Bonnie Bedelia
Bonnie Bedelia ( born March 25, 1948 as Bonnie Bedelia Culkin in New York City, New York ) is an American actress.
Life
Bedelia grew up with three siblings, her brother Christopher is also an actor and father of Macaulay Culkin, Kieran Culkin and Rory Culkin. At the age of nine years, she appeared in her first theater production at North Jersey Playhouse. She graduated at George Balanchine trained as a ballet dancer at the New York City Ballet and studied acting at Hunter College.
In 1961, she played five years in the soap opera Love of Life. Between 1962 and 1966 she appeared in various roles on Broadway and as a guest star in TV series such as High Chaparral. In 1969 she made her feature film debut in the The Gypsy Moths with Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the lead roles. In the same year she married screenwriter Kenneth Luber and got the following year, their first child. In the 1970s, she appeared only rarely because of this on, among other things, in episodes of Bonanza and Hawkins.
After her divorce in 1980, she turned back to her acting career. In 1983 she had a starring role in ... and when the last tire bursts, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Better known in Germany she received as wife of John McClane in Die Hard and the sequel Die Hard 2 Since the 1990s, she mainly works as a TV actress and was nominated twice for an Emmy Award, among others. From 2001 to 2004 she played one of the lead roles in the series Lady Cops - Tough female.
Bedelia is married since 1995 to his third marriage to actor Michael McRae. From her first marriage to Kenneth Luber (1969-1980) she has two children.