Karen Black

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Karen Black (* 1. July 1939 as Karen Blanche Ziegler in Park Ridge , Illinois , † 8. August 2013 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American actress .

Life

Karen Blanche Ziegler was born in Park Ridge, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago , to engineer and businessman Norman Arthur Ziegler and Elsie Mary Reif, a writer of several award-winning children's novels . She had a brother, and her sister Gail Brown was also an actress. Her paternal grandfather was Arthur Charles Ziegler, a musician and concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . According to their biography, the Zieglers go back to southern German descent via Neukirch (Rottweil) to Dautmergen in the Zollernalb district . Her grandmother was Marble Eleanore Larsen, who was of Norwegian descent.

She ended her visit to Maine Township High School East prematurely. In the 1960s she worked as a waitress in New York City and attended Lee Strasberg's drama school . Her first major film role was in Big Boy, now you're gonna be a man! (1966, directed by Francis Ford Coppola ). She attracted more attention in Easy Rider (1969). Karen Black's breakthrough in the film business came in 1970 with Bob Rafelson's film Five Easy Pieces . In the drama, which is about a young man fleeing a successful career as a concert pianist, Black portrayed the lover of lead actor Jack Nicholson . A year later, she and Maureen Stapleton ( Airport ) were the best for her performance as Rayette Supporting Actress honored at the Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for an Oscar . In 1975 Black won another Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Jack Clayton's drama The Great Gatsby .

As an actress, Black was known for her look, which, according to Der Spiegel, stood for "coolness, longing and madness". From 1955 to 1962 she was married to Charles Black, from April 18, 1973 to October 1974 with the actor Robert Burton, with whom she was seen together in Trilogy of Terror . On July 4, 1975, she married actor and screenwriter LM Kit Carson . After their divorce, she married director and producer Stephen Eckelberry on September 27, 1987 . She was the mother of a son, the actor, screenwriter and producer Hunter Carson (born December 26, 1975) in her third marriage , and she also adopted a three-month-old girl (born 1987). Like her ex-husband, LM Kit Carson, she was an active member of Scientology .

In 2009, she sang a part of the song Dreams Come True Girl on the album Catacombs of Cass McCombs . Her last two films were the drama She Loves Me Not by Brian Jun and Jack Sanderson, and the mystery film In the Woods . Black died on August 8, 2013 at the age of 74 years in Santa Monica to cancer .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

  • 1971: Nominated for best supporting actress in Five Easy Pieces - A man seeks himself

Golden Globe

  • 1971: Best Supporting Actress in Five Easy Pieces - A man seeks himself
  • 1975: Best Supporting Actress in The Great Gatsby
  • 1976: Nominated in the category Best Actress (Drama) for her role in The Day of the Locust

Further

National Board of Review

  • 1971: Best Supporting Actress in Five Easy Pieces - A man seeks himself

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

  • 1970: Best Supporting Actress in Five Easy Pieces - A man seeks himself

Web links

Commons : Karen Black  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://records.ancestry.com/elsie_mary_reif_records.ashx?pid=177014381
  2. ^ Film Reference
  3. ^ Pedigree by Karen Blanche Ziegler
  4. ^ Rest in Peace - Karen Black , accessed August 10, 2013
  5. ↑ `Easy Rider` actress Karen Black dies at 74 ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.realbollywood.com
  6. ↑ Christian Buß : On the death of actress Karen Black: This look! Spiegel-Online, August 9, 2013
  7. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
  8. ^ A b The Morton Report: Karen Black and Death in Scientology, August 10, 2013
  9. ↑ The Fader: Cass McCombs - "Dreams Come True Girl" (Featuring Karen Black) Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2009/05/26/cass-mccombs-dreams-come-true-girl-featuring -karen-black / # ixzz2bYyCA4x6 ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated May 26, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thefader.com
  10. ↑ Welt Online : The woman between Fonda, Hopper and Nicholson from August 10, 2013
  11. ↑ Actress Karen Black dead at 74 ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , chicagotribune.com, accessed August 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chicagotribune.com
personal data
SURNAME Black, Karen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziegler, Karen Blanche (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Park Ridge , Illinois , United States
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2013
Place of death Santa Monica , California , United States