Jill Clayburgh (April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010) was an American actress. She was a two-time Best Actress Academy Award nominee and won the Best Actress Award at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.Clayburgh made her Broadway debut in 1968 and went on to star in the original Broadway productions of the musicals The Rothschilds (1970) and Pippin (1972) In 1975, she starred in the TV movie Hustling, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination. Her role in the 1978 film An Unmarried Woman won her Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and also earned her Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. Her second Best Actress Oscar nomination was for the 1979 film Starting Over. In 1984, she returned to Broadway in the revival of the play Design for Living. She received a second Emmy nomination for her 2004 guest role in the drama series Nip/Tuck, and went on to star in the drama series Dirty Sexy Money (2007–09). Her other film roles included Silver Streak (1976), Semi-Tough (1977), La Luna (1979), First Monday in October (1981), Shy People (1987), Whispers in the Dark (1992) and Bridesmaids (2011).
April 30, 1944, New York City, New York, United States
Died
November 5, 2010, Lakeville, Salisbury, Connecticut, United States
Place Of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)
Profession
Actress, Soundtrack
Spouse
David Rabe (m. 1979–2010)
Children
Lily Rabe, Michael Rabe
TV Shows
Dirty Sexy Money, Search for Tomorrow, Everything's Relative, Leap of Faith, ABC Movie of the Week, Trinity (US)
Star Sign
Taurus
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Quote
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I guess people look at me and they think I'm a ladylike character, but it's not what I do best. I do best with characters who are coming apart at the seams.
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People think about me, "This wonderful lucky woman, she's got it all". But, gee, that's how I feel about Meryl Streep [New York Times interview, 1982].
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Topless is just topless. That's nothing. Why is it OK for men to go around topless when some of them have bigger boobs than many women?
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Fact
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Jill's father was from a well-established Jewish family (from Germany, Portugal, and France), with roots in the United States going back to the 1700s. Jill's paternal great-great-great-grandfather, Major Benjamin Nones, fought in the American Revolution. Jill's mother had English, distant Welsh, and remote Dutch, ancestry.
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She has no grave, upon her death she was cremated and her ashes are in the possession of family.
Suffered from chronic leukemia for 21 years before her death in 2010.
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She was among the first generation of 70s actresses - including Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, Diane Keaton, Carrie Snodgress and Marsha Mason - who was known for portraying characters sprung from the New Age feminism era -- smart independent, capable, but often times neurotic. Jill's film decline coincided with the conservative Reagan administration and a loss of interest in the feminist movement.
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The daughter of Albert and Julie Clayburgh, her father was an industrial textile salesman.
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She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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Friend of Meryl Streep. They first met in their roles as mothers.
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Longtime friend of Jennifer Salt. They met at Sarah Lawrence College where both were students.
During her independent woman film mold in the late 1970s, Jill turned down the role of Norma Rae (1979), which won Sally Field her first Oscar.
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Returned to Broadway in 2005 co-starring with Richard Thomas in "A Naked Girl on the Appian Way", in which she played a television cooking show maven. She was also making plans to co-star in a Broadway revival of "Barefoot in the Park" that was scheduled for February, 2006.
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Mother, Julia Clayburgh, was a former theatrical production secretary to David Merrick. Father, Albert Clayburgh, was an industrial textiles salesman.
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Attended the prestigious Brearley School in Manhattan.
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Daughter Lily Rabe, born in 1982, is an actress. In 2005, Lily garnered major attention in a Broadway production of "Steel Magnolias", playing the role of naive beautician "Annelle". Jill's son, Michael Rabe, was born in 1986.
$1.4 Million
