11 Facts About Kathleen Quinlan

Kathleen Denise Quinlan Abbott was born on November 19,1954 and is an American film and television actress.

Kathleen Quinlan is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1977 film of the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and her Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated role in the 1995 film Apollo 13, along with many roles in other feature films, television movies and series, in a career spanning almost five decades.

Kathleen Quinlan was born in Pasadena, California, the daughter of Josephine, a military supply supervisor, and Robert Quinlan, a television sports director, and raised in Mill Valley, California, where she attended Tamalpais High School, studied drama, and began her acting career.

Kathleen Quinlan was married to artist Warren Long in 1987.

Kathleen Quinlan met actor Bruce Abbott on the TV movie Trapped and they married on April 12,1994.

Kathleen Quinlan appeared in feature films like Lifeguard, Airport '77, The Promise, The Runner Stumbles, Sunday Lovers, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Sunset, Clara's Heart, and Trial by Jury.

Kathleen Quinlan featured in numerous TV movies as well, including Little Ladies of the Night, She's in the Army Now, Blackout, Trapped, Strays, Last Light, the adaptation of the novel In the Lake of the Woods, Blessings, and more.

Kathleen Quinlan played Jim Morrison's Celtic pagan consort Patricia Kennealy-Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors.

Kathleen Quinlan had a main role for three seasons on the series Family Law, along with recurring roles as the mother of the two brothers on Prison Break, and in Chicago Fire and Blue.

Kathleen Quinlan was in two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, plus episodes of many other shows, such as Diagnosis: Murder, Glee, and The Event.

Kathleen Quinlan was in the TV series House, the 2006 remake of the horror classic The Hills Have Eyes, the 2007 film Breach, Made of Honor, and played a senator in "Alliances," a 2011 episode of the science-fiction series Stargate Universe.