Melinda Dillon

Melinda Dillon ( born October 13, 1939 in Hope, Arkansas ) is an American actress.

The character actress Melinda Dillon had their greatest theatrical success at the beginning of her career. She starred in the U.S. premiere on Broadway in Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, and received in 1963 for her performance a Tony Award nomination. Since 1969 she is also seen repeatedly in movies. For her film work, she received two Oscar nominations. Your first 1978 Close Encounters of the Third Kind and their second in 1981 for Absence of Malice.

Although she turns since her film debut until now regularly films, their movies in the five years between the Oscar-nominated This land was my land and Malice most successful.

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