17 Facts About Bonnie Bedelia

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From 2001 to 2004, Bonnie Bedelia played the lead role in the Lifetime television drama series The Division.

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Bonnie Bedelia later starred as family matriarch Camille Braverman in the NBC drama series Parenthood.

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Bonnie Bedelia was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City, the daughter of Marian Ethel, a writer and editor, and Philip Harley Culkin, who was in public relations and 50 years old at the time.

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Bonnie Bedelia was born in a difficult financial period when her father's firm went bankrupt, and they lived in "a cold-water tenement flat".

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Bonnie Bedelia's mother died when she was 14 and her father, "who had always had ulcers", died shortly afterward.

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Bonnie Bedelia has two brothers, one of whom is actor Kit Culkin, and a sister, Candice Culkin.

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Bonnie Bedelia is the aunt of actors Macaulay, Kieran, and Rory Culkin.

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Bonnie Bedelia studied dance in her youth, at School of American Ballet.

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From 1961 to 1967, Bonnie Bedelia was a regular on the CBS soap opera Love of Life, portraying Sandy Porter.

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Bonnie Bedelia worked on Broadway, where she debuted supporting Patty Duke in 1962, in Isle of Children, and won a Theatre World Award for playing the lead of in My Sweet Charlie, in 1966.

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In 1984, Bonnie Bedelia received critical acclaim and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her starring role in Heart Like a Wheel, as drag racer Shirley Muldowney.

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Bonnie Bedelia appeared in two Stephen King screen adaptations: Salem's Lot and Needful Things.

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Bonnie Bedelia was nominated for Emmy Awards for her performance in the Showtime anthology series Fallen Angels and for the leading role in the made-for-television movie Locked in Silence.

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Bonnie Bedelia played a number of leading roles in television films and miniseries, such as Switched at Birth, A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story, Her Costly Affair, and Picnic.

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Bonnie Bedelia later guest-starred in Big Love and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and starred opposite Rue McClanahan and Olivia Newton-John in the 2008 sitcom Sordid Lives: The Series.

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Bonnie Bedelia starred in the NBC drama series Parenthood as the family matriarch, Camille Braverman.

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Bonnie Bedelia was married briefly to musician and screenwriter Jay Telfer and then wed actor Michael MacRae in 1995.