film wedding night at the Haunting ( Haunted Honeymoon ), which was also its last film. Even while the film was being made, she complained of tiredness and pain in her legs. After several misdiagnoses, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in October 1986 . After chemotherapy and radiation therapies , a temporary decrease in the symptoms of the disease was noted, which led her to write her memoir entitled It's Always Something . In it she described life with her illness and the struggle against it.

Due to the supposed improvement, she appeared again at various events and planned her comeback. This had to be discarded when the cancer returned and metastasized in May 1988 . Radner fell into a coma on May 17, 1989 and died three days later at the age of 42. The funeral took place four days after her death. On June 27, 2003, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

Filmography

On TV

  • 1974: Jack: A Flash Fantasy
  • 1974: The Gift of Winter (voice)
  • 1974–1975: Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins (voice)
  • 1975–1980: Saturday Night Live
  • 1978: The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
  • 1978: Witch's Night Out (voice)
  • 1978: Muppet Show
  • 1979: Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda
  • 1980: The Jungle Olympics (voice)

In the cinema

Web links

Commons : Gilda Radner  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
personal data
SURNAME Radner, Gilda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radner, Gilda Susan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1989
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States