1. Melinda Dillon is well-known for her role as Mother Parker in the holiday classic A Christmas Story.
15 Facts About Melinda Dillon
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Melinda Dillon admitted her talent but warned me that she was highly volatile and completely unpredictable as an actress.
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Melinda Dillon had found another actress whom he found much more suitable for Sonya.
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Melinda Dillon always did too much and yet not enough.
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Melinda Dillon was never the same twice in a given scene, even when she had found something wonderful last time.
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Melinda Dillon was always wanting to quit the cast or leave school or kill herself.
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Melinda Dillon worked in television, including a guest-starring role in 1969 on an episode of the TV series Bonanza titled "A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One".
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Melinda Dillon co-starred with David Carradine in the 1976 Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory and was nominated in the Best Female Acting Debut category of the Golden Globe for her role as Memphis Sue.
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Four years later, Melinda Dillon was again nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as a suicidal teacher in Absence of Malice in 1981, working again with Newman.
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Melinda Dillon was perhaps best known for her role as the mother of Ralphie and Randy in Bob Clark's 1983 movie A Christmas Story.
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Melinda Dillon was replaced by Julie Hagerty in the 2022 direct sequel A Christmas Story Christmas.
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Four years later, Melinda Dillon co-starred with John Lithgow in the Bigfoot comedy Harry and the Hendersons.
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Melinda Dillon continued to be active in stage and film throughout the 1990s, taking roles in the superhero film Captain America, the Barbra Streisand drama The Prince of Tides, the low-budget Lou Diamond Phillips thriller Sioux City, the comedy To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, and the drama How to Make an American Quilt.
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Melinda Dillon married actor Richard Libertini, with whom she had a son, in 1963.
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Melinda Dillon was a staffer on Democrat Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign.