Actress Melinda Dillon died on Jan. 9 at the age of 83, her family confirmed, who have not communicated the cause of death. Dillon has been nominated for an Academy Award twice and has also been nominated for a Golden Globe and a Tony Award.
Melinda Ruth Dillon was born in Hope, Arkansas but raised in Alabama. You lived in Germany for four years. Her career began working in the wardrobe at a popular Chicago comedy club, where she landed her first job on the improv crew. She later moved to Broadway and in 1963 she was nominated for a Tony for ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?’.
In front of the camera he began making short films and episodes in television. Her first film was “April Fools” with Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve. In 1977 she will get the role for which she will be remembered. Steven Spielberg cast her as Jillian Guiler, a mother whose son is kidnapped, in “Encounters of the Third Kind.” That role of hers earned him his first Academy Award nomination.. The second would come in 1982 for Sydney Pollack’s ‘Absence of malice’ in which she played Teresa.
In his filmography we also find ‘Christmas Tales’, ‘The Prince of Tides’, ‘Where Love Resides’, ‘Magnolia’ and several appearances in television series. His latest works date back to 2007, when he appeared in an episode of ‘Heartland’ and in the film ‘Somewhere in Memory’, with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle. Dillon married actor Richard Libertini in 1963 and they divorced in 1978. They had one son.
Source: E Cartelera
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