Ronee Blakley

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Ronee Blakley at Motor City Comic Con 2015

Ronee Blakley (born August 24, 1945 in Caldwell , Idaho ) is an American singer , songwriter , actress , film director and screenwriter .

Life

Ronee Blakley studied at Stanford University and the Juilliard School of Music . She then devoted herself to acting in Boston for a year before appearing as a musician in New York's Carnegie Hall in 1969 . The country singer released her first album Ronee Blakley in 1972 , with nine pieces of music she also excelled as a songwriter. In the same year, several of her songs appeared in Richard Compton's film Welcome Home, Soldier Boys . Praised by colleagues like Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan , their second album Welcome was released three years later by Jerry Wexler's Muscle Shoals Sound Studio . Also in 1975, the singer went on his Rolling Thunder Revue tour with Bob Dylan and made her debut as an actress in the episode film Nashville by Robert Altman . Blakley, who was hired to replace actress Susan Anspach , was supposed to only contribute songs to the film. In Altman's twelfth feature film, she interprets the Loretta Lynn- based character of Barbara Jean , a fragile country singer who threatens to break with fame on the edge of the US 200th anniversary celebration in Nashville , Tennessee . Nashville , viewed by critics as Altman's bitter satire of politics and the entertainment industry, won five nominations at the 1976 Academy Awards (1975 official count), including Best Picture and Director . One of the nominees was Ronee Blakley, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. While the American had previously received the National Board of Review award and two Golden Globe nominations, she had to admit defeat to Lee Grant ( shampoo ) at the Academy Awards . For the album on the film, she received a nomination for the US Grammy Music Prize together with Keith Carradine , Richard Baskin , Ben Raleigh , Richard Reicheg , Henry Gibson and Karen Black .

After Nashville , Ronee Blakley concentrated on acting, but could no longer build on the success of her very first film role. In 1978 she starred in the drama Renaldo and Clara on the side of Bob Dylan, who also took over the direction. In the same year followed a supporting role in Walter Hills Driver with Ryan O'Neal , Bruce Dern and Isabelle Adjani in the leading roles. In the early 1980s Blakley appeared in Nicholas Ray's last directorial work, the documentary Lightning Over Water (1980), and made guest appearances in series such as An Angel on Earth (1984), Trapper John, MD and Tales from the Darkside (both 1985). After playing the supporting role as the mother of Heather Langenkamp in Wes Craven's cult horror film Nightmare (1984), she wrote, produced and directed the 70-minute documentary I Played It for You (1985). After playing the supporting role in Paul Leder's thriller An All Too Clear Case (1990), Blakley disappeared from the television screen and the big screen. In 2010 she played alongside Xavier Samuel in the Australian horror film The Loved Ones - Pretty in Blood in front of the camera.

Ronee Blakley was married to the German director Wim Wenders from 1979 to 1981 . In 1988 she gave birth to their only daughter, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright. In 2006 her two music albums were re-released on CD in the US .

Discography

  • 1972: Ronee Blakley
  • 1975: Welcome
  • 2007: I Played It for You
  • 2008: Freespeak
  • 2008: Lightning Over Water
  • 2008: Ronee Blakley Live at the Mint
  • 2009: River Nile
  • 2009: Grief Holes
  • 2011: Live at the Bitter End
  • 2012: Djerassi Collection

Filmography (selection)

  • 1975: Nashville
  • 1977: Three Dangerous Ladies
  • 1977: I'm the Boss ( The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover )
  • 1978: Renaldo and Clara
  • 1978: Driver ( The Driver )
  • 1978: Vegas (TV series, cameo as Ginny Gordon in Your Appearance, Ginny )
  • 1978: The Cold Hand of Fate ( Desperate Women , TV)
  • 1980: The Tap-in ( The Baltimore Bullet )
  • 1980: Lightning over Water (documentary)
  • 1984: Nightmare - Elm Street ( A Nightmare On Elm Street )
  • 1984: An Angel on Earth - A Song of Little Luck (TV series)
  • 1987: Salem II - The Return ( A Return to Salem's Lot )
  • 1987: Student Confidential
  • 1987: Someone to Love ( Someone to Love )
  • 1990: An all too clear case ( Murder by Numbers )
  • 2009: The Loved Ones - Pretty in Blood (The Loved Ones)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ronee Blakley  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lloyd, Ann; Fuller, Graham; Desser, Arnold: The Illustrated who's who of the cinema . London: Orbis, 1983. ISBN 978-0-85613-521-7 , pp. 144-145.
  2. ↑ (Engl.) Discussion of music albums "Ronee Blakley" and "Welcome" ( Memento of the original dated 4 October 2009 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.odn.ne.jp
  3. ^ Jon Friedman, "Ronee Blakley on Singing with Dylan and Her New York Return," Speakeasy (WSJ Blog), Oct. 12, 2010.
  4. ^ Keep Things Moving with New Motion Images for The Loved Ones
personal data
SURNAME Blakley, Ronee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blakley, Ronee S .; Blakley, Roneé; Blakely, Ronee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Caldwell , Idaho , United States