1. Jill Clayburgh was an American actress known for her work in theater, television, and cinema.
41 Facts About Jill Clayburgh
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Jill Clayburgh received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her breakthrough role in Paul Mazursky's comedy drama An Unmarried Woman.
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Jill Clayburgh received a second consecutive Academy Award nomination for Starting Over as well as four Golden Globe nominations for her film performances.
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Jill Clayburgh's mother, Julia Louise, was an actress and theatrical production secretary for producer David Merrick.
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Jill Clayburgh's father was Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh, a manufacturing executive.
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Jill Clayburgh was raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where she attended the all-girls Brearley School.
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Jill Clayburgh then attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied religion, philosophy and literature, but ultimately decided to be an actress.
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Jill Clayburgh began acting as a student in summer stock and, after graduating, joined the Charles Street Repertory Theater in Boston, where she met another up-and-coming actor and future Academy Award-winning star, Al Pacino, in 1967.
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In 1968, Jill Clayburgh debuted off-Broadway in the double bill of Israel Horovitz's The Indian Wants the Bronx and It's Called the Sugar Plum, starring Pacino.
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Jill Clayburgh eventually made her Broadway debut in 1968 in The Sudden and Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson, co-starring Jack Klugman, which ran for 5 performances.
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Jill Clayburgh was in a TV pilot that did not sell, The Choice and appeared off Broadway in The Nest.
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In 1969, Jill Clayburgh made her screen debut in The Wedding Party, written and directed by Brian De Palma.
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The film focuses on a soon-to-be groom and his interactions with various relatives of his fiancee and members of the wedding party; Jill Clayburgh played the bride-to-be.
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Jill Clayburgh's co-stars included Robert De Niro, in one of his early film roles, and Jennifer Salt.
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Jill Clayburgh attracted attention when she appeared in the Broadway musical The Rothschilds which ran for 502 performances.
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Jill Clayburgh then went on to play Desdemona opposite James Earl Jones in the 1971 production of Othello in Los Angeles, and had another Broadway success with Pippin, which ran for 1,944 performances.
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Jill Clayburgh guest starred on Medical Center, Maude, and The Rockford Files.
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Jill Clayburgh hosted Saturday Night Live on February 28,1976 with musical guest, Leon Redbone.
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Jill Clayburgh later returned to Broadway for Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, which ran for 48 performances.
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Jill Clayburgh was praised for her performances in the TV movies Hustling, in which she played a prostitute, and The Art of Crime.
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Jill Clayburgh was cast as Carole Lombard in the 1976 biopic Gable and Lombard with James Brolin as Clark Gable.
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Jill Clayburgh starred in the acclaimed TV movie Griffin and Phoenix co-starring with Peter Falk.
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Notably, Jill Clayburgh developed the same type of cancer her character had in this film, succumbing to it in 2010.
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Jill Clayburgh played Barbara Jane Bookman, who has a subtle love triangle relationship with both Reynolds and Kristofferson's characters.
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She's charming," and The Washington Post enjoyed her chemistry with Reynolds: "Reynolds and Jill Clayburgh look wonderful together.
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Jill Clayburgh's breakthrough came in 1978 when she received the first of her two Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for Paul Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman.
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In what would be her career-defining role, Jill Clayburgh was cast as Erica, the courageous abandoned wife who struggles with her new 'single' identity after her stockbroker husband leaves her for a younger woman.
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She's letting us see and experience things that many actresses simply couldn't reveal" while The New York Times wrote, "Miss Jill Clayburgh is nothing less than extraordinary in what is the performance of the year to date.
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When Erica's life falls apart and her reactions go out of control, Jill Clayburgh's floating, not-quite-sure, not-quite-here quality is just right.
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Still, in 1979, Jill Clayburgh had a career peak after starring in two movies that garnered her widespread acclaim.
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Jill Clayburgh had wanted to play this role since 1972 when the play originally premiered on Broadway, but she lost the role to Madeline Kahn.
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Jill Clayburgh played a valium addict and documentarist in I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, written by David Rabe, her husband.
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Upset by the film's reception, Jill Clayburgh gave up cinema for three years, during which time she was busy bringing up her children.
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Alongside then-rising stars Raul Julia and Frank Langella, Clayburgh returned to Broadway for a revival of Noel Coward's Design for Living, directed by George C Scott, which ran for 245 performances.
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Jill Clayburgh is a woman struggling both to find herself and to discover where she belongs in this triangle.
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In more than one respect, Miss Jill Clayburgh grasps the deeper as well as the more superficially amusing aspects of her dilemma.
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Jill Clayburgh then played an investigator studying a child-abuse case in Unspeakable Acts.
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Gradually, Jill Clayburgh shifted into being more of a supporting character actress in the 1990s, taking on roles as diverse as an antagonistic judge in Trial: The Price of Passion and the interfering wife of Alan Alda's character in Whispers in the Dark.
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Jill Clayburgh returned to off-Broadway as a falsely convicted mother-of-two in Bob Balaban's production of The Exonerated with Richard Dreyfuss.
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Jill Clayburgh died at her home in Lakeville, Connecticut, on November 5,2010, after privately battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia for more than two decades.
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Jill Clayburgh married screenwriter and playwright David Rabe in 1979.