Melinda Dillon, star of Captain America and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, has passed away at the age of 83:
Melinda Dillon, a Tony and Oscar-nominated actress known for her work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, A Christmas Story, and Absence of Malice, has passed away at the age of 83. The news of her passing was announced via her family, revealing that she passed away on Monday, January 9th. The cause of death is currently unknown at this time.
Born on October 13, 1939 in Hope, Arkansas, Dillon studied at Chicago's Goodman School of Drama and worked as a coat check girl for The Second City, before eventually making her way onto the stage of the iconic improvisational group. Dillon quickly became known as an improvisational comedian and theatre actress.
"I was in Virginia Woolf, and I just went crazy; it was really that simple," she said in a 1976 interview with The New York Times."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. 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.
She would make her feature film debut a few years later with The April Fools. in 1976, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance as Memphis Sue in the Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory. A year later, she would be nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her appearance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Her second Oscar nomination would happen four years later, for her work in the drama Absence of Malice.
Her most well-known performance might be as Mother Parker in A Christmas Story, the 1983 film that has become a holiday classic in the decades since. Her later work included Harry and the Hendersons, Magnolia, The Twilight Zone, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Tracey Takes On..., Reign Over Me, and Heartland. She also portrayed Mrs. Rogers in the 1990 Captain America television movie.
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