Theresa Saldana

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Theresa Saldana (1981)

Theresa Saldana (born August 20, 1954 in New York City , New York - † June 6, 2016 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .

Life and accomplishments

Saldana learned acting from Sanford Meisner as a teenager . She made her debut opposite Nancy Allen in the 1978 musical comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand by Robert Zemeckis . In the 1980 action film The Thugs of Brooklyn , she played the role of hairdresser Marsha , who had a relationship with a street gang fighting gang Sailors Tommy ( Jan-Michael Vincent ) connects. In Brian De Palma's comedy Home Movies (1980) , she starred alongside Nancy Allen and Kirk Douglas . In the film drama Like a Wild Bull (1980) by Martin Scorsese , she appeared in a supporting role as the wife of Joe Pesci , in the action thriller The Liquidator (1984) she played alongside Charles Bronson .

From 1992 to 1993 Saldana appeared in the television series The Police Chief . For this role she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1994, and in 1996 she won the NCLR Bravo Award . In 1997 she was in the television series All My Children , for which she was nominated for the 1998 ALMA Award .

attack

Saldana was stalked by a stalker in the early 1980s ; the then 46-year-old British native Arthur Richard Jackson. He was able to find out where the actress lived. On March 15, 1982, they met in front of Saldana's home in Los Angeles. After Jackson asked Saldana if she was Theresa Saldana, the actress said she was. Immediately afterwards, Jackson pulled out a four-inch hunting knife and stabbed the woman. The doctors later counted 10 puncture wounds. Although there were many eyewitnesses, Jeff Fenn Jackson was the first to knock the knife out of his hand. Saldana was taken to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center . By then she had lost much of her blood; her heart had also stopped beating . A four-hour emergency operation saved Saldana's life. The rehabilitation period took Saldana four months in hospital. In 1984 the TV movie Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story, starring Saldana, was shown on NBC.

Arthur Jackson spent 14 years in prison. In 1996 he was extradited to Great Britain . Here he should have stood trial for robbery and murder; an act he is said to have committed in 1966. But the pending trial was dropped in 1997 because of Jackson's incapacity . Jackson was then admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where he died of a heart attack in 2004 at the age of 68 .

After her recovery, Saldana founded the aid organization Victims for Victims . Among other things, this well-known case of stalking caused law changes in the United States in the 1990s.

Saldana died on June 6, 2016 of complications from pneumonia.

Filmography (selection)

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  1. ↑ Raging Bull star Theresa Saldana who also starred on TV's The Commish and was stabbed 10 times by a deranged fan in the 1980s dies at age 61
  2. ^ Biography in the IMDb
  3. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088349/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_26

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personal data
SURNAME Saldana, Theresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2016
Place of death Los Angeles , California, United States