Lee Remick
Lee Ann Remick ( born December 14, 1935 in Quincy, Massachusetts, † July 2, 1991 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress.
Life and work
Lee Remick was born the daughter of a stage actress born. Early on, she moved with her family to New York, where she graduated from Miss Hewitt 's Classes and Ballet took lessons with Ruth Swoboda and Modern Dance with Charles Weidman. She had her stage debut in 1952 during a big show in a music circus tent in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. 1953 she starred on Broadway in the play Be Your Age and was represented as of this date regularly on stage. 1966 was her portrayal of the brave blind in Wait Until Dark (later made into a film starring Audrey Hepburn ) a great success, as well as her London stage debut ten years later in the role of the motel singer in Bus Stop ( film starring Marilyn Monroe).
More interesting than her movies in the 1970s TV adaptations are considered their stage successes, such as 1972 Summer and Smoke, 1973 The man who came to dinner. Even in television dramas Remick had success, such as 1974 as the mother of Winston Churchill, Jenny, Lady Churchill and General Eisenhower in 1979 as a chauffeur and lover in Ike.
Despite their cancer (liver and kidney ), which occurred in the 1980s, she worked tirelessly on the stage and on television, where she played in 1989 in the mini-series in 80 days around the world. She succumbed to her illness after the filming of the television film The young Catherine.
Lee Remick was married twice. In 1957 she married the director Bill Colleran, of which she was divorced in 1968. The couple had two children. His second wife, she was from 1970 until her death with the director and producer Kip Gowans married.
Filmography ( excerpt)
Awards and nominations
- Oscar nomination for Days of Wine and Roses.