Gilda Radner
Gilda Radner Susan ( born June 28, 1946 in Detroit, Michigan, † May 20, 1989 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress and comedienne who is best known for her five years of participation in the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live.
Life
Gilda Radner was born in 1946 as the daughter of a Jewish- American family in Detroit. Her parents were Herman and Henrietta Radner Dworkin. She had an older brother named Michael. Gilda Radner had a close bond with her father, a hotel manager, with whom she often visited Broadway performances in New York. There she met very hard when her father died of brain cancer when she was 14 years old. Presumably, this was the cause of their disease bulimia and anorexia.
After leaving school, she started in the 1960s to study at the University of Michigan. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, she began her media career as a weather girl at the college radio station WCBN. Your first acting experience she gained in the Off- Broadway musical Godspell piece. From 1973 to 1975 she worked with John Belushi, Richard Belzer, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and Brian Doyle - Murray in a comedy radio program that was sent about 600 U.S. radio stations. From 1975 to 1980 she was part of the original cast of Saturday Night Live, where she collaborated for five years in various skits and roles. In 1978 she received the Emmy Award.
On September 18, 1984 she married the actor Gene Wilder in the South of France and turned to him in 1986, the film wedding night in the haunted castle ( Haunted Honeymoon ).
Even during the filming of this movie, she complained of fatigue and pain in the legs. After several misdiagnoses finally 1986 ovarian cancer ( ovarian cancer) was found in October. After several chemotherapy and radiotherapy a temporary lessening of symptoms was observed, which led her to write her memoirs, titled It's Always Something. In it she described life with the disease and the fight against them. Due to the improvement she stepped back on at various events and even planned a comeback, but this was rejected, as in May 1988 the cancer came back and already metastasized. On May 17, 1989, she fell into a coma and died three days later at the age of 42 years. The funeral took place four days after her death.
On 27 June 2003 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard address.