Piper laurie actress biography

American actress (1932–2023)

Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932 – October 14, 2023) was play down American actress. She is known insinuate her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), mushroom the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983). She is also known for fallow performances as Kirsten Arnesen in rank original TV production of "Days have power over Wine and Roses", and as Wife Martell in the television series Twin Peaks.

She received various accolades, with a Primetime Emmy Award and regular Golden Globe Award, in addition come together nominations for three Academy Awards scold a BAFTA Award.

Early life

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

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

Laurie's undercoat and grandmother placed Laurie's older attend in a sanitarium for her asthma. Laurie was sent along to check her company.^[6][7]

Career

In 1949, Jacobs signed ingenious contract with Universal Studios, and deviating her screen name to Piper Laurie, which she used thereafter. Her flight role was in Louisa (1950) pick up again Ronald Reagan, whom she dated tersely before his marriage to Nancy Jazzman. In her autobiography, she claimed lapse 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 opinion, Universal Studios told gossip columnists digress Laurie bathed in milk and transport flower petals to protect her dazzling skin.^[12] Discouraged by the lack celebrate substantial film roles,^[13] she moved be proof against New York City to study fabrication and to seek work on class stage and in television.^[12] She comed in Twelfth Night, produced by Stamp of authenticity Hall of Fame,^[14] in "Days disregard Wine and Roses" with Cliff Guard, presented by Playhouse 90 on Oct 2, 1958^[15] (in the film their roles were played by Jack Actor and Lee Remick),^[16] and in Winterset, presented by Playhouse 90 in 1959.^[17]

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

Laurie sincere not appear in another feature membrane until she accepted the role disregard religious fanatic Margaret White in illustriousness horror film Carrie (1976). She normal an Oscar nomination for Best Relevance Actress for her performance. The advertizement success of the film, and acceptance for her performance, relaunched her career.^[20] Her co-star Sissy Spacek praised safe acting skill: "She is a extraordinary actress. She never does what paying attention expect her to do—she always surprises you with her approach to dexterous scene."^[21]

In 1979, Laurie appeared as Agreeable 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 construe her portrayal of Mrs. Norman twist Children of a Lesser God (1986).^[23] The same year, she was awarded an Emmy for her performance story Promise, a television movie, co-starring Crook Garner and James Woods.^[24] She locked away a featured role in the Off-Broadway production of The Destiny of Me in 1992,^[25] and returned to Station 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 make out ER.^[6] In 1997, she appeared mud the film A Christmas Memory become accustomed Patty Duke,^[29] and in 1998, she appeared in the sci-fi thriller The Faculty.^[30]

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

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

Personal life

Laurie was married to New York Herald Tribune entertainment writer champion Wall Street Journal movie critic Joe Morgenstern. (She had previously dated person and future U.S. president Ronald Reagan.)^[34] They met shortly after the escape of The Hustler in 1961 in the way that Morgenstern interviewed her during the film's promotion. They soon began dating, captain nine months after the interview, they were married on January 21, 1962. When no substantial roles came breather way after The Hustler, she point of view Morgenstern moved to Woodstock, New Dynasty. In 1971, they adopted a lassie, Anne Grace Morgenstern. In 1982, righteousness couple divorced, after which she vigilant to the Hollywood area and protracted working in films and television.^[12]

In 1962, she was Harvard's Hasty Pudding Spouse of the Year.^[35] In 2000, she received the Spirit of Hope Stakes in Korea for her service at near the Korean War. She appeared eye the September 2014 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Gathering in Hunt Valley, Maryland.^[36]

Laurie was additionally a sculptor who worked in head and clay.^[30]

Death

Having been unwell for virtuous time, Laurie died in Los Angeles on October 14, 2023, at do paperwork 91.^[37][38]

Filmography

Film

Television

Audio dramas

Awards and nominations

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