Jill Clayburgh

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Jill Clayburgh (1983)

Jill Clayburgh (born April 30, 1944 in New York City , New York - † November 5, 2010 in Lakeville , Connecticut ) was an American theater , film and television actress.

Life

Jill Clayburgh was born in 1944 to Albert Henry Clayburgh and his wife Julia (birth name: Door). Both parents were assimilated Jews. Her father was a wealthy industrialist and the son of opera singer Alma Clayburgh. Her mother had worked as a secretary for theater producer David Merrick .

Clayburgh grew up with a younger brother and an older stepbrother in Manhattan , where she attended Town School and the prestigious Brearly School private school . She then studied philosophy, religion and literature at Sarah Lawrence College . At the suggestion of a classmate, Clayburgh attended the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts during this time , where she received a small part in a production of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman . She graduated from college in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts .

After Clayburgh had made his first film experiences at college with the young Robert De Niro in Brian De Palma's independent production The Wedding Party (released in 1969), she took acting lessons from Uta Hagen and became a member of the Charles Playhouse in Boston . There she worked with the then unknown Al Pacino , whose partner she became, and returned with him to New York. Clayburgh debuted there in 1968 on Broadway in the unsuccessful plot The Sudden & Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson alongside Jack Klugman . Her leading roles in the musical The Rothschilds (1970) and Bob Fosse's comedy Pippin (1972), which together were performed nearly 2,500 times on Broadway, were more successful .

Parallel to her theater career, Clayburgh took regular engagements in American television and film in the early 1970s. She gained greater fame for the lead role of a brave, abused prostitute in Joseph Sargent's television film Bottom Line (1975), for which she received an Emmy nomination. A year later she starred as Carole Lombard in Sidney J. Furie's biopic Sag 'ja zur Liebe (1976), in which James Brolin played Clark Gable . As a result Clayburgh portrayed in the age of emancipation as successful as Ellen Burstyn , Carrie Snodgress and Marsha Mason repeated the modern woman in the struggle for recognition of their values in a man's world. “One of the things I like about movies is the adventure. I like going to different places and I like doing different scenes every day, ” said Clayburgh.

Clayburgh celebrated his international breakthrough as a film actress in 1978 with Paul Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman . In the drama she starred as a wealthy New Yorker wife and mother who, through a sudden divorce, called her entire existence into question. The part of Erica brought Clayburgh high praise from the critics and the Best Actor Award of the International Film Festival of Cannes and nominations for the Oscar and Golden Globe Award a. The tall blonde actress was equally successful with Alan J. Pakula's comedy Auf ein Neues (1979), in which she slipped into the role of a kindergarten teacher who, after bad experiences with men, is reluctant to enter into a relationship with Burt Reynolds . This achievement brought her again nominations for the Oscar and the Golden Globe.

After Bernardo Bertolucci's drama La Luna (1979), in which she played an opera singer who had an incestuous love affair with her drug addict son, and Ronald Neame's comedy A Monday in October (1981) with Walter Matthau , Clayburgh was no longer able to build on the earlier film success . In 1983 Costa-Gavras ' political drama Hanna K. , in which she played the title role - an American-Israeli lawyer who campaigns for a Palestinian, met criticism . After pro-Israeli groups labeled the film "anti-Israeli" , Clayburgh temporarily withdrew into private life. Only three years later did she return to the big screen with the melodrama Boundless Suffering of a Mother (1986). From the 1990s she appeared more often on US television, including as the mother of the heroine Ally McBeal (1999-2001) and as an unhappy patient in the series Nip / Tuck - Beauty Has Her Prize (2005), for which she received an Emmy Nomination received.

Jill Clayburgh was married to the playwright and film writer David Rabe since 1979 , with whom she had a son and a daughter and a stepson. Her daughter Lily Rabe (* 1982) also became an actress. Clayburgh died on November 5, 2010, at the age of 66, of chronic leukemia that she had lived with for 21 years.

Plays (selection)

  • 1968: The Sudden & Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson (Belasco Theater, New York; role: Dolly)
  • 1969: Calling in Crazy (Fortune Theater, New York)
  • 1970: The Nest (Mercury Theater, New York; role: Aimee)
  • 1970: The Rothschilds (Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York; role: Hannah Cohen)
  • 1971: Othello (Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles; role: Desdemona)
  • 1972: Pippin (Imperial Theater, New York; role: Catherine)
  • 1974: Jumpers (Billy Rose Theater, New York; role: Dotty)
  • 1984: Design For Living (Circle in the Square Theater, New York; role: Gilda)
  • 2002: The Exonerated (Theaters at 45 Bleecker / Bleecker Street Theater, New York; role: Sunny Jacobs)
  • 2005: A Naked Girl on the Appian Way (American Airlines Theater, New York; role: Bess Lapin)
  • 2006: Barefoot in the Park (Cort Theater, New York; role: Mrs. Banks)
  • 2006: The Busy World is Hushed (Playwrights Horizons, New York; role: Hannah)
  • 2006: The Clean House (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, New York; role: Virginia)

Filmography (selection)

  • 1969: The Wedding Party
  • 1972: Portnoy's Complaint
  • 1973: Webster is beyond belief (The Thief Who Came to Dinner)
  • 1974: The Terminal Man
  • 1975: bottom line (hustling)
  • 1976: Say Yes to Love (Gable and Lombard)
  • 1976: Love Without Hope (Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story)
  • 1976: Trans-America-Express (Silver Streak)
  • 1977: Two savvy professionals ( Semi-Tough ) - Director: Michael Ritchie
  • 1978: An Unmarried Woman
  • 1979: To another (Starting Over)
  • 1979: La Luna
  • 1980: It's My Turn - I call it love (It's My Turn)
  • 1981: A Monday in October (First Monday in October)
  • 1982: The Hunt for Life (I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can)
  • 1983: Hanna K.
  • 1986: Duel with Fate (Miles to Go ...)
  • 1986: Unlimited Suffering of a Mother (Where Are the Children?)
  • 1987: Shy People (Shy People)
  • 1989: Fearstalk (Fearstalk)
  • 1990: exit to paradise (Oltre l'oceano)
  • 1990: The Abyss of Life (Unspeakable Acts)
  • 1991: Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
  • 1992: Bitter Triumph (The Price of Passion)
  • 1992: Voices in the Dark (Whispers in the Dark)
  • 1992: Rich in Love
  • 1992: The Law of the Mafia (Le grand pardon II)
  • 1993: Firestorm over California (Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland)
  • 1994: Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders - Double Murder in Beverly Hills
  • 1994: Anorexic - For the Love of Nancy
  • 1995: kidnapped! - The Terrible Truth (The Face on the Milk Carton)
  • 1997: The long road of passion (Going All the Way)
  • 1997: Fools Rush In - heart over head (Fools Rush In)
  • 1997: Mother's Love - A woman fights for her child (When Innocence Is Lost)
  • 1997: Out of Control - Dangerous Desires (Out of Control)
  • 1997: Crowned and Dangerous
  • 1999-2001: Ally McBeal (TV series; four episodes)
  • 2003: Phenomenon II - A Wonderful Genius (Phenomenon II)
  • 2004: Practice - The Lawyers (TV series; three episodes)
  • 2004: Nip / Tuck - Beauty has its price (TV series; two episodes)
  • 2006: Krass (Running with Scissors)
  • 2007: Dirty Sexy Money (TV series)
  • 2010: Love and other Drugs - side effects included (Love & Other Drugs)
  • 2011: Bridal Alert (Bridesmaids)

Awards

  • 1975: Emmy nomination for best leading actress in a special program (drama / comedy) for the bottom line
  • 1978: Best Actress at the 31st Cannes International Film Festival for An Unmarried Woman
  • 1979: BAFTA nomination for Best Actress for An Unmarried Woman
  • 1979: Golden Apple Award
  • 1979: Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress (Drama) for An Unmarried Woman
  • 1979: Oscar nomination for Best Actress for An Unmarried Woman
  • 1980: Golden Globe nominations for best leading actress (drama) for La Luna and best leading actress (comedy / musical) for Auf ein Neues
  • 1980: Oscar nomination for Best Actress for Auf ein Neues
  • 1982: Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress (Comedy / Musical) for One Monday in October
  • 2005: Emmy nomination for best guest actress in a television series (drama) for Nip / Tuck - Beauty has its price

Web links

Commons : Jill Clayburgh  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Jill Clayburgh . In: Polner, Murray: American Jewish biographies . New York: Lakeville Press, 1982 (accessed via WBIS Online )
  2. ↑ a b c cf. Bergan, Ronald: Obituary: Jill Clayburgh . In: The Guardian , November 8, 2010, p. 34
  3. ↑ a b cf. Fox, Margalit: Jill Clayburgh Dies at 66; Starred in Feminist Roles at nytimes.com, November 6, 2010 (accessed November 6, 2010)
  4. ↑ cf. Jill Clayburgh . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 08/2004 from February 9, 2004 (hy), supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 03/2007 (accessed via Munzinger Online )
  5. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
personal data
SURNAME Clayburgh, Jill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 2010
Place of death Lakeville , Connecticut , United States