Pages

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Actress Jill Clayburgh Dies

The two time Oscar nominee Jill Clayburgh died Friday following a chronic leukemia, the New York Times. The 66-year struggle with the disease for more than two decades.

Clayburgh played matriarch Leticia Darling in Dirty Sexy Money, "the ABC series that aired for two seasons and ended last year. Fox also repeated on "Ally McBeal" as Ally's mother, Jeannie, and appeared in episodes of "Frasier," "The Practice" and "Nip / Tuck," but was best known for his films and his stage career.

She began her career with films and on Broadway in the 1960s and was nominated for an Oscar for his depictions of a New Yorker whose husband leaves her in "A free woman" and a teacher who begins a relationship with a recently divorced man in "Starting Over."

Clayburgh was seen in the drama "Love and Other Drugs", starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, opening November 24.

0 comments:

Post a Comment