Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie ( born January 22, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan; actually Rosetta Jacobs ) is an American actress.

Biography

Her parents were Polish immigrants an and his Russian-American wife. At the age of 6 years, she moved with them to Los Angeles. She attended a drama school and signed a contract with Universal Studios, who gave her the stage name Piper Laurie at the age of 17 years. Her first movie was in 1950 age protects against not love ( Louisa ), whose main role Ronald Reagan played.

She then played a few years starring in intellectually undemanding Universal films until she was unhappy in 1955 with the offered her roles in Hollywood, to New York. She played there in television performances of classical theater pieces with (among others in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare), which were broadcast live in program series such as The Hallmark Hall of Fame or Playhouse 90. In 1961 she returned to Hollywood in the Paul Newman film The Hustler ( The Hustler ) to play the female lead. For this role she was nominated for an Oscar as best actress.

She was still unhappy with the roles offered to her and she retired with her ​​husband Joe Morgenstern, whom she had married in 1962, to Woodstock, New York, back. 1971 their daughter Anne Grace was born. In 1976, she played the fanatically religious mother of the title character in Carrie - Satan ' youngest daughter, Brian De Palma's adaptation of the novel Carrie by Stephen King. Her performance was rewarded with another Oscar nomination, this time as Best Supporting Actress. 1981 divorced her and her husband. Piper Laurie moved to Southern California and worked as an actress again reinforced. A third Oscar nomination, again for Best Supporting Actress, she was awarded in 1987 for her role in Children of a Lesser God ( Children of a Lesser God).

In 1987 she won an Emmy for best supporting actress in a TV movie. In David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks, she played in 1989/90, the scheming Catherine Packard, equal to what you earned two Emmy nominations, both for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. She also won a Golden Globe Award for this role in 1991.

Piper Laurie lives in Southern California and continues to play roles in cinema and television.

Filmography

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