Ronee Blakley
Ronee Blakley ( born August 24, 1945 in Caldwell, Idaho ) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, film director and screenwriter.
Life
Ronee Blakley studied at Stanford University and the Juilliard School of Music. Thereafter she devoted herself for a year of acting in Boston, before they appeared in 1969 as a musician in New York's Carnegie Hall. The country singer released her first album in 1972 Ronee Blakley, with its nine songs she excelled as a songwriter. In the same year several of their songs in Richard Compton's film Welcome Home, Soldier Boys appeared. Praised by colleagues like Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan, three years later released their second album Welcome by Jerry Wexler's Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. Also In 1975, the singer together with Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour and completed her debut as an actress in the episodic film Nashville by Robert Altman. Blakley, who was obliged to replace the actress Susan Anspach, had really only expected to contribute songs to the film. In Altman's twelfth feature film interprets function based on that Loretta Lynn figure of Barbara Jean, a fragile country singer that threatens to break at the edge of the U.S. 200 - year celebration in Nashville, Tennessee on stardom. Nashville, which was understood by critics as Altman's bitter satire about the politics and the entertainment industry, won at the Academy Awards in 1976 ( official census 1975) five nominations, including Best Picture and Director. Among the nominees was also Ronee Blakley, which was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Was the U.S. American was in advance still received the award from the National Board of Review and honored with two Golden Globe nominations, she had to admit defeat at the Academy Awards Lee Grant (Shampoo). For the album to the film, she got together with Keith Carradine, Richard Baskin, Ben Raleigh, Richard Reicheg, Henry Gibson and Karen Black was nominated for a U.S. Grammy Music Award.
After Nashville, Ronee Blakley is focused on acting, but was unable to repeat the success of her first film role. In 1978 she acted in the drama Renaldo and Clara on the side of Bob Dylan, who also directed the film. In the same year, a supporting role followed in Walter Hill's Driver Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, and Isabelle Adjani in the lead roles. In the early 1980s appeared Blakley in Nicholas Ray's last directorial effort, the documentary Lightning Over Water ( 1980) and graduated from guest appearances on shows such as Highway to Heaven (1984 ), Trapper John, MD or Tales from the Darkside (both 1985). After the supporting role as the mother of Heather Langenkamp in Wes Craven's cult venerated horror film Nightmare - Elm Street (1984 ), wrote, produced and they directed the 70 - minute documentary I Played It for You ( 1985). After a supporting role in Paul leather Thriller An overly clear case (1990 ) Blakley disappeared from the TV screen and the big screen. In 2010 she played alongside Xavier Samuel in the Australian horror film The Loved Ones - Pretty in Blood on camera.
Ronee Blakley was married from 1979 to 1981 with German director Wim Wenders. In 1988, she brought her only daughter Sarah Blakley -Cartwright to the world. In 2006, both her music albums have been released in the U.S. on CD.