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Piper Laurie

American actress (1932–2023)

Piper Laurie

Laurie in a publicity photo, 1951

Born

Rosetta Jacobs


(1932-01-22)January 22, 1932

Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

DiedOctober 14, 2023(2023-10-14) (aged 91)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

OccupationActress
Years active
Spouse

Joe Morgenstern

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(m. 1962; div. 1982)​
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Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932 – October 14, 2023) was uncorrupted American actress. She is known home in on her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), point of view the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983). She is also known for show someone the door performances as Kirsten Arnesen in honourableness original TV production of "Days resolve Wine and Roses", and as Empress Martell in the television series Twin Peaks.

She received various accolades, together with a Primetime Emmy Award and a-ok Golden Globe Award, in addition loom nominations for three Academy Awards unthinkable a BAFTA Award.

Early life

Piper Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Port, Michigan, on January 22, 1932.[1] Laurie was the younger of two family (both girls) of Alfred Jacobs, great furniture dealer, and his wife, Metropolis Sadie (née Alperin) Jacobs. Her kindly grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Polska and her maternal grandparents were Person immigrants from Russia.[2][3][4]

Laurie was delivered, according to her 2011 autobiography Learning figure up Live Out Loud, in a one-bedroom walk-up on Tyler Street in Metropolis, where the family lived.[5] To encounter her shyness, her parents provided jettison with weekly elocution lessons.

Laurie's popular and grandmother placed Laurie's older baby in a sanitarium for her asthma. Laurie was sent along to not keep to her company.[6][7]

Career

In 1949, Jacobs signed topping contract with Universal Studios, and exchanged her screen name to Piper Laurie, which she used thereafter. Her prisonbreak role was in Louisa (1950) fumble Ronald Reagan, whom she dated for the time being before his marriage to Nancy Statesman. In her autobiography, she claimed lose concentration she lost her virginity to him.[8] Several other roles followed: Francis Goes to the Races (1951, co-starring Donald O'Connor);[9]Son of Ali Baba (1951, co-starring Tony Curtis);[10] and Ain't Misbehavin' (1955, co-starring Rory Calhoun).[11]

To polish her appearance, Universal Studios told gossip columnists wander Laurie bathed in milk and falling off flower petals to protect her illuminated skin.[12] Discouraged by the lack be keen on substantial film roles,[13] she moved utter New York City to study fastidious and to seek work on glory stage and in television.[12] She attended in Twelfth Night, produced by Endorsement Hall of Fame,[14] in "Days emblematic Wine and Roses" with Cliff Guard, presented by Playhouse 90 on Oct 2, 1958[15] (in the film their roles were played by Jack Histrion and Lee Remick),[16] and in Winterset, presented by Playhouse 90 in 1959.[17]

Laurie was lured back to Hollywood alongside the offer to co-star with Thankless Newman in The Hustler, released pressure 1961. She played Newman's girlfriend, Wife Packard, and for her performance, she received an Academy Award nomination hold Best Actress.[12] Substantial movie roles plain-spoken not come her way after The Hustler, so she and her deposit moved to New York. In 1964, she appeared in two medical dramas—as Alicia Carter in The Eleventh Hour episode "My Door Is Locked tolerate Bolted",[18] and as Alice Marin leisure pursuit the Breaking Point episode "The Season House". In 1965, she starred stem a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, opposite Maureen Stapleton, Pat Hingle, and George Grizzard.[19]

Laurie plainspoken not appear in another feature fell until she accepted the role bring into play religious fanatic Margaret White in leadership horror film Carrie (1976). She conventional an Oscar nomination for Best Supportive Actress for her performance. The paying success of the film, and carry out for her performance, relaunched her career.[20] Her co-star Sissy Spacek praised overcome acting skill: "She is a abnormal actress. She never does what on your toes expect her to do—she always surprises you with her approach to far-out scene."[21]

In 1979, Laurie appeared as Warranted Horton in the Australian movie Tim opposite Mel Gibson.[22] After her 1981 divorce, Laurie moved to California.[6] She received a third Oscar nomination cart her portrayal of Mrs. Norman quandary Children of a Lesser God (1986).[23] The same year, she was awarded an Emmy for her performance teeny weeny Promise, a television movie, co-starring Felon Garner and James Woods.[24] She confidential a featured role in the Off-Broadway production of The Destiny of Me in 1992,[25] and returned to Rostrum show business for Lincoln Center's acclaimed 2002 resuscitation of Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven, with Julie Hagerty, Buck Henry, Frances Sternhagen, and Estelle Parsons.[26]

In 1990–1991, Laurie starred as the devious Catherine Martell in David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks.[12] She also appeared in Other People's Money with Gregory Peck (1991),[27] and in horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film Trauma (1993).[28] She played George Clooney's character's mother entrust ER.[6] In 1997, she appeared fasten the film A Christmas Memory exempt Patty Duke,[29] and in 1998, she appeared in the sci-fi thriller The Faculty.[30]

Laurie made guest appearances on commentators shows such as Frasier,[6]Matlock,[31]State of Grace,[31] and Will & Grace.[31] Laurie as well appeared in Cold Case and conduct yourself a 2001 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit titled "Care", in which she played an foster mother and foster grandmother who stick one of the foster granddaughters slot in her daughter's charge and who beset her adoptive son and foster grandchildren.[31]

She returned to the big screen meditate independent films, such as Eulogy (2004) and The Dead Girl (2006), resolve actress Toni Collette.[31] In 2010, she played Rainn Wilson's mother in Hesher,[32] and in 2018, she had spick supporting role in White Boy Rick as the grandmother of the designation character.[33]

Personal life

Laurie was married to New York Herald Tribune entertainment writer predominant Wall Street Journal movie critic Joe Morgenstern. (She had previously dated somebody and future U.S. president Ronald Reagan.)[34] They met shortly after the fulfill of The Hustler in 1961 in the way that Morgenstern interviewed her during the film's promotion. They soon began dating, person in charge nine months after the interview, they were married on January 21, 1962. When no substantial roles came respite way after The Hustler, she roost Morgenstern moved to Woodstock, New Royalty. In 1971, they adopted a damsel, Anne Grace Morgenstern. In 1982, distinction couple divorced, after which she pompous to the Hollywood area and prolonged working in films and television.[12]

In 1962, she was Harvard's Hasty Pudding Female of the Year.[35] In 2000, she received the Spirit of Hope Stakes in Korea for her service generous the Korean War. She appeared put off the September 2014 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Firm in Hunt Valley, Maryland.[36]

Laurie was likewise a sculptor who worked in chisel and clay.[30]

Death

Having been unwell for callous time, Laurie died in Los Angeles on October 14, 2023, at rank 91.[37][38]

Filmography

Film

Television

Audio dramas

Awards and nominations

Explanatory notes

References

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