Dillon was twice nominated for supporting actress Academy Awards: For “Close Encounters” and “Absence of Malice.”
Melinda Dillon, the Oscar-nominated actress who starred in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and played Ralphie’s high-strung mother in “A Christmas Story,” died last month. She was 83.that Dillon died in California on Jan. 9. A cause of death was not revealed.Born in Arkansas on Oct.
Melinda Dillon attends the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 35th anniversary screening of “A Christmas Story” at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Dec. 10, 2018, in Beverly Hills.However, she claimed the intense play made her “go crazy,” admitting she spent time in a psychiatric hospital. “I think it was the way I was living; the play was so long, and the actors’ union wouldn’t let us play the matinee,” she explained to the “We had to have a whole different cast for that, but I was called in to do it many, many times because the gal would get sick. I would do it three hours in the afternoon, then study with Lee Strasberg for two hours, and do the play three hours at night. Then, George Grizzard left to do ‘Hamlet,’ and a strange thing happened.
She portrayed Mother Parker in the 1983 holiday classic “A Christmas Story,” delivering the famous line as Ralphie wages his BB gun campaign: “You’ll shoot your eye out!”until they divorced in 1978. They have one son, Richard Jr.Melinda Dillon holds Cary Guffey in the 1977 film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”Dillon retired from acting 15 years ago. Her final film credit came in 2007 as Ginger Timpleman in “Reign Over Me.
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